Illusion Of Communication Research Articles

What are the unintended patient safety consequences of healthcare technologies? A qualitative study among patients, carers and healthcare providers

ObjectiveTo identify patient-safety-related unintended consequences of healthcare technologies experienced by their primary users: patients, carers and healthcare providers (HCPs).DesignQualitative study based on data collected in online focus groups. Transcripts were...

“Digital trust” vs “Distrust” in the Formation of Social Relations and Practices of Glocal Society

Introduction. The individual’s application of established social practices in the digital environment faces certain difficulties caused by the wide opportunities for “honest” and “dishonest” behavior on the Internet. The high level of trust in digital technologies and the possibility of manipulating personal data, the desire to rely on “expert opinion” and unreliable information, the social need for communication and the illusion of communication in social networks, as well as other dilemmas of relationships in the digital world and operating with big data create a sense of uncertainty, instability and disunity in the perception of digital reality. The purpose of the article is to identify social and ethical aspects of trust phenomenon as an attitude of consciousness, obstacles to digital trust and identify ways to develop it. Materials and Methods. The interdisciplinary approach based on ethics of information technology, sociology, and communication theory allows us to analyze the formation of new social practices and interpret the development of a person’s value attitude to new realities of life. Research result. The following areas of actualization of the concept of “trust” in the digital world are identified as trust in data and algorithms, trust in “digital subject”, “Internet of trust” as a space of obligations and rules. The formation of the “Internet of trust” is associated with awareness of all social, moral and psychological problems associated with the process of combining online and offline environments in the social practice of an individual, where new forms of applying traditional standards of behavior should be found. Discussion and Conclusion. Postponing the rational risk analysis of digital interaction by an individual “for later” provokes the creation of situations that are critical for the individual’s well-being and security. The costs of digital trust are reduced security and creation of “traps” in public relations and social practices. Digital environment creates a situation of vulnerability of an individual, which encourages him to resort to possible measures of protection. In turn, the “Internet of trust” as a new digital reality is absolutely necessary for the effective functioning and further development of society.

The illusion of communication

The illusion of communication

Fractured Selves and the Illusion of Communication: Paul Auster's GHOSTS as a Reflection of the Hyperreal

In one of his last seminal essays, Jean Baudrillard writes, “Let us speak, then, of the world from which human beings have disappeared” (Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? 9). This estimati...

Embodied Integration

The assumption is made that God's revelation in the Bible is complementary to His revelation in nature, and that psychology is complementary to theology and all scientific areas of investigation. False integration is described in terms of platonic thinking, which causes scientific psychology to lead to nothingbutism and ratomorphism; humanistic psychology to the illusion of communication and mysticism with nobody there; and both to hopelessness. A levels of inquiry model is then proposed to show how the Bible, nature, psychology and science in general stand in relation to truth and how psychology, through a conduct of inquiry model, conducts its individual inquiry into that truth. Dogmatizers, dichotomizes and synthesizers are discussed, and certain correctives for psychology along an understanding-meaning-experience dimension are suggested. Finally, it is shown that with an uncontaminated conduct of inquiry across the levels of inquiry, psychology and Christianity can become substantially integrated in a way that promotes unity and includes wholeness of truth—and as we begin working out the comprehensiveness of that truth, as logical implications become lived-out experiential details, the integration becomes embodied.