Communication and Digital Media:

silence as an excess in postmodernity

Abstract

In this research we intend to observe how the excessive use of digital media has produced a peculiar type of silence. This observation seeks to indicate how the increase in the potential of individuals to participate in the process of issuing information has created in the virtual environment, a kind of silence, where the superficial discourses of common sense have produced, less the transmission of information, and more the search. by expanding an individual audience. This observation starts from the hypothesis that individuals, when using digital media, especially social networks on the internet, seek much more to expand their private audience than to transmit information, thus producing a silence due to excess, and creating a reception crisis. This is a theoretical and exploratory research, based on a review of concepts and a bibliographic survey. This research will be based mainly on Marshall Mcluhan's media studies and Eni Orlandi's ideas. This combination should reveal a reflection on the contradictory forms that silence can take and how the media in Postmodernity have been used in a paradoxical way: instead of informing, they are creating a hiatus in the transmission of information, which ends up producing silence instead of clarification.