42 research outputs found
Navigating Non-Invitation: Pro-Vaccine Choice Communities Amidst Exclusion and Public Participation
No full textBetween 2017 and 2021, specific health policy concerning vaccination in Italy contributed to the “non‐invitation” of pro-vaccine choice communities to decision‐making processes and public services with significant consequences for their societal life. This situation led to the emergence of new, often barely visible, participatory pathways. This article aims to examine the dynamics of exclusion and participation of pro‐vaccine choice communities in Italy, adopting a science and technology studies (STS) framework that allows us to explore how non‐invitation and participation are deeply entangled. Through digital ethnography and interviews, we investigate how individuals and communities navigate “non-invitation” and seek alternative avenues for participation. We observe their efforts to contest compulsory vaccination policies and legitimize their claims through political representation and independent scientific research. Despite facing stigmatization and marginalization, they employ vari..
L’ambivalenza delle narrazioni giovanili tra incertezze del credere, certezze valoriali, messa “in scena” del sé e ricerca di senso
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Rethinking the nexus between science, politics and society in the age of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
No full textThis crossing boundaries section addresses the substantial aspects at stake in reshaping the nexus between science, politics and society triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this regard, three main dimensions are explored: first, the emerging forms of science-related populism and how political narratives challenge and dispute prevailing scientific knowledge; second, the platformization of science communication and the active role of users and communities in consuming and spreading online misinformation; third, the role of lay expertise in contesting the epistemic authority of science during the health emergency. The authors explore the related topics by mobilizing different theoretical frameworks from STS studies, media studies and legal science, also moving from empirical to theoretical level in order to challenge the "surface" of a multilayered phenomenon
Quantificazione del sé e gestione della malattia cronica: il caso dei pazienti diabetici
No full textIl contributo si propone di indagare il ruolo che le tecnologie digitali, in particolare i sensori per il monitoraggio della glicemia e microinfusori per la terapia insulinica, hanno sul vissuto e sulla gestione della cronicità nella quotidianità dei pazienti diabetici che controllano il decorso della patologia attraverso pratiche di self-tracking, ossia di auto misurazione, che comprendono attività di raccolta, analisi e riflessione su dati autoriferiti
“This is the real face of Covid-19!”: How Refused Knowledge Communities Entered the Pandemic Arena
No full textThis chapter analyses the process involved in enacting broad discursive substantive arenas in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In so doing, the chapter highlights the role played by both human and non-human agents (such as the technologies mobilised to counteract the spread of SARS CoV-2 and the actors considered experts by refused knowledge communities’ [RKCs’] followers) in enacting counter narratives about the Covid-19 pandemic, so as to make sense of the global emergency according to a body of refused knowledge. Hence, the chapter illustrates how these counter narratives progressively empower RKCs to collaboratively act within a broad discursive arena, fostering public dissent against public health policies. Indeed, RKCs permeate public discourses about emerging societal issues in depth, also attracting the attention and concerns of both policymakers and media operators
«È sposata?» «Sono un medico». Le professioniste della salute nei medical drama fra rappresentazioni e aspirazioni
No full textIl saggio si pone l'obiettivo di discutere il possibile contributo dei medical drama alla costruzione sociale dell'identità professionale del medico, in relazione al processo di femminilizzazione della stessa professione. A partire da un'analisi della rappresentazione delle professioniste della salute nella serialità televisiva ospedaliera italiana e americana, prodotta tra gli anni Novanta e i Duemila, si avanzano alcune ipotesi circa il rapporto tra fiction seriale e processi di formazione dell'identità professionale di genere della categoria professionale
