The anthill with satellite dish. A study of socio-media transformations

Abstract

What is a trip? First, a displacement in space. The passage somewhere. Its duration always depends on two rational concepts: departure and arrival. The traveler (researcher) is someone who is suspended between two references, which mark the route. Traveling contains within itself the aspect of the separation between known and unknown, old and new. A short cut in time, from the previous world to the new world. A shortcut whose borders are doors and windows, metaphors for separation. The traveler is, above all, a foreigner, an intruder, a marginal observer, but attentive ...