Cyberspace and symbolic violence

Abstract

The author discusses how violence and life itself have been made banal in the media's contents, giving special emphasis to content that is posted in the Internet. He explains how the World Wide Web, through the so-called cyberspace, makes children and young people who have free and unguided access to the virtual world even more vulnerable to all sorts of attacks. Such guidance is not found in the school, with the "educommunicator", nor in the family. There is no sustained upbringing in ethical and humanistic values. His concern is based on the fascination the new technologies cause, without a compensation of one living with other people as true citizens, in other words, mutual respect and acknowledging other people.