The 'Refugee crisis' has been accompanied by a radical shift of public attitudes toward NGOs oper... more The 'Refugee crisis' has been accompanied by a radical shift of public attitudes toward NGOs operating in the southern Mediterranean, whose image has quickly turned from 'saviors of the sea' to 'sea taxis' by practices of re-contextualization of migration discourses. Less attention has been directed towards the ways such criminalization of solidarity affected migrant representation and identities in turn, especially on social media. This study aims to cast a new light on the discursive practices of criminalizing NGOs and their role in shaping the dichotomy 'Us vs Them'. The case study focuses on Twitter as a privileged arena, where different categories of users are involved in the criminalization of NGOs, fostering the normalization of anti-immigration rhetoric, thus creating room for populist and sovereigntist ideologies. Based on a corpus composed of more than 800.000 tweets posted between 2017 and 2020, this study adopts a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including corpus linguistics and discursive strategies. Findings show that the NGO criminalization is part of the broader process of normalization of anti-immigration rhetoric, legitimizing restrictive migration policies, fostering the building of a sovereigntist political identity and neglecting immigrants' and refugees' own identities and rights. Specifically, results highlight a new articulation of the Us vs Them dichotomy where 'Us' is represented by the in-group, a new 'Them' is represented by the NGO and 'Those' is represented by migrants. The research output as a whole seems to consolidate a present and future trajectory regarding the political discourse on migration that is based on a progressive redefinition of the attributes of illegality/crime that shifts from migrants to rescuers.
In this article we analyse how the immigration issue is narrated during the
Covid-19 outbreak by ... more In this article we analyse how the immigration issue is narrated during the Covid-19 outbreak by several Italian political actors. We select Facebook as the main digital arena of political communication in the Italian public sphere. Quantitative analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis have been applied to politicians’ posts aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the politicization of the issue. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by politicians do not only include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus, but the migratory narration is systematically organized on negative campaigning blaming political opponents. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the Covid-19 outbreak and how the politicization of the migration serves as a context for the normalization of migrant’s exclusion
1 "We", "them" and "those": the recontextualisation of pepole, NGOs and refugees in sovereignst d... more 1 "We", "them" and "those": the recontextualisation of pepole, NGOs and refugees in sovereignst discourse. The paper is aimed at understanding whether and how the criminalisation of NGOs has affected the discursive construction of identity and representations of migrants, Italians and NGOs themselves, assessing which aspects have consolidated and which have changed. The study considers Twitter as a privileged arena to understand public debate: the paper is focused on "common users", by analysing their linguistic, paratextual and discursive strategies. The research is based on a corpus of over 800,000 tweets published between 2017 and 2020, adopting a combination of digital corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis methods. The combination of these analyses has shown that the emergence of criminalising rhetoric towards NGOs entails the following outputs: on the one hand, it sheds light on the relations between identity and otherness by re-articulating the relationship between 'us' and 'them' within media representations of migratory phenomena; on the other hand, it allows us to understand the development of the sovereignist political imagery, as an evolution of nationalism and right-wing populism. Research outputs highlight a strong de-humanisation of migrants through passivisation, impersonalisation and objectification. Through the study of the criminalisation of NGOs, this work contributes to shed new light on the static and dynamic elements of the media representation of migration in Italy and migrants' identities.
Da diversi anni l’Università di Padova registra una marcata crescita di studenti e studentesse st... more Da diversi anni l’Università di Padova registra una marcata crescita di studenti e studentesse straniere che scelgono l’Ateneo patavino consolidando una comunità studentesca sempre più internazionale. Il contributo presenta il lavoro di ricerca svolto tra il 2019 e il 2020 relativo al processo di internazionalizzazione dell’Università di Padova e in particolare alle esperienze di studenti e studentesse internazionali o inserite in programma di mobilità. L’arrivo del virus ha inevitabilmente modificato il ruolo di Padova come snodo internazionale mettendone alla prova l’internazionalizzazione nel campo universitario e nelle relazioni con il tessuto urbano. All’interno di questa cornice, la ricerca intende sviluppare alcune conoscenze sufficienti a individuare potenzialità e rischi relativi all’Ateneo e al rapporto con la città al fine di proporre e sviluppare interventi di coordinamento e implementazione dell’internazionalizzazione attraverso strategie di promozione, proposta e progettazione di politiche per migliorare la visibilità e l’attrattività internazionale della città e dell’Ateneo
Through the combination of digital methods, corpus linguistics and
critical discourse analysis, t... more Through the combination of digital methods, corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, the article investigates the role of Twitter journalism in the process of criminalization of NGOs in the Italian public debate on immigration between 2017 and 2020. Starting from a a theoretical framework that brings together the populist anti-immigration discourse and its integration with the notion of sovereignsm, the research is aimed at: i) analyzing changes in the discourse about the role of NGOs in migration issues; ii) intercept discursive re-contextualization of the populist anti-immigration rhetoric; iii) investigate the role of journalism in these processes. Findings show that NGO’s criminalization is constructed and normalized by a discourse that has progressively shifted its focus from migrants to NGO volunteers, within a general discursive framework where anti ONG claims are deeply embedded in populist / sovereignst stances.
