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    The Dramatic Writing of Oriana Fallaci Between Journalism and Literature

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    This paper focuses on the famous ā€œFallaci interviewsā€, which are an example of what has been defined as ā€œjournalitā€ (Krim 1970), i.e., a non-fictional practice that is based on real events but still uses the resources of fiction and is permeated by real inventions and creative licenses (Castellana 2021; Mongelli 2015). Fallaci is a skilled playwright who knows how to ā€œwrite the journalistic piece by the means of fiction and the story by the means of journalismā€ (AricĆ² 2010) to increase the dramatic character of her writings. But she also loves to show herself as a self-made woman always ready to go ā€œon stageā€ (Scheer 1981: 92): the writer is a sort of ā€œfictional witnessā€, a testimonial character that plays a privileged role through her writing and her presence, approaching the genre of autofiction (Doubrovsky 1977; Grell 2014; Marchese 2014, 2019) and, in some ways, of the testimonio novelizado (Beverley 1992, 1993; Jara and Vidal 1986). For these reasons, Fallaci can be put on an ideal guideline that goes from Malaparte to Pasolini (and, today, maybe to Roberto Saviano) (Altamura 2019). Like the ā€œcorsaroā€, she is convinced that writing is a creative, critical, ā€œinstinctiveā€ practice capable of undermining power, which is by its nature ambiguous and obscurantist. But, in our view, she has neither the expressiveness of Malaparte, nor the civil tension and poetic consistency of Pasolini. Her dimension seems to refer rather to the category of ā€œmidcultā€ (Macdonald 2018), i.e. a cultural typology based on the late or postmodern re-use of ideas, resources, languages from high culture, but not always endowed with intrinsic originality and innovativeness and able to express universal values. Net of all this, Fallaciā€™s writing remains an admirable example of how it is possible (even at the cost of some contradictions) to combine the ethical values ā€‹ā€‹of journalistic-literary testimony with the codes of mass spectacularity, guaranteeing a productivity which, however, does not limit the quality standard of the work

    Risemantizzare il concetto di degrado ambientale: la ā€˜Terra dei Fuochiā€™ da Gomorra a oggi

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    The expression ā€œLand of firesā€ has appeared since 2003 in a Legambiente report on eco-mafias (Legambiente, 2003), but in Gomorra it is reused by Saviano for a connotative purpose to allegorize the situation of profound degradation affecting a part of the territory between Naples and Caserta, where the clans burn buried waste, producing highly toxic fires. Afterwards, the phrase had immediate resonance thanks to the global success achieved by the best seller, becoming common knowledge due to its great communicative effectiveness and its media-journalistic pervasiveness (there are many blogs, websites, youtube channels, newspaper pages and social platforms that have been dedicated over the years to the criminal and cultural phenomenon connected to it). However, this good fortune has contributed to re-semantising the term "Land of fires", which over time has seen its referent change, becoming a dynamic and ever-changing rhetorical-discursive construction, a metaphorical and allusive condition with labile and sometimes ambiguous boundaries that some have defined as a ā€œporous symbolā€ (Alliegro, 2017).In fact, the expression today no longer designates a physical space or a defined geographical-territorial perimeter, but rather a mental area, a shared psychological horizon, a conventionally "peripheral" dimension of identity in which some communities or local groups reflect themselves. The formation of this (self-)representation device (which has been compared to a real "disaster brand") (Alliegro, 2017) is however fueled by the profound "coalescence", typical of the Italian scenario, between the mechanisms of ā€œmediacracyā€ and the cultural production ones (see Bodrunova, 2010): Saviano himself is aware of this compromise as in a recent interview with the "Corriere della Sera" has said: "So much attention and an incredible emotional investment they didn't change things much [...] At a certain point people confused the land of fires with the emergency of rubbish in Naples. But it was a virtuous short circuit because the Neapolitan emergency drew attention to the land of firesā€ (Saviano, Sforzini 2022)

    La conoscenza come ars combinatoria: internet e la questione del ā€˜filtraggio del sapereā€™ secondo Umberto Eco

