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Santeramo e dintorni - un'alternativa preistorica
Full text linkItNella prospettiva di un'origine indoeuropea preistorica della più antica toponimia delle Puglie e del Salento (esemplificata da Mattinata e da Veritate di Parabita), si propongono etimologie indoeuropee (attraverso la fonologia diacronica dauno-peucezio-messapica, come Blēră e Lŭpătĭă) per i macrotoponimi Bitonto, Laterza, Lucrano, Ordona, Santeramo, per gli idronimi Japo, Lato e Talvo (con gli storici Travato e Lacumetano) nonché per i microtoponimi Lupino/Lupito, Palarosa, Pantarosa, Parata, Ramo, Sandiano, Sava e, almeno come possibilità teorica, formazioni di apparenza schiettamente (neo)latina quali Cavallerizza, Cavatello, Colonna, Denora, Luparelli (nell'eventualità che siano reinterpretazioni di nomi prelatini).EnLike other place-names of plausible Daunian, Peucetian or Messapian tradition as Mattinàta (Foggia) < Proto-Indo-European *H2/4mĕh1-tĭ-h3n-ŏºh1?iăh2/4-tắ·h2/4 "roads through the tilled ridge" and Veritàte (by Paràbita [Lecce]) < Proto-Indo-European *Ṷĕr-ĭtŏºh1?iăh2/4-tĭ-s "runway", Paràta and Travàto (in Santèramo in Colle [Bari]) can be reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European place-names *Pŏr-ŏºh1iăh2/4-tắ·h2/4 "passage ways" resp. *Trŏb-ŏºh1?iăh2/4-tŏ-m "passage through dwellings"; Santèramo itself (not far from Peucetian Lŭpătĭă and Blēră) can receive a regular Proto-Indo-European etymology *Sŏm-tŭºh1ĕrǝ1-mŏ-s "mild and quiet" or *H1s-ŏ-nt-ŏºh1ĕrǝ1-mŏ-s "very quiet") and the same holds true for other place-names nearby, despite the strong Latin / Romance look of some of them
Serialità memetica e costruzione dell'immaginario: il meme come dispositivo di world-building politico pop = Memetic Seriality and Political Imaginaries: The Meme as a World-Building Device
No full textIn recent years, political communication has been reshaped by the interplay between participatory culture, algorithmic logics, and the languages of pop culture. Digital platforms - especially TikTok - have turned political discourse into an iterative and collective practice, where visibility depends on the capacity of content to be reproduced, remixed, and recognized. This article examines how memetic seriality transforms contemporary political communication into an affective world-building device, capable of generating belonging and collective memory through repetition. Adopting a theoretical-interpretative approach supported by an empirical analysis of the case Io sono Giorgia (2019–2025), the study shows how algorithmic reiteration functions as a symbolic infrastructure of the digital public sphere. Memetic seriality thus emerges as a grammar of cultural and affective power: a system in which recursion replaces narration and visibility becomes the primary form of political legitimation
La doxasfera digitale e le issue serializzate = The digital doxasphere and serialized issues
No full textThis article reinterprets the doxasphere by emphasizing how connected digital media reorganize political communication through seriality. Building on Bourdieu's notion of public opinion as a field of forces, the model is updated to account for transformations affecting decision-makers, pressure groups, media systems, and connected multitudes. Digital platforms intensify disintermediated communication and reinforce algorithmic visibility, enabling political actors and influencers to structure public discourse through serialized narrative formats (defined by repetitions and variations). Seriality becomes a strategic device: issues are not only circulated but serialized, unfolding as sequences of episodes that reiterate frames, emotions, and antagonisms. This process sustains attention over time, amplifies polarization, and converts conflicts into recurring media events shaped by platform logics. Hybridized media ecosystems reproduce these serial patterns, while prosumer practices continuously feed new iterations of the same controversies. The article argues that serialized issues now constitute the primary organizational form of political communication in the connected doxasphere, where actors compete to impose meaning within an environment governed by repetition, acceleration, and variations
La politica del feed. Serialità, affetti ed ecologie discorsive nella società piattaformizzata = The Politics of the Feed: Seriality, Affects and Discursive Ecologies in the Platform Society
No full textThis article explores the serial nature of digital political communication, arguing that contemporary politics increasingly unfolds as a sequence of episodic, affectively charged and algorithmically distributed content. Moving beyond the aesthetics of seriality, the article identifies four interwoven dimensions - algorithmic, affective, memetic, and infrastructural seriality - through which the logic of the feed organizes visibility, attention, and engagement within platformized public spheres. Drawing on the concept of feed temporality, the paper shows how the rhythm of communication is governed not by linear deliberation but by the kairologic logic of algorithmic media: the right content at the right time to maximize affective resonance. Political participation becomes bingeable, incivility is normalized as a performative style, and memes function as vernacular technologies that encode emotional idioms such as resentment. Against this backdrop, the article outlines the conditions for discursive ecologies capable of interrupting toxic serialities and fostering alternative narrative infrastructures based on care, reflexivity, and symbolic cohabitation. The aim is to reconceptualize visibility not merely as exposure, but as a shared responsibility in the design of democratic communication
The Changing Face of Palestinian Resistance: Hamas and the Defence of Palestine
Full text linkThe scale and audacity of Hamas's attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023, surprised many and has generated intense debate about their causes and consequences. This article employs arguments from the critical terrorism and resistance literatures to argue that a series of critical junctures between 2017 – 2023 narrowed the range of viable alternate paths for Hamas to resist the increasing political, military, and societal asymmetry between Palestinians and Israelis. This asymmetry caused Palestinians to fear that the growing permanence and normalisation of Israel's occupation made the prospects of a state chimerical. The article demonstrates how these junctures changed the meaning and intent of Hamas's resistance, using the attacks to transform the status quo in the Occupied Territories and place resolving the Palestinian Question at the forefront of international consciousness. By unravelling the complex interplay between the causal conditions, configurations, and mechanisms surrounding these junctures, this article provides an alternate explanation of these terrorist attacks that stands in tension with more orthodox explanations and their causal reliance on Weberian and Hobbesian norms about non-state actor violence
Fostering school engagement and social support in postsecondary school: the roles of ethnic studies and sense of community and belonging
Full text linkBackground: Ethnic studies has been found to foster students’ school engagement and social support in schools. However, to date, there has been no study that has specifically examined the relationships of ethnic studies with the three psychosocial dimensions of students’ school engagement (i.e., emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) and their social support, as well as the potential factors that mediate these relationships. Method: We conducted 17 in-depth interviews with university students with varying exposures to ethnic studies to examine how ethnic studies fostered their school engagement and social support, and how sense of community and sense of belonging mediated these positive effects of ethnic studies. Results: From our thematic analysis of our interview data, we identified two main themes: (1) opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, and (2) barriers to learning from ethnic studies. Conclusion: In-class, teacher-facilitated, student-led class discussions in ethnic studies and active participation in university-sanctioned, ethnoracial minority-centered registered student organizations provided underrepresented students considerable opportunities to promote their peer-to-peer learning and gain greater sense of community and sense of belonging in postsecondary school, which in turn, fostered their emotional and behavioral school engagement and social support. Future research could focus on strategies to address barriers to learning from ethnic studies