Come è cambiata l'organizzazione degli spazi domestici legati alla dimensione musicale in rel... more Come è cambiata l'organizzazione degli spazi domestici legati alla dimensione musicale in relazione a nuove tecnologie e nuove pratiche di ascolto? L'ascolto della musica è, per una parte degli ascoltatori, un'attività importante, complessa e variegata, non solo legata allo svago e al tempo libero. In questo articolo si tenta di fornire solo qualche linea-guida generale per comprendere le trasformazioni dell'ascolto domestico, senza alcuna pretesa di completezza nell'analisi.
Following the critical discourse analysis approach, this article intends to highlight how the ant... more Following the critical discourse analysis approach, this article intends to highlight how the anti-immigration perspective is (re)produced within the Facebook page of the Italian political leader Matteo Salvini during the pandemic scenario between March 2020–March 2021. Quantitative and qualitative analysis have been applied to Salvini’s posts and users’ comments aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the process of “securitization” of national borders as well as the re-legitimation of national identities. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by the political leader do not include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus. Rather, Salvini systematically organized the migratory narration on negative campaigning blaming political opponents and recontextualized the moralization of borders. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the...
My research aims to investigate the role of Facebook users in the construction of the current “re... more My research aims to investigate the role of Facebook users in the construction of the current “refugee crisis” representations. Although Social Networks Sites are recognized as spaces for expressing the public opinion and engaging in the public discussion, fewer Italian researches are focused on the contemporary refugee crisis representations that emerge from Facebook users. Since this, the focus of my research is to consider and analyze user comments as forms of articulating voices that show a part, often ignored, of the public opinion able to enrich the media representations. The empirical material is collected from 3 Facebook pages of Italian newspapers and their posts about the narration of the refugee crisis. These pages are one of the main common sources where people read news in their everyday life and they also represent a journalism in transition: in fact, they manifest the continuity between traditional forms of journalismand new ones, but at the same time they also repres...
This contribution intends to highlight how narratives of Europe are discursively constructed in o... more This contribution intends to highlight how narratives of Europe are discursively constructed in online public arenas of Facebook pages of Italian newspapers. The main aim is to analyse newspaper posts and users' comments which foster narratives that exhibit the Eurosceptic discourse in the 'refugee crisis' scenario between 2016 and 2018. The case study focuses on Italy as a core player in terms of anti-European sentiments which are increasingly present in public opinion. Critical Discourse Analysis has been applied to posts and comments, aiming at identifying the strategic discourses and the patterns of convergence or divergence that contribute to narratives of Europe. Firstly, findings show the discoursive recontextualization of common patterns between newspapers and users. Secondly, results also highlight that users' comments diverge from newspapers showing anti-immigration positions and hostility towards the EU even when newspapers adopted a neutral narrative. Finally, the study underlines the importance of the hybridization of communicative practices that both enrich the media system and discursive construction of narratives of Europe.
