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    Philosophy and Media

    Introduction
    The main theme section of this issue, “Philosophy and Media”, brings a se-
    lection of papers based on presentations from the international symposium
    “Philosophy and Media” held on 20–23 September 2009 within the scientific-
    cultural event 18th Days of Frane Petrić on the island of Cres. This theme
    section makes a unit with the theme section of the same title published in
    Filozofska istraživanja (No. 120, Vol. 30 /2010/, Fasc. 4), with another selec-
    tion of papers (in Croatian) from the same conference.
    By reflecting the issue of media from a philosophical perspective – but, re-
    garding the issue at hand, with necessary leaps into other scientific fields and
    modes of reflection – we start from the fact that the power of conventional
    and electronic media has nowadays increased to the extent that they no longer
    figure as secondary social phenomena nor do they merely retrace social on-
    goings, but on the contrary play an important role in not only directing but
    also creating social processes. This refers to both “conventional” media (the
    newspaper, the radio and television) and the Internet, the latter of which is a
    paradigmatic example of the newly arisen situation. Some other “new” and
    “old” means of informing and communicating should however also be in-
    cluded in the definition of the concept of media.
    If we take into consideration, as one of the possible strongholds for the
    analysis of the situation, the statement about the contemporary society as
    “the society of the spectacle”, it becomes almost irrelevant whether empha-
    sis is put on the entertainment or the infotainment element of the society
    today, because it has become clear that precisely the role of the media is the
    main instigator of the “spectacular” (re)creation process of the lifeworld.
    The question thereby posed is not only of the mutual relationship between
    the media and social ongoings, but also of the very constitution of man, who
    changes under the influence of the media both as a whole and in his/her
    constituent parts. In that sense, philosophy cannot ignore recent influences
    of up-to-date media on both human lives and contemporary philosophical
    thought.
    The articles published here, despite the common grounds upon which they
    are based, also reflect the divergence of media related issues as well as the
    divergence of approaches to these issues: from the attempt of establishing
    “philosophy of media” as a philosophical discipline and reaching into the
    philosophical tradition in order to respond to current issues of the “media
    world”, through repercussion of current media processes on the socio-politi-
    cal sphere, to the influence of the (new) media on science and scientific sys-
    tem as well as religion and theology.
    SYNTHESIS PHILOSOPHICA
    50 (2/2010) pp. (199–200) 200 H. Jurić, Introduction

    We believe that those readers who find this subject interesting will come upon
    numerous and enriching insights which present a counterweight to the domi-
    nant superficial discourse on the media, especially the superficial media prac-
    tice, i.e. the endless process of auto-reproduction of the media as the produc-
    tion of a void world and the void itself.

    Hrvoje Jurić

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