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Reducing the digital divide for marginalized households
Get PDFDigital skills are increasingly essential for full participation in modern life. Yet many low-income families face a dual digital divide: limited access to technology and limited ability to use it effectively. These gaps can undermine adults' ability to support their children's education, restrict access to public services, and reduce their own employability. Despite growing policy attention, rigorous evidence on how to close these gaps—especially among disadvantaged adults in high-income countries—remains scarce. We evaluate the impact of a comprehensive digital inclusion program in Turin, Italy, targeting 859 low-income families with school-aged children. Participants were randomly assigned to a control group or one of two treatment arms, each combining a free tablet with internet access and digital literacy training of different durations. One year later, treated participants reported large improvements in digital skills and daily technology use. Parents also became more confident in guiding their children's online activities, more engaged in digital parenting, and more likely to access public services digitally. We find no short-run effects on employment or job search behavior, but treated participants expressed greater optimism about future training prospects. Effects are statistically similar across the two training intensities, suggesting that once basic barriers are removed, digital engagement can become self-sustaining. Mediation analysis confirms that digital skills—not just access—are key drivers of these outcomes. Sequential effects are particularly strong in the domains of social inclusion and parenting. The findings underscore the importance of addressing both financial and learning constraints and suggest that bundled interventions can foster inclusive digital participation
A tax is a signal: theory and evidence
Get PDFWe propose a theoretical model in which uninformed consumers update their beliefs about the health effects of sugar in soft drinks through two sequential policies: an information campaign and a sugar tax. The information campaign is modeled as a costless signal (cheap talk), while the tax policy is modeled as a costly signal. While the information campaign conveys only partial information, we show that the tax policy can generate a fully revealing equilibrium, thereby transmitting accurate information to consumers. Our empirical analysis supports the theoretical predictions. Exploiting the announcement (on March 16, 2016) of the tiered structure of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy, we provide evidence consistent with the tax policy functioning as an effective signaling device. Immediately after the tax announcement and before implementation, both the purchased volumes and the sugar content of taxed soft drinks declined, while purchases of exempted sugar-sweetened beverages remained unchanged. In contrast, the preceding information campaign had a similar effect across all soft drinks, regardless of their sugar content
Towards City Museum as Praxis: Outlining a Critical Mediation Strategy & Analyzing City Museums and Exhibitions
Get PDFThis thesis emerges from the feelings of isolation, confusion and powerlessness related to contemporary urban life and the complexity of the often-incomprehensive mechanisms that shape our cities. The main objective is to propose the outline of a critical mediation strategy for museums and exhibitions in and about the city, that can work towards empowering citizens in seeking their right to the city and spatial justice. The first part begins with an overview of the city museum context, that includes its historical development, and the discourse related to its practice, which focuses on the social role and relevancy of the museum as a dialogical space. Subsequently, the theoretical and methodological framework of this strategy is developed, based on Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy model and enriched with insightful writings on the urban condition by Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The mediation framework is further informed by the various interpretations that the right to the city acquired recently inside the city museum context, as well as by the critical spatial perspectives of Edward Soja and Stavros Stavrides. In the second part, the proposed methodological framework is used as an analytical one to study museum and exhibition cases in and about Athens, Bologna and Berlin. This detailed analysis unveils different degrees in which the proposed approach is used in specific existing museum practices, key factors that can determine its implementation, as well as the fact that when critical mediation concepts are applied to the museum itself, it can move closer towards acting as a passage from reflection to action, towards praxis. Alongside the elaborated outline for a critical mediation strategy, the thesis’ contribution “towards city museum as praxis” includes examples of how it can be applied in mediation moments of the analyzed museums that were diagnosed as anti-dialogical, while further research inquiries are also proposed
Didattica dell’Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale
