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Serialità e intimità nel podcasting politico contemporaneo = Seriality and intimacy in contemporary political podcasting
No full textThis article investigates the communicative potential of podcasting as a strategic medium for contemporary political communication, arguing that its distinctive aesthetics - rooted in seriality, intimacy, and personalized listening - make it particularly suited to engaging citizens, especially younger audiences, in political discourse. Drawing on recent shifts in news consumption, including declining trust in legacy media and rising patterns of news avoidance among social-media-native cohorts, the article situates podcasting within an evolving media ecosystem in which audiences increasingly seek proximity, emotional resonance, and narrated forms of political explanation. The first part examines podcast seriality as both a narrative structure and a relational device. Serial formats foster sustained engagement over time, producing forms of temporal rituality and affective continuity that strengthen the relationship between hosts and audiences. The second part explores the aesthetics of intimacy enabled by the medium's technical affordances and stylistic conventions. Through first-person storytelling, informal language, and the embodied presence of the voice, podcasts generate a sense of closeness that can foster empathy, identification, and community-building. Four international case studies - Brexitcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, Bunga Bunga, and The Right Kind of Family - illustrate how podcasting can alternatively function as a space for collective sense-making, ideological mobilization, critical narration, and transnational investigative journalism. These cases demonstrate the medium's versatility as both an interpretive archive and a real-time political intervention. Ultimately, podcasting is presented as a flexible political infrastructure whose relational and affective capacities make it increasingly central to public communication in a hybrid media environment
The Enemy as Victim: Israeli Media Coverage of Mass Crimes Against Palestinians in Gaza
Get PDFThis article examines how mainstream Israeli media cover military actions in Gaza that international legal bodies have classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity. Focusing on three widely read online outlets - Mako (center), Israel Hayom (right-wing), and Channel 7 (far-right) - it combines quantitative content analysis with qualitative discourse analysis to explore how reporting balances the framing of these actions as legitimate state violence against an "enemy" with the destabilizing implications of acknowledging them as crimes and portraying Palestinians as victims. Drawing on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model, settler-colonial theory, and scholarship on nationalism, the study situates Israeli journalism within structural constraints shaped by military censorship, ethnonationalism, and the alignment of media agendas with state and military objectives, particularly during what is perceived as wartime. The analysis shows that mainstream outlets routinely omit, justify, or reframe Israeli military actions in ways that preserve Israeli moral legitimacy while denying Palestinians legitimate victim status. Even when international criticism or alternative accounts are reported, they are often delegitimized, reframed as politically motivated, or used to reinforce a defensive national posture. In this framework, recognition of Palestinian suffering is treated as a threat to national cohesion, while Israeli victimhood remains central and unquestioned. By exposing the mechanisms through which the media uphold the symbolic and political boundaries of the Jewish ethnonational and colonial state, the article demonstrates how such journalism contributes to the radicalization of public discourse, the further normalization of dehumanizing rhetoric, and the undermining of journalism's democratic role
Editoriale: Cancel culture: oltre l'identitarismo, verso l'identità, a partire dalla persona
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Il contributo delle tecnologie e dell’IA nell’educazione fisica e sportiva e per la promozione della salute
Get PDFRiassunto: L’educazione fisica e sportiva è chiamata ad affrontare non poche sfide negli ultimi anni: la problematica della crescente sedentarietà tra bambini e adolescenti, sempre meno attivi e sempre più sedentari che limita le valenze formative e gli effetti preventivi e protettivi dell’esercizio e l’uso delle tecnologie e dell’Intelligenza artificiale. Se da un lato si rileva un deciso ampliamento dell’epistemologia dell’educazione fisica dall’altro si richiedono nuove competenze per i docenti ed una rinnovata e più ampia relazione scuola-famiglia. L’integrazione tecnologica può favorire una pratica motoria più consapevole, estende l’intervento educativo oltre l’ambiente scolastico e può migliorare l’efficacia della didattica in tutte le sue fasi. Il seguente contributo analizza le opportunità didattiche più recenti offerte dall’evoluzione tecnologica, con un focus sull’intelligenza artificiale nell’insegnamento dell’educazione fisica e sul contributo per la promozione della salute, valorizzando l’apprendimento motorio e stili di vita attivi in una prospettiva educativa long life education. Parole chiave: Tecnologie, Intelligenza artificiale, Epistemiologia, educazione fisica, apprendimento motorio Abstract: Physical and sports education has been called to face several challenges in recent years: the growing issue of sedentary behavior among children and adolescents who are increasingly inactive and sedentary, limits both the educational value and the preventive and protective effects of exercise, as well as the integration of new technologies and artificial intelligence. On one hand, there is a clear expansion of the epistemology of physical education; on the other, new competencies are required for teachers, along with a renewed and strengthened school–family relationship. Technological integration can support more conscious motor practice, extend educational intervention beyond the school environment, and enhance the effectiveness of teaching in all its phases. This paper analyzes the most recent educational opportunities offered by technological advancements, with a focus on artificial intelligence in physical education teaching and its contribution to health promotion, emphasizing motor learning and active lifestyles within a lifelong education perspective. Keywords: Technologies; artificial intelligence; Epistemology; Physical education; Motor learning
