La Transformación de la Cultura

El mundo en el que vivimos ha cambiado radicalmente. Ya no se trata de fenomenos aislados, la forma como los jovenes "nativos" de lo digital interpretan y perciben el mundo es diferente, los objetos y el valor de estos es otro. En palabras del profesor Alejandro Otalora: "la velocidad de los objetos es hoy otra... el objeto de culto que, pretendiamos, durara muchos años está hoy replanteado, cada vez los cambios son más veloces, el desapego por lo material es evidente, la forma de pensar, por consiguiente, respecto a lo "material" es distinta a la nuestra"...
Somos "visitantes" en el mundo de lo digital y pretendemos que nuestros estudiantes respondan a planteamientos y posturas procedimentales basadas en ese punto de vista. Evidentemente los que no pertenecemos y no nos hemos puesto en la tarea de entender esta nueva visión somos nosotros, con el lastre de nuestros referentes (posiblemente ya caducos) y paradigmas de otras velocidades.

Ron Burnett en un reciente post de su blog comprueba la preocupación de los teóricos de las nuevas tecnologías al respecto. Primero, quién es Ron Burnett:

Ron Burnett is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, and How Images Think. He is also the editor of Explorations in Film Theory. Burnett is the President of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He is also the author of over 150 published articles and book chapters. Burnett was named Educator of the Year by the Canadian New Media Association in 2005 and received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for service to Canada and Canadians. He is an adjunct Professor at York University, and is one of the founders of Canadian Film Studies through a Journal that he developed and edited, Ciné-Tracts from 1976-1983.

Del post titulado "The Transformation of Culture" al cual hago referencia reproduzco el parrafo inicial. Para leer la totalidad del escrito y consultar el blog en su totalidad: aqui.

"I will call him Anthony. He arrived in Vancouver with a trunk full of DVD’s. He uses SMS and a variety of social networking tools to communicate with friends and family. He uses a small video camera to record his everyday life and edits the output on a laptop and then uploads the material onto the Web. He is adept at video games, though they are not an obsession. Cell phones are expensive, but he finds the money. This sounds familiar — an entire generation working creatively with Facebook and Vimeo and Youtube and Flckr. He loves old movies, hence the DVD’s. He knows more about films from the 1970’s and 1980’s than most film historians. He can quote dialogue from many films and reference specific shots with ease. He uses his expertise in editing to comment on the world and would prefer to show you a short video response to events than just talk about them."