Get PDFIl volume nasce all’interno del gruppo di ricerca della Cattedra UNESCO in Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale (ECG) dell’Università di Bologna, coordinata dal professor Massimiliano Tarozzi. Frutto di riflessioni condivise maturate durante momenti di formazione estiva, il libro risponde all’esigenza di colmare una lacuna nella letteratura scientifica, che oggi manca di un orientamento pedagogico chiaro e condiviso sull’ECG. Infatti, nonostante il dibattito sull’ECG sia vivace e ricco, la sua traduzione in pratiche educative concrete rimane una sfida, soprattutto nel contesto scolastico italiano, dove ostacoli normativi e una formazione docente frammentata ne limitano l’attuazione. Gli autori e le autrici del volume – molti dei quali hanno esperienza diretta come insegnanti – intendono proporre l’ECG come approccio pre-didattico, trasversale e trasformativo, capace di influire sull’ambiente educativo, le relazioni e le pratiche quotidiane. I dieci capitoli offrono contributi teorici, esempi pratici e strumenti critici: dal ruolo del corpo e il Teatro dell’Oppresso, al valore dell’esperienza e del pensiero orientato al futuro; dall’educazione museale e il ruolo della formazione docenti, fino alla rilettura critica dell’educazione civica in Italia. Il volume include anche casi di studio che esplorano il potenziale trasformativo in ECG dell’arte e dell’educazione politica nella scuola. Anziché proporre modelli rigidi, il libro suggerisce spunti, linee guida e riflessioni trasversali, adattabili a diversi contesti scolastici, per promuovere una Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale critica e trasformativa. L’intento è alimentare un dibattito pedagogico vivo e sostenere insegnanti e istituzioni nel rendere l’ECG una componente dinamica e significativa dei percorsi formativi, in grado di rispondere alle sfide complesse del nostro tempo
WRITE. Performance of Genders. Dataset
No full textThe current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “Performance of Genders: Marking Masculine/Feminine Identities through Body and Calligraphy”, MediAzioni, 2025, 46. It collects the metadata descriptions of the main artworks/series analysed in the publication as formalised in the “WRITE digital archive”, that is the semantic web digital archive of the WRITE project (G.A. 949645). Each jsonld file contains the metadata related to the artwork(s)/series itself/themselves, its author(s), its Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features), and, if any, related exhibition(s), artwork(s), and literary work(s).The artworks/series were selected from a large number of works included in the archive as the most representative of different approaches/perspectives on gender issues in Chinese performance art. The dataset also includes the transcription of the two artists’ interviews cited in the publication. The data, here provided in a machine-readable format, are already described in a discursive way in the related publication
“Donne che camminano per la città”. Prime riflessioni storico-giuridiche sulla flânerie femminile
Get PDF[Women Walk the City”. Preliminary Historical-Legal Reflections on Female Flânerie] The article aims to highlight how women’s freedom to reside and move (walk) in the metropolis has contributed to redefining both the modern concept of female citizenship and the concept of urban space between the 19th and 20th century
Il desiderio di città
Get PDF[The desire for the city] The desire for the city expresses first and foremost the discomfort of a lack and therefore takes the form of an antidote to an actual or potential loss. Thus, it can be said that the desire for the city is experienced as the hope of keeping open and alive a relationship that is possible, but in no way absolutely guarantee
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of two scales for assessing the acceptance of myths about intimate partner violence against women. DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN (DMP)
Get PDFData Management Plan of the research project "Evaluation of the psychometric properties of two scales for assessing the acceptance of myths about intimate partner violence against women". The project aims at testing the psychometric properties of the Domestic Violence Myths Acceptance Scale and the Acceptance of Myths About Intimate Partner Violence against Women Scale in Italian, and to compare the properties and usefulness of the two scales
Dataset of dog and cat population tested for Feline panleukopenia virus and Canine parvovirus
No full textThe dataset contains signalment, clinical and diagnostic data of a population of 33 dogs and cats tested for the presence of feline panleukopenia virus and canine parvovirus DNA at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Department of Veterinary Medical Science of the University of Bologna
Zezé
Get PDFA venti anni dalla riscoperta e poco più di un secolo dalla pubblicazione, viene tradotto in italiano Zezé (1909) di Ángeles Vicente (Murcia, 1873 - Buenos Aires, 1918), il romanzo omoerotico e femminista di una donna moderna. Il primo testo spagnolo in lingua castigliana a trattare apertamente il tema dell’amore lesbico è la storia di una cantante di varietà del primo Novecento, che in un viaggio notturno, in battello, tra Buenos Aires e Montevideo offre alla compagna di cabina, e al pubblico, il racconto di una vita eccezionale, sempre in bilico tra miseria e ricchezza. In questo bildungsroman tutto al femminile e dal sapore picaresco, in cui si intrecciano anticlericalismo, omoerotismo e spiritismo, la Bella Zezé ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della propria esistenza, dall’iniziazione sessuale in un collegio religioso, alla vita sfrenata e lussuosa accanto all’amante Leonor, fino alla scelta del mondo dello spettacolo come unica via per l’indipendenza economica. Ángeles Vicente, libera pensatrice, massone ed emancipata almeno quanto la protagonista, sfrutta la nascente cultura erotica della Sicalipsis spagnola – corrente letteraria leggera ed esplicita in voga nei primi decenni del XX secolo – e il successo strepitoso delle cantanti di couplet del momento per proporre un nuovo modello femminile, moderno e disinibito, ma anche scettico e disincantato, che si scontra con le convenzioni di una società fatta di sole apparenze. Zezé è il secondo romanzo dell’autrice, che pubblica il primo, Teresilla, nel 1907, con prologo di Felipe Trigo, e due raccolte di racconti di tema fantastico e spiritista nel 1908, Los buitres (“Gli avvoltoi”), e nel 1910, Sombras. Cuentos psíquicos (“Ombre. Racconti psichici”)