L’individualismo narrato. Le reti digitali come sfondo simbolico del soggetto moderno

To understand contemporary human beings, it is necessary to know the anthropological processes and models of inculturation, such as changing interests, stimuli and investments. The preliminary step to understanding the profound changes in Italian society is to update the list of problems and detect current key nodes; this forces us to find new interpretative tools. The aim of this article is to try to answer the following questions: how is the modern subject formed? How much easier is the construction of its autonomy? What contextual conditions and what cultural climate do we need to socialize as contemporary human beings

The new socialization: TV screen and touch technologies. Communicative behaviors of children 3-6 years old between ethical and methodological issues and educational strategies

Este articulo afronta algunas cuestiones claves respecto al grupo de edad menos explorado por la literatura científica, en el ámbito de la sociología y la de comunicación: los niños en edad preescolar (3-6 años). La reflexión se inicia en las abundantes sugerencias que surgen de una investigación aún en desarrollo, que se realiza en el Departamento de Comunicación e Investigación Social de la Universidad de Roma de La Sapienza, en colaboración con otras universidades y empresas italianas. En particular, este articulo tiene por objeto ofrecer unos escenarios del espacio comunicativo de los niños en edad preescolar y de sus consecuencias en términos de socialización y desarrollo cognitivo. Entre las tecnologías de comunicación, se han elegido las consideradas de mayor impacto en el estilo de vida de las familias. Por tanto, dichas tecnologías comprenden desde la televisión, hasta los nuevos dispositivos con pantallas táctiles (touch screen) como smartphones y tablets. Pero los problemas que se plantean en el camino que va desde la escuela en primer lugar a la experimentación de interfaces y ambientes digitales que hay que integrar en los contextos educativos, no son pocos. Es necesario tener en cuenta muchas cuestiones metodológicas, y sobre todo complejas cuestiones éticas en un universo tan sensible como el de los niños.The contribution deals with some key issues related to the age group that is least explored in sociological and communicative scientific literature, the pre-school children (3-6 years). The consideration starts from some stimulation provided by an ongoing research conducted at the Department of Communication and Social Research of “Sapienza”- University of Rome, in collaboration with other universities and Italian enterprises. In particular, the article aims to provide some scenarios related to communicative behaviours of preschool children and the repercussions in terms of socialization and cognitive development. Among the technologies of communication, we selected the ones we consider have the greatest impact on the lifestyle of families and, therefore, also of children: from television, up to the new devices based on touch screens such as smartphones and tablets. But the problems that arise before testing the interfaces and the digital environments to be integrated within the educational context, the school in primis, are many: it should be considered many issues related to methodology, but also the delicate ethical issues posed by a sensitive world such as that one of the early childhood

Identità e relazioni sociali. Dai popoli migranti alla cultura del Web 2.0

Nel saggio è una riflessione preliminare su cos'è da intendere per identità prima di individuare il ruolo che svolge la comunicazione non solo nel mantenere ma anche e soprattutto nel costruire identità e nel gestire relazioni, nel senso di crearle, mutarle o annullarle.The essay is a reflection about identity and role of communication on creating, mantaining and destroying social relations

Unibook

"The project that inspires this volume is the production and analysis of certain and stabilized data on the university system, in an interpretative framework presented by teachers and researchers who have long been engaged in studies and research on reformism and innovation processes in universities. The collected essays offer a mapping of the University and its various aspects: from system governance to the training programs and funding, from postgraduate training to internationalization, from the evaluation of scientific research to ""Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale"" and the Third Mission.

Unibook

"The project that inspires this volume is the production and analysis of certain and stabilized data on the university system, in an interpretative framework presented by teachers and researchers who have long been engaged in studies and research on reformism and innovation processes in universities. The collected essays offer a mapping of the University and its various aspects: from system governance to the training programs and funding, from postgraduate training to internationalization, from the evaluation of scientific research to ""Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale"" and the Third Mission.