Simulacra in social media platforms, from Context Collapse to Reality Collapse

Abstract

This study aims to know the mechanism by which collapsing contexts on social media platforms contribute to the construction of the Simulacra, and has sought to do so by clarifying that interactive practices at the level of social media platforms have made it a new resource for language symbols. , in which the production of meaning has become invoked by the contexts of the digital environment.

which led to the process of context collapse under the weight of technological determinism. Digital linguistic resources have also led to the semiotic expansion of the semantic field, as the realization of reality has become dependent on the interpretation of meanings produced within social networking sites, themselves subject to a process of negotiation between users, which led to the process of reality collapse into Simulacra that became reality