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    According to Umberto Eco, the spread of digital technologies and the Internet is an issue concerning the humanities because it involves the structure of our knowledge. The web is a medium where many writings proliferate chaotically, without a hierarchy and with no respect for authority. The result is an open and rhizomatic space similar to a big library, as Eco puts it. Moreover, according to Eco, the web needs to be filtered because of its exorbitant amount of data which cannot be interpreted: it is like ā€˜Funes el memoriosoā€™, the title character of Borgesā€™s novel, who had a prodigious memory but was hopelessly stupid

    Passar la vita a Diol Kadd: lā€™Africa disambientata di Gianni Celati

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    Passar la vita a Diol Kadd di Gianni Celati eĢ€ unā€™opera doppia e ā€˜transmedialeā€™, consistente in un libro e in un film, che racconta per parole e per immagini lā€™esperienza pluriennale dello scrittore in un villaggio senegalese dove, dal 2003 al 2006, si reca piuĢ€ volte per preparare la messa in scena di una commedia di Aristofane, il Pluto. La rivisitazione, compiuta in collaborazione con un attore locale e la partecipazione attiva dellā€™intera comunitaĢ€, saraĢ€ filmata e proiettata su uno schermo montato nella savana, secondo un criterio di lavoro collettivo che richiama la logica dellā€™artivismo. Celati narra questa impresa ā€“ portata a termine attraverso una serie di complicazioni e incidenti, fuori e dentro la ā€˜corniceā€™ della riduzione teatrale ā€“ istituendo una modalitaĢ€ di racconto che non si configura neĢ come documentaristica neĢ come odeporica. In ognuna delle sue ā€˜metaĢ€ā€™, Passar la vita a Diol Kadd eĢ€ un racconto di osservazione della vita che scorre, una scrittura di contemplazione che aggira i meccanismi distorsivi della fiction affrancandosi dai miti, i limiti e le distorsioni dellā€™etnocentrismo di matrice occidentale

    La Dieta Mediale nell'UniversitaĢ€ Barese. Indagine esplorativa sui consumi mediali, culturali e tecnologici di studenti e docenti universitari di Bari

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    Quanto eĢ€ diffuso lā€™uso di media e tecnologie allā€™interno dellā€™UniversitaĢ€ barese? Quanto contribuiscono alla diffusione della cultura? E quanto si integrano nella dieta mediale di studenti e docenti universitari? Didattica universitaria e Media Education sono punti nevralgici di attenzione progettuale nello scenario aperto dalla ricerca ā€œLa Dieta mediale nellā€™UniversitaĢ€ bareseā€, incentrata sulle pratiche di appropriazione, consumo, fruizione e creazione mediale degli studenti e dei docenti universitari. Attraverso i dispositivi dellā€™intervista semi-strutturata rivolta ai docenti universitari e del questionario somministrato agli studenti (frequentanti, durante lā€™anno accademico 2014-2015, lā€™UniversitaĢ€ degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro e il Politecnico di Bari), lā€™indagine ha permesso di far emergere una rappresentazione dei consumi culturali e mediali universitari, oltre che dellā€™impatto delle risorse e dei vincoli del contesto sulle attivitaĢ€ di ricerca e di didattica universitaria. Il fine del volume non eĢ€ solo descrittivo, ma trasformativo, in quanto offre una riflessione utile per orientare la progettazione di attivitaĢ€ didattiche e di ricerca multimediali e supportate dalle tecnologie, per incentivare nuovi percorsi di formazione, per favorire il dialogo e il confronto intergenerazionale attraverso processi di insegnamento-apprendimento piuĢ€ flessibili. Dalla ricerca condotta emerge anche la necessitaĢ€ di effettuare una mappatura piuĢ€ capillare delle diverse realtaĢ€ universitarie, utili ad orientare investimenti e processi di decision making che vadano a supportare contesti in cui emergono maggiori criticitaĢ€, sia in termini di risorse materiali e strumentali, che in termini di competenza metodologica e didattica mirata nellā€™utilizzo di media e tecnologie. Il volume si rivolge a ricercatori, docenti, studenti, decision makers e quanti hanno interesse per i temi della media literacy, dellā€™innovazione e della qualitaĢ€ in ambito universitario
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