MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

• Main Authors: Elena Grednovskaya, Svetlana Reschikova, Kirill Rezvushkin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Trakia University 2016-12-01
• Series: Applied Researches in Technics, Technologies and Education
• Subjects: philosophy of education; media reality; media technology; media philosophy
• Online Access: https://sites.google.com/a/trakia-uni.bg/artte/articles/artte-vol-4-no-3/Elena%20Grednovskaya%2C%20Svetlana%20Reschikova%2C%20Kirill%20Rezvushkin.%20MEDIA%20TECHNOLOGIES%20IN%20TEACHING%20PHILOSOPHY.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

This article describes the experience of the Department of Philosophy of the South Ural State University (Russia) on the use of media technology in the teaching of philosophy. Media technologies are examined not simply as tools of knowledge translation to students, but they are comprehended as a media reality, which sometimes completely dissolve a human. Media philosophy which appeared as a new philosophical trend that meets the today realities, contemplates the nowadays situation of influence of mass communications on human’s world outlook, on his selfidentification, also on his body and feelings. The students are possessed to analyze a visual media material, because the foundation of media reality is a visual image.