
handle: 10216/117930
ES: Analizamos la teoría formal de las redes y los nuevos medios digitales desde la perspectiva de la teoría mimética. Se enfatiza que la forma espacial de los nuevos medios se caracteriza por funciones de distribución que son leyes de poder. Demostramos que esta forma espacial puede derivarse de la presencia del deseo mimético en las redes sociales digitales. Finalmente, mostramos que la teoría de redes permite la representación del mecanismo de chivo expiatorio tal como fue analizado por René Girard.
We analyse the formal theory of networks and the new digital media from the perspective of mimetic theory. It is emphasised that the spatial form of the new media is characterised by distribution functions that are power laws. We show that this spatial form can be derived from the presence of mimetic desire in digital social networks. Finally, we show that network theory allows the representation of the scapegoat mechanism as it was analysed by René Girard.
Ciências da comunicação, Communication sciences
Ciências da comunicação, Communication sciences
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