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Towards a New Complexity: reasons for Media and the City
No full textThe introduction outlines limitations of disjointed approaches to the media/city nexus and the reasons for integrated views
Fortezze, frontiere e rovine: lo spazio della scuola nel cinema e nella televisione
No full textBy analyzing over 100 movies and tv shows, the paper explores how postwar audiovisual culture has represented the spaces of the school. The analysis returns a taxonomy with four main models: the frontier (the school as a place to be redeemed from chaos), the fortress (the school as a solid and impregnable repository of meaning) and the ruins (the school as an irredimable space), and the space of liberation (The school as a space to be destructured by goodwilled teachers and students)
Media and The Social Production of Urban Space: Towards an Integrated Approach to the Controversial Nature of Urban Space.
No full textThe paper puts forward an approach to the study of the role of the convergent media system in the social production of urban space. By focusing on controversies around the definition of “urban space”, processes of strategic use of media become more visible. Therefore a case of urban conflict was selected; specifically, the paper examines the 2007 incident known as “the Milan Chinese riots” which saw migrants clash with the police as ultimately motivated by a conflict around definition of “space”. Through ethnography, interviews and content analysis, the paper reconstructs the practices and representations enacted by all involved social actors in the effort of producing competing representations of the self and of urban space
Bit Di Rumore Bianco: La Psicofonia nell'Era Di Internet
No full textDrawing from an exploration of how spiritualism represented for modernity a negotiation between scientific thinking, magical thinking and religion, the essay explores a particular variation of spiritualism, Instrumental Transcommunication (spiritualism using technological mediation in the communication with the dead), and more specifically one of its sub-disciplines (EVP, or recording of so-called «voices of the dead»). The analysis of secondary texts produced by a subculture made up of Italian practitioners of the discipline shows a process of de «modernization» of the magical thinking that incorporates not only technology, but makes of it a place and instrument of a magic-ritual practice, in Italy, often charged with a strong religious significance. Moreover, the analysis illustrates how new media have become the main platform of the new spiritualism (which ranges from claims of scientific legitimacy and mystical and participatory dimensions of the magical thinking) for the theoretical development, the circulation of knowledge, the recreation of the magical experiences (listening to «voices of the dead») and maintenance processes of the community
Sull'eterna discontinuità: ipotesi per una sociosemiotica della comunicazione esterna
No full textIn this essay we attempt a transversal investigation of some broad hypotheses for a socio-semiotic framing of the sign of outdoor communication. We try to demonstrate (using, among other tools, the dissonance theory paradigm) the ineludible condition of discontinuity of this sign, which forces it into a conflictual relationship with the surcodings affecting social and private spaces. Finally, we briefly examine two examples of surcodings designed to protect discontinuity itself: a sedimental one (London’s Piccadilly Circus) and a preventive one (Amsterdam’s Sandberg Institute)
Bridging the Green Datascape: Data Scraping for Sustainability Purposes
Full text linkThe abundance of provision of environmental data and their diffusion on the Internet through
idiosyncratic methods without unified standards for disclosure, has brought about a situation in
which data is available but difficult to aggregate, synthesize and interpret. This article explores the
roots and implications of practices of “scraping”, i.e. automatic unauthorized collection of data
published on the web, enacted by public and private subjects for the purposes of sustainability.
Drawing from the concept of ‘datascape’ to describe the overall socio-technical environment this
data circulates, the paper explores two case studies. The first, EDGI/DataRefuge, deals with a
systematic attempt to collect and preserve environmental data and documents published by environmental
management agencies, which is subject of cancellation by US Government policies.
The second case, WorldAQI, examines a platform collecting, refining and publishing on maps the
air quality indexes of hundreds of countries in the world. The first case allows us to see the human
component of large-scale web scraping efforts of highly heterogeneous data, which highlights
the need for resources. The second case highlights how the processes of collation, formatting and
normalization of heterogeneous data to maximize readability have implications for data quality
and representativeness. In conclusion, we observe how through data scraping stakeholders can
enhance the spatial and temporal comparability of data and provide new avenues for public participation
into complex decision-making processes
La DTT in rete.
No full textThe paper analyzes the forms and evolution of narratives about Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on the Internet from 2000 to 2009. It does so through the analysis of institutional sites, Italian newspapers, web-magazines about the digital world and non-official information sources such as websites and blogs, often of commercial origin, wich act as relayers of official narratives and also act as indicators of changes in the general DTT narratives. The analysis is developed diachronically, remarking both the incoherence of Dtt narratives, and their difficulty in putting concrete user needs at their centre. Three main phases are reconstructed: an initial mythology- building phase (2000-2004), dominated by the institutional sources; a conflict phase, starting at the end of 2004 and continuing for the two following years, with the information sites sharply criticizing DTT narratives drawing on technical, cultural and social arguments; and a later phase, characterized by a progressive numerical reduction fo websites and of debate
Territori dell'intimità, tempi della nostalgia: percorsi di negoziazione dei significati delle tecnologie
No full textThe chapter details the results of a 2009 research project on the use of ICTs by 18-24 (n=50). Specifically, it deals with technological imaginaries, and explores a. the social meaning conferred to social networking sites and utilities by the sample and b. how these meanings appear to rank in a scale of "intimacy" which appears to work for the users as the organizing principle of the geography of these platforme
Generatività e Stagnazione nelle Istituzioni
No full textThe article outlines an empirically-grounded perspective on social generativity. Drawing from both Erickson's and McAdams & de St. Aubin's frameworks, we try to devise the main coordinates of "social generativity" as a shared resource. Our reflection rests upon a large-scale qualitative project aimed at the analysis of forms of generativity in Italian institutions
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