Digital Culture, the anthropological dimension, and the educational problem

This essay explores the current state of communication by focussing in particular on two of its dimensions. They are: 1. The increasingly massive and pervasive spreading of forms of digital communication, and 2. Some of the consequences such situation has on the general mentality and on the way the human being is understood. Of such consequences, it is above all the confusion between online and offline, that is between the two different environments that human beings can inhabit, and the confusion between the analogue and the digital, which are mainly investigated from an ethical point of view. A specific educational project is required to address such problems: a project that the ethics of ICT can inspire and give grounds for.