Imaginaires d’Internet : Quelques mythes et utopies fondateurs

Abstract

The use of information technologies is considered as a social and cultural construct, its fixation depends on several layers of the imagination that generate discussions concerning and around these tools. Online discourse today is divided between love and fear, possession and resistance, or technophilia and technophobia. This rotation is due to the dualistic nature of the imaginary nature of this civilization. To understand the source of the pressures hidden in the metadiscourses that are associated with the historical appropriation of the web, we will begin by clarifying the key concepts that form the social imaginary (utopia, myth and ideology), and we will continue by mentioning the important events of the genesis of the Internet, its history and its concepts (some myths and utopias).