LA "CRISI MIGRATORIA" E LA CRISI DELLA SFERA PUBBLICA, 2019
This paper analyses the quality of the online public debate about the contemporary migration phen... more This paper analyses the quality of the online public debate about the contemporary migration phenomenon known as 'refugee crisis' to detect some characteristics of participation and re-articulate the themes developed in the online public sphere. Specifically, the paper analyses the debate encouraged by users on Facebook through their comments as a practice of access and participation in social media. The empirical basis of the proposed case study consists in a corpus of comments left by users under articles about the "refugee crisis" and posted on Facebook by three Italian newspapers between 2016 and 2018. Starting from the notion of degradation of the public sphere, this study aims to critically reflect on the role of comments, trying to define a public sphere model that includes online participatory forms. On the one hand, this can promote informed citizenry and collective reflection; on the other, it may increase opinion radicalization, polarization and the spread of niche audiences. 1. Dalla tradizione teorica della sfera pubblica alla networked public sphere Il riferimento al pensiero di Jürgen Habermas 1 rappresenta un passaggio obbligato al fine di riflettere attorno alla rete come spazio di sfera pubblica e costituisce un inevitabile punto di partenza per sviluppare l'analisi delle forme più recenti di dibattito pubblico online. Sebbene il modello di sfera pubblica e l'etica del discorso elaborata da Habermas abbiano sollevato una serie di questioni critiche, essi forniscono un orizzonte normativo per pensare ai nuovi media, alla partecipazione e al giornalismo, ispirando innumerevoli iniziative di ricerca (Dahlgren, 2013). Nonostante la vasta ed eterogenea letteratura pluridisciplinare, vi è ampio accordo nel definire la sfera pubblica come un'arena discorsiva nella quale si dibattono i problemi e le istanze della società, ossia i temi che riguardano tutti i cittadini e sono di interesse generale, secondo un "moto di generazione" degli argomenti che è cambiato nel corso degli anni, così come sono cambiati gli strumenti di comunicazione (Mazzoli 2012, p. 20). La concettualizzazione tradizionale di sfera pubblica mette in luce gli ideali democratici sui quali viene costruita l'etica del discorso. Tali ideali invocano una discussione pubblica che vede i partecipanti impegnati nella mutua comprensione dell'altro attraverso il rispetto di principi basilari come il pluralismo e la tolleranza che implicano l'assunzione di azioni che aderiscono a un protocollo razionale ed etico della conversazione (Ruiz et al. 2011). Il discorso razionale necessita, dunque, di essere pubblico ed inclusivo, capace di assegnare uguali diritti alla comunicazione dei partecipanti ed esige sincerità al fine di far emergere la migliore argomentazione razionale (Habermas 1992). Tali presupposti rappresentano una situazione linguistica e discorsiva definita ideale 2 nella quale tutti i partecipanti sono impegnati nella ricerca delle verità senza agire in modo strategico (Habermas 1983). 1 Il testo più noto e citato, Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit del 1962, tradotto in inglese nel 1989 come The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, e in italiano nel 1974 come Storia e critica dell'opinione pubblica, è diventato il riferimento fondamentale per diverse discipline accademiche dalla sociologia, dai media studies alla scienza politica fino alla filosofia politica. 2 Si riportano le parole di Habermas: "Coloro che partecipano all'argomentazione non possono fare a meno di presupporre che la struttura delle loro comunicazione escluda, per via di caratteristiche da descrivere formalmente, qualsiasi coazione che, oltre a quella costituita dall'argomento migliore, influisca dall'esterno sul processo di intesa o ne derivi, e quindi neutralizzi ogni movente che non sia quello della ricerca cooperativa della verità" (Habermas 1983, p. 99).
The main aim of this paper regards identify old and emerging forms of representation of migration... more The main aim of this paper regards identify old and emerging forms of representation of migration crises produced by users in Facebook pages. The analysis is focused on the role of Facebook users and on their comments on news that concern refugees and asylum seekers. It will be used critical discourse analysis conducted on comments to identify some discourses which are used to disguise and to legitimate discriminations and to understand forms of representation in the online public sphere.
giving the opportunity to extend communication and political possibilities (Dahlgren 2013).
This ... more giving the opportunity to extend communication and political possibilities (Dahlgren 2013). This paper aims to focus on Social Network Sites comments produced by users in Facebook page of Italian newspapers. On one hand, online comments allow citizens to access to the public sphere, express and understand part of public opinion and they generally represent one of the main common forms in everyday use of Social Network Sites (Lovink 2008). On the other hand, comments create new questions about risky sides of online participation that can result in opinion polarization, fragmented participation and, in extreme cases, in hate speech and online hostility. Since this, SNS comments can be integrated and included into the theoretical framework of online public sphere, which could be meant as fragmented spaces that promote micro-climates opinion, denying space of discussion (Papacharissi 2004; Dahlgren 2005; Murru 2011; Rega 2014). Indeed, this paper intends to go beyond the traditional definition of the public sphere in an Habermasian sense, based on rational debate and deliberation, and it tries to define a new model of public sphere able to understand better political participation forms, increasingly isolates and atomized. In facts, in this new model of the public sphere, the comment practices tests unconventional participation forms in which interactions tend to decrease, generating new forms of collectives solitude redefining and making more complex the public sphere notion. Within the online participatory culture, where the number of people who produce contents is bigger than who can read them (Lovink 2008), which meanings assumed thousand of comments produced everyday on social media if they are often ignored? The case study is focused on Facebook pages of 3 Italian newspapers. They represent a journalism in transition (Sorrentino 2015) because old and new journalistic and media practices are mixed together in new formulas contributing to making complex the contemporary hybrid media system (Chadwick 2013). Contemporary refugees crisis is the topic chosen as one of the main public discussion theme frequently discussed on social media. Through a qualitative content analysis on users comments, this paper aims to identify main forms of engagement and participation that emerge from comments related to newspaper posts about refugees crisis. Preliminary results suggest that comments allow opinion expression that reinforces ideological position, contributing to create opinion polarization, but at the same time, also individual atomization.
