Surviving in cyberspace: almost fifty without realizing it

Abstract

From the year 2000 to the present, Poiésis and its editor have continued to accumulate issues. With 48 semiannual editions, Poiésis was the first Latin American psychology journal to colonize cyberspace, and it has remained faithful to its readers.An archaeology of this medium would take us back to a setting in which digital reading was so new that tablets and e-ink devices did not yet exist. Nor did mobile phones offer the possibility of reading on them, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) failed to secure a niche in consumer electronics. Monitors still resembled rudimentary televisions, but at Poiésis the importance of the new space of writing was already clear: screens.Poiésis was on the path of Colombia’s digital reading pioneers. Reading is part of psychology’s story. Psychologists depend on reading and writing, and at times they practice them with excellence—like Mr. Freud, who, in the view of literary critic Harold Bloom, is among the 26 great writers of the Western canon.