What if Aristotle used Facebook? A friendship genealogy

Authors

  • Alex Primo Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2016.120923

Keywords:

digital technologies, friendship, social networks

Abstract

The debate over the impact of digital technologies in friendship relationships is everywhere: form the press to the pub tables. However, most of these arguments have an excessively passionate feeling and result in blind defenses or neo-luddite fears. If we are to perform a serious study on friendship in the digital age, we cannot be limited to technical aspects of the problem, nor to fulfilling all requirements for an ideal of friendship. It is necessary to regard the complexity of our time in the core of where friendship practices take place.

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Author Biography

  • Alex Primo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.
    Professor at the PostGraduate Programme in Communication and Information of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.

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2016-12-17

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What if Aristotle used Facebook? A friendship genealogy. RuMoRes, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 20, p. 46–67, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2016.120923. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.usp.br/Rumores/article/view/120923.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.