In a short period of time, distance education was transformed from a marginal resource to the apple of the eye of public policies and business actions. Today one cannot ignore the impact that the introduction of e-learning has caused on our current ways of conceiving and practicing education and communication. Its most ardent defenders proclaim that information and communication technologies are engendering a new type of society and human being. However, one has the impression that the discourse of evident rupture with the past results not only from an exaggerated belief in technological resources but also from the impossibility of responding to the objections that could arise. In that sense, it is now urgent to invest in further theoretical studies, which will perhaps allow us to understand and qualify the ruptures that must occur and those that should be avoided. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the construction of conceptual tools that promote such an understanding.
e-learning; cybercitizen; modernity and technicism; human formation and democracy; isolated subject