Antiquity in Social Media: The Case of the ‘Filmweb’ Portal and Its Users

Abstract

Antiquity in Social Media: The Case of the ‘Filmweb’ Portal and Its Users The paper analyses the character of classical receptions and the proposed methodology of its analysys within the context of the new media. An example of a popular Polish website Filmweb, devoted to cinema, is used to present the case postulating new interdisciplinary methodology, necessary for the research on the receptions of antiquity in the new media.

Keywords

• media studies
• classical tradition
• classical receptions
• New Media
• Web 2.0.
• Filmweb