Contacting dead people online: The hidden Victorian rationality behind using Internet for paranormal activities.

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  • David Ramírez Plascencia Universidad de Guadalajara

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Media, Victorians, Internet, The paranormal, folklore

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The aim of this article is to find the rational support behind the belief in the paranormal, by which it is possible to use great scientific devices like computers or smart phones to contact dead people. This is especially interesting, because in this case we are dealing with the fact that as the same way of Victorians, people use technical advances to strengthen their convictions on the existence of life beyond life. Unexpectedly, science has not undermined supernatural thought but it has served for reinforcing it. It looks like the more advanced the civilization the more possibilities it turns into the search of alternative and extravagant conceptions of the world. 

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David Ramírez Plascencia, Universidad de Guadalajara

Docente y articulista mexicano (Guadalajara, 1980). Licenciado en derecho y maestro en ciencia política por la Universidad de Guadalajara, Doctor en Ciencias Sociales por El Colegio de Jalisco. Es politólogo, docente en materias sobre las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación y su relación con la sociedad. Fue Coordinador de la Maestría en Gestión de Servicios Públicos en Ambientes Virtuales en la Universidad de Guadalajara, fundador de Paakat: Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad, y fundador del Observatorio de Gobierno Electrónico de UDGVirtual. Ha publicado ensayos y artículos sobre tecnología y sociedad. Actualmente es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) y trabaja como profesor investigador en la Universidad de Guadalajara.

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2016-01-14

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