Abstract
The spread of digital media has produced a new social realm, so that
everyone can freely exchange information. In this paper, I will try to investigate
how the digital media could change and create a new deliberative realm. This
paper emphasizes the necessity for bringing the social and the substantial features of the realm together in order to grasp the transformation of the discourse
space. In other words, the focus of analysis is the structural change in
the material and social system of circulated information.
This change has two sides. The first one is the expansion of controlling the
discourse space and social communication processes through that space. On the
contrary, the second one could include an impossibility to control any of them.
The transformation of the space of discourse in social communication processes
which was made by digital media has a historical significance. The reason
is that it creates “an appearance” of space, which Hanna Arendt pointed
out in her book - “The Human Condition” -. However, it might also bring the
possibility of creating another phenomenon, an infection of feeling and contagion
of affect. It is a process of activating affects.
Finally, this paper suggests that more research is needed to investigate the
factors of affection and time to be able to grasp the singularities and transformation
of the space of discourse.
