New means of communication and reality
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New means of communication and realityReality is a tricky term when it gets confronted to new means of communication. When we try to find a relation between fiction and reality we realize that there is no such thing as a gap between them. Most of time the screen tries to imitate the real world. We can see it in films for example. The scenarist projects us in another world but most of time it has to be close to our reality. Everybody knows that the person who reads the script has to understand the character’s emotion to be touched. We have to see ourselves in a film to like it. That’s to say that a good film is not only about fiction but also about reality. In this sense we have to ask: Are the new means of communication trying to reproduce the real world? If they are there might be a danger, because we soon mix up fiction and reality. Are we soon going to live in a world in which everybody lives through their screen as many films predict it? We live between fiction and reality but which side do we tend to chose? What is reality? Is our Avatar more real than we are?
First of all we have to introduce the term fiction. What is fiction? As soon as we deal with this question, we see that it has many meanings. At one hand fiction is something that allows us to escape from the real world. That’s why children want to have computer games: they want to be someone else. When it comes to fiction, we have to think of imagination. The new means of communication and especially the fiction games allow us to imagine that we are somebody else. “Role games”, this is the term used to describe games in which the player can become somebody else. Who would want fiction to be real? It is a mean to escape and to get out of our own body. The most extreme example would be the type of games in which the player is no longer human. It shows that the person who is in front of the screen wants to be quite the opposite of what he used to be. Most of time we compare fiction to dreams. It is