Accanto alle tecnologie che vediamo intorno a noi tutti i giorni, di cui possiamo sentire la pres... more Accanto alle tecnologie che vediamo intorno a noi tutti i giorni, di cui possiamo sentire la presenza fisica, siamo anche circondati da una serie di tecnologie che, per ragioni diverse, appartengono al mondo dell’immaginario. Un particolare tipo di queste tecnologie e costituito dal vaporware. Con il termine vaporware si intende descrivere alcune tecnologie che sono state presentate come imminenti, ma non si sono mai affacciate realmente sul mercato. La storia dello sviluppo del vaporware e in grado di darci preziose informazioni su dove si stia indirizzando l’innovazione tecnologica.
Marco Crepaldi is a social psychologist who runs channels on YouTube and Twitch, where he talks a... more Marco Crepaldi is a social psychologist who runs channels on YouTube and Twitch, where he talks about male issues, such as body shaming, violence against men, social isolation, and feminism. In June 2020 he made some controversial statements on the social difficulties experienced by straight white males, which caused a large, polarized debate on social media. This article reconstructs the main lines of Crepaldi’s argument and proposes a discourse analysis of the interactions related to the case in a particularly active Facebook group, called IMDI, Il Meglio Di Internet (‘The Best of the Internet’). The aim of this article is to investigate the discursive constructions of masculinity presented by Crepaldi and those that emerged in the Facebook group conversations, in order to understand the interpretative repertoires at play within these discourses, how they are structured around particular ideological dilemmas and what different subject positions the participants take up. Keywords: ...
Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The... more Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The concept of "virtue signaling" defines the expression of moral values with the intent to improve one's own image. The global epidemic we are experiencing has favoured a new nuance of this attitude, which I define "covirtue signalling": the ostentation of virtue during the Covid-19 pandemic. This phenomenon is linked to another behaviour that is somehow the base of it: the public shaming of other people's behaviour. The covirtue signaling stance appears to have many aspects in common with others ideology only apparently opposite, such as the NoMask movement and the pandemic denial.
Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The... more Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The concept of "virtue signaling" defines the expression of moral values with the intent to improve one's own image. The global epidemic we are experiencing has favoured a new nuance of this attitude, which I define "covirtue signalling": the ostentation of virtue during the Covid-19 pandemic. This phenomenon is linked to another behaviour that is somehow the base of it: the public shaming of other people's behaviour. The covirtue signaling stance appears to have many aspects in common with others ideology only apparently opposite, such as the NoMask movement and the pandemic denial.
Audience Participassion. Theatre Professionals and Audiences Between Participation and Passion Th... more Audience Participassion. Theatre Professionals and Audiences Between Participation and Passion The article presents the ethnographic account of a particular audience development project, T.A.S.K. (Theatre Audience Specific Keys), implemented by the Teatro della Tosse (Genova) as an original initiative focused on the engagement of young non-attenders (19-25). In particular, the research aims to understand the lived experience of all the people involved in the project, and the reactions of non-attenders to a range of live performances they experienced under study conditions. The T.A.S.K. project has resulted in much more than a data-gathering or data-generating exercise. Instead it has become a form of participatory enquiry, where both the T.A.S.K. members and the audience members were actively engaged in the process of making sense of their experiences for themselves.
Accanto alle tecnologie che vediamo intorno a noi tutti i giorni, di cui possiamo sentire la pres... more Accanto alle tecnologie che vediamo intorno a noi tutti i giorni, di cui possiamo sentire la presenza fisica, siamo anche circondati da una serie di tecnologie che, per ragioni diverse, appartengono al mondo dell’immaginario. Un particolare tipo di queste tecnologie e costituito dal vaporware. Con il termine vaporware si intende descrivere alcune tecnologie che sono state presentate come imminenti, ma non si sono mai affacciate realmente sul mercato. La storia dello sviluppo del vaporware e in grado di darci preziose informazioni su dove si stia indirizzando l’innovazione tecnologica.
