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Do ICTS help maintain social capital in the recovery phase? A case-study of L'Aquila earthquake".
No full textThe use of new interactive communication tools, particularly social networking sites (SNSs), has grown considerably in the last couple of decades. According to Boyd and Ellison (2007), SNSs are defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile, ar-ticulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and make visible their social net-works.
New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are changing the way in which we communicate and interact with each other (Hu, Johnston & Hemphill, 2013). These communication tools allow for a switch from one-directional communication (from the issuers to the receivers) to multi-directional communication where everyone can spread and exchange information. In addition, with this new form of communication, networks are no longer related to a specific space and the people who live there - they are now outspread networks (Sutton, 2010).
This study examines the role played by ICTs in re-creating places of socialization and maintaining social capital in a post-disaster reconstruction scenario after the disruption of the physical environment that was once important for the creation and maintenance of these relationships. It aims to investigate whether (and how) ICTs can work as communication tools by allowing people that are dislocated post-disaster to maintain contacts with their previous social network and, therefore, to "virtually" restore the broken offline social fabric. First, we will analyze the literature on the role of ICTs, paying particular attention to SNSs for community building and maintenance of social capital. We will then briefly describe how new media have changed the concept of place and social relationships, and why the maintenance of social capital is crucial for disaster recovery. Our preliminary task is to introduce the case of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake of 2009, and the methodology and results of our researc
Di terra e di pietra. Culture del lavoro e industria del travertino a Rapolano Terme
No full textTerra e pietra, da sempre protagonisti nella vita economica ma anche sociale di comunità, quelle di Rapolano Terme e Serre di Rapolano, che del coltivare la terra e il travertino ne hanno fatto il tratto distintivo.
Frutto di una ricerca che unisce l’antropologia e la storia locale, il volume racconta come intorno a questi due elementi si sia sviluppata per tutto il Novecento una originale cultura del lavoro e dell’industria che ha finito per condizionare la vita quotidiana di piccoli e grandi imprenditori, lavoratori dipendenti, artigiani, contadini e donne.
Di terra e di pietra sono quindi le memorie di oltre cento anni, storie individuali e collettive di contadini e cavatori, passioni politiche e desideri di emancipazione che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo economico dei due paesi in provincia di Siena. Racconti personali si intrecciano così a storie di famiglie e imprese, dando vita a un volume preciso e dettagliato che, al rigore del saggio di ricerca, unisce le suggestioni della narrazione orale. Oggi, finalmente, anche scritta.
Completano il libro le fotografie, molte inedite, dell’archivio ‘Tradere’, progetto del Comune di Rapolano Terme che promuove la memoria del lavoro nelle cave di travertino
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