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The author studies in this article influence of digital media on changes in present-day culture. He bases his view on the concept of technological determinism (H. Innis, M. McLuhan, J. Lohisse, L. A. White and others), which says that technology, largely represented by media, changes and determines the main path of evolution in culture. J. Lohisse believes that forms of media (such as spoken word, printed word or the Internet) have a great impact on shaping collective mentality (culture) and organisation of societ...

Communication on the Internet has brought a great number of changes in perception, imagination, thinking and learning in man. These changes are still spreading in the culture and society. One of the most important ones is surely disintegration of the so-called “linear code”. By the term “linear code” we mean structure of thinking and learning that is driven by succession of signs in thinking, in both learning and understanding of time and space. This sort of thinking and learning was shaped in the epoch of...