Marco Crepaldi is a social psychologist who runs channels on YouTube and Twitch, where he talks a... more Marco Crepaldi is a social psychologist who runs channels on YouTube and Twitch, where he talks about male issues, such as body shaming, violence against men, social isolation, and feminism. In June 2020 he made some controversial statements on the social difficulties experienced by straight white males, which caused a large, polarized debate on social media. This article reconstructs the main lines of Crepaldi’s argument and proposes a discourse analysis of the interactions related to the case in a particularly active Facebook group, called IMDI, Il Meglio Di Internet (‘The Best of the Internet’). The aim of this article is to investigate the discursive constructions of masculinity presented by Crepaldi and those that emerged in the Facebook group conversations, in order to understand the interpretative repertoires at play within these discourses, how they are structured around particular ideological dilemmas and what different subject positions the participants take up. Keywords: ...
Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The... more Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The concept of "virtue signaling" defines the expression of moral values with the intent to improve one's own image. The global epidemic we are experiencing has favoured a new nuance of this attitude, which I define "covirtue signalling": the ostentation of virtue during the Covid-19 pandemic. This phenomenon is linked to another behaviour that is somehow the base of it: the public shaming of other people's behaviour. The covirtue signaling stance appears to have many aspects in common with others ideology only apparently opposite, such as the NoMask movement and the pandemic denial.
Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The... more Covirtue Signaling. The ostentation of virtue and public shaming during the Covid-19 pandemic The concept of "virtue signaling" defines the expression of moral values with the intent to improve one's own image. The global epidemic we are experiencing has favoured a new nuance of this attitude, which I define "covirtue signalling": the ostentation of virtue during the Covid-19 pandemic. This phenomenon is linked to another behaviour that is somehow the base of it: the public shaming of other people's behaviour. The covirtue signaling stance appears to have many aspects in common with others ideology only apparently opposite, such as the NoMask movement and the pandemic denial.
Audience Participassion. Theatre Professionals and Audiences Between Participation and Passion Th... more Audience Participassion. Theatre Professionals and Audiences Between Participation and Passion The article presents the ethnographic account of a particular audience development project, T.A.S.K. (Theatre Audience Specific Keys), implemented by the Teatro della Tosse (Genova) as an original initiative focused on the engagement of young non-attenders (19-25). In particular, the research aims to understand the lived experience of all the people involved in the project, and the reactions of non-attenders to a range of live performances they experienced under study conditions. The T.A.S.K. project has resulted in much more than a data-gathering or data-generating exercise. Instead it has become a form of participatory enquiry, where both the T.A.S.K. members and the audience members were actively engaged in the process of making sense of their experiences for themselves.
In verità le reti sono sempre esistite, esordisce Manuel Castells, ma sono rimaste a lungo soffoc... more In verità le reti sono sempre esistite, esordisce Manuel Castells, ma sono rimaste a lungo soffocate dal potere delle organizzazioni burocratico-verticali, da cui oggi riescono a riscattarsi grazie al perfezionamento della tecnologia, fi no a scompaginare l'ordinamento del nostro mondo: si riparte, così, dove si chiudeva la trilogia della network society, con la stessa ambizione di sintesi teorica, e anche con qualche piccola incongruenza in più. Se il potere si fonda sul controllo della mente prima ancora che sull'esercizio legittimo della forza, sostiene Castells, ci troviamo oggi di fronte ad una frattura tra due dinamiche alternative: quella verticale dei media generalisti, che operano un continuo framing dell'opinione, e quella partecipativa e grassroot della «autocomunicazione di massa», che, unendo la potenza di diffusione delle tecnologie alla natura fi duciaria del contatto interpersonale, svela il profi lo di una nuova e rivoluzionaria «politica insorgente». Di qui l'idea, nemmeno troppo originale, che il racconto televisivo e giornalistico si fondi sulla produzione di emozioni negative (ansia, rabbia, paura), per lo più funzionali alla legittimazione di politiche conservatrici. Questa operazione di agenda-setting, inoltre, vive soprattutto di una dimensione non razionale: è l'emozione -come Castells cerca di sostenere con un'escursione nelle neuroscienze, che restano un po' la scatola nera di ogni discorso sugli effetti dei media -a spiegare l'adeguarsi delle menti al pensiero dominante, e la loro malleabilità ai richiami ideologici. Dall'altro lato, invece, abbiamo la «insurgent politics» dei gruppi che si organizzano attraverso le reti wireless, rendendo possibile l'inclusione dei soggetti e delle Recensioni ComPol
a cura di) (2008) Homer Simpson goes to Washington. American politics through popular culture Lex... more a cura di) (2008) Homer Simpson goes to Washington. American politics through popular culture Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 266
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