Unlimited access to culture has reduced its value.
Rafael Conde Melguizo, principal researcher of the ECSIT group at the University of Design, Innovation and Technology (UDIT), has participated in the RTVE report "La vida en modo digital: así ha cambiado nuestro día a día con la expansión de internet"(Life in digital mode: how our daily lives have changed with the expansion of the internet). The journalistic work analyses how the internet has transformed everyday life and, in particular, cultural consumption habits.
In his speech, Conde Melguizo warns that unlimited access to cultural content has changed the dynamics of consumption, prioritising quantity over quality. "We accumulate infinite lists of music or series and, in many cases, we watch them at double speed in order to cover more, even if that means enjoying and understanding less", he points out.
This phenomenon, he explains, entails a significant risk: an accelerated cultural consumption that makes it difficult for culture to fulfil one of its essential social functions, that of encouraging personal and collective reflection, giving meaning to experience and the construction of personality.
The RTVE report brings together experts and professors from different Spanish universities to reflect on other impacts of digitalisation on everyday life, from communication habits to changes in the perception of time and leisure. The participation of UDIT's ECSIT group contributes to making visible the importance of studying these processes from the perspective of digital communication and social transformation.
The article features experts and professors from different universities who reflect on other aspects of the impact of the internet on our lives.