Reflecting on these topics means deepen the interaction scarceness between users, political actors and news media. These dynamics generate a typical social media and web 2.0 paradox: high frequented spaces where users generate contents that represent always more communication forms that are isolated and hidden within flows of data that tends to instant obsolescence.
The 'Refugee crisis' has been accompanied by a radical shift of public attitudes toward NGOs oper... more The 'Refugee crisis' has been accompanied by a radical shift of public attitudes toward NGOs operating in the southern Mediterranean, whose image has quickly turned from 'saviors of the sea' to 'sea taxis' by practices of re-contextualization of migration discourses. Less attention has been directed towards the ways such criminalization of solidarity affected migrant representation and identities in turn, especially on social media. This study aims to cast a new light on the discursive practices of criminalizing NGOs and their role in shaping the dichotomy 'Us vs Them'. The case study focuses on Twitter as a privileged arena, where different categories of users are involved in the criminalization of NGOs, fostering the normalization of anti-immigration rhetoric, thus creating room for populist and sovereigntist ideologies. Based on a corpus composed of more than 800.000 tweets posted between 2017 and 2020, this study adopts a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including corpus linguistics and discursive strategies. Findings show that the NGO criminalization is part of the broader process of normalization of anti-immigration rhetoric, legitimizing restrictive migration policies, fostering the building of a sovereigntist political identity and neglecting immigrants' and refugees' own identities and rights. Specifically, results highlight a new articulation of the Us vs Them dichotomy where 'Us' is represented by the in-group, a new 'Them' is represented by the NGO and 'Those' is represented by migrants. The research output as a whole seems to consolidate a present and future trajectory regarding the political discourse on migration that is based on a progressive redefinition of the attributes of illegality/crime that shifts from migrants to rescuers.
In this article we analyse how the immigration issue is narrated during the
Covid-19 outbreak by ... more In this article we analyse how the immigration issue is narrated during the Covid-19 outbreak by several Italian political actors. We select Facebook as the main digital arena of political communication in the Italian public sphere. Quantitative analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis have been applied to politicians’ posts aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the politicization of the issue. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by politicians do not only include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus, but the migratory narration is systematically organized on negative campaigning blaming political opponents. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the Covid-19 outbreak and how the politicization of the migration serves as a context for the normalization of migrant’s exclusion
1 "We", "them" and "those": the recontextualisation of pepole, NGOs and refugees in sovereignst d... more 1 "We", "them" and "those": the recontextualisation of pepole, NGOs and refugees in sovereignst discourse. The paper is aimed at understanding whether and how the criminalisation of NGOs has affected the discursive construction of identity and representations of migrants, Italians and NGOs themselves, assessing which aspects have consolidated and which have changed. The study considers Twitter as a privileged arena to understand public debate: the paper is focused on "common users", by analysing their linguistic, paratextual and discursive strategies. The research is based on a corpus of over 800,000 tweets published between 2017 and 2020, adopting a combination of digital corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis methods. The combination of these analyses has shown that the emergence of criminalising rhetoric towards NGOs entails the following outputs: on the one hand, it sheds light on the relations between identity and otherness by re-articulating the relationship between 'us' and 'them' within media representations of migratory phenomena; on the other hand, it allows us to understand the development of the sovereignist political imagery, as an evolution of nationalism and right-wing populism. Research outputs highlight a strong de-humanisation of migrants through passivisation, impersonalisation and objectification. Through the study of the criminalisation of NGOs, this work contributes to shed new light on the static and dynamic elements of the media representation of migration in Italy and migrants' identities.
