چکیده (انگلیسی):

This article comes from the adaptation and updating of a chapter of my doctoral thesis, where I questioned the roles of
journalists and artists in the so-called digital societies of the twenty-first century. This research is based on a premise
exposed by communications’ theorist Marshall McLuhan (1962, 1964), where he defined artists as the “antennae of the
race” and as the “early warning systems” of the societies they inhabit (Wolfe, 1968). For this reason, I choose the
journalistic and literary work of George Orwell as an example of an artist whose critical mind and sensibility allowed
him to see beyondall the dogma andall the propaganda thatclouded the reasoning of most of his contemporaries.