Cyberculture: transformations of the mental cave through technologies and interfaces

Abstract

Virtuality occupies a geographically dispersed area throughout the world. Those who adhere to it through text, image and audio interfaces are inserted into cavernous forms that allow them to be where bodies live and connected to the cloud. In an economy of dematerialized goods and services, the emergence of the podcast and its hybrid, the video podcast, are potentiating the distribution of marketable content in the internet ecosystem where stories are told and consumed. The available technologies and interfaces are transforming the social construction of users, making the interaction between content producers and consumers increasingly more participatory, moving from screen to screen, from one platform to another, for sharing information in different formats. The investigation presented here emphasizes the participatory culture encouraged by the hosts-facilitators of the video podcast, who give to the great laboratory of ideas that is the Internet, epistemic practices that enhance the community-communication-knowledge triad.