Da diversi anni l’Università di Padova registra una marcata crescita di studenti e studentesse st... more Da diversi anni l’Università di Padova registra una marcata crescita di studenti e studentesse straniere che scelgono l’Ateneo patavino consolidando una comunità studentesca sempre più internazionale. Il contributo presenta il lavoro di ricerca svolto tra il 2019 e il 2020 relativo al processo di internazionalizzazione dell’Università di Padova e in particolare alle esperienze di studenti e studentesse internazionali o inserite in programma di mobilità. L’arrivo del virus ha inevitabilmente modificato il ruolo di Padova come snodo internazionale mettendone alla prova l’internazionalizzazione nel campo universitario e nelle relazioni con il tessuto urbano. All’interno di questa cornice, la ricerca intende sviluppare alcune conoscenze sufficienti a individuare potenzialità e rischi relativi all’Ateneo e al rapporto con la città al fine di proporre e sviluppare interventi di coordinamento e implementazione dell’internazionalizzazione attraverso strategie di promozione, proposta e progettazione di politiche per migliorare la visibilità e l’attrattività internazionale della città e dell’Ateneo
Through the combination of digital methods, corpus linguistics and
critical discourse analysis, t... more Through the combination of digital methods, corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, the article investigates the role of Twitter journalism in the process of criminalization of NGOs in the Italian public debate on immigration between 2017 and 2020. Starting from a a theoretical framework that brings together the populist anti-immigration discourse and its integration with the notion of sovereignsm, the research is aimed at: i) analyzing changes in the discourse about the role of NGOs in migration issues; ii) intercept discursive re-contextualization of the populist anti-immigration rhetoric; iii) investigate the role of journalism in these processes. Findings show that NGO’s criminalization is constructed and normalized by a discourse that has progressively shifted its focus from migrants to NGO volunteers, within a general discursive framework where anti ONG claims are deeply embedded in populist / sovereignst stances.
Come è cambiata l'organizzazione degli spazi domestici legati alla dimensione musicale in rel... more Come è cambiata l'organizzazione degli spazi domestici legati alla dimensione musicale in relazione a nuove tecnologie e nuove pratiche di ascolto? L'ascolto della musica è, per una parte degli ascoltatori, un'attività importante, complessa e variegata, non solo legata allo svago e al tempo libero. In questo articolo si tenta di fornire solo qualche linea-guida generale per comprendere le trasformazioni dell'ascolto domestico, senza alcuna pretesa di completezza nell'analisi.
Following the critical discourse analysis approach, this article intends to highlight how the ant... more Following the critical discourse analysis approach, this article intends to highlight how the anti-immigration perspective is (re)produced within the Facebook page of the Italian political leader Matteo Salvini during the pandemic scenario between March 2020–March 2021. Quantitative and qualitative analysis have been applied to Salvini’s posts and users’ comments aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the process of “securitization” of national borders as well as the re-legitimation of national identities. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by the political leader do not include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus. Rather, Salvini systematically organized the migratory narration on negative campaigning blaming political opponents and recontextualized the moralization of borders. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the...
My research aims to investigate the role of Facebook users in the construction of the current “re... more My research aims to investigate the role of Facebook users in the construction of the current “refugee crisis” representations. Although Social Networks Sites are recognized as spaces for expressing the public opinion and engaging in the public discussion, fewer Italian researches are focused on the contemporary refugee crisis representations that emerge from Facebook users. Since this, the focus of my research is to consider and analyze user comments as forms of articulating voices that show a part, often ignored, of the public opinion able to enrich the media representations. The empirical material is collected from 3 Facebook pages of Italian newspapers and their posts about the narration of the refugee crisis. These pages are one of the main common sources where people read news in their everyday life and they also represent a journalism in transition: in fact, they manifest the continuity between traditional forms of journalismand new ones, but at the same time they also repres...
This contribution intends to highlight how narratives of Europe are discursively constructed in o... more This contribution intends to highlight how narratives of Europe are discursively constructed in online public arenas of Facebook pages of Italian newspapers. The main aim is to analyse newspaper posts and users' comments which foster narratives that exhibit the Eurosceptic discourse in the 'refugee crisis' scenario between 2016 and 2018. The case study focuses on Italy as a core player in terms of anti-European sentiments which are increasingly present in public opinion. Critical Discourse Analysis has been applied to posts and comments, aiming at identifying the strategic discourses and the patterns of convergence or divergence that contribute to narratives of Europe. Firstly, findings show the discoursive recontextualization of common patterns between newspapers and users. Secondly, results also highlight that users' comments diverge from newspapers showing anti-immigration positions and hostility towards the EU even when newspapers adopted a neutral narrative. Finally, the study underlines the importance of the hybridization of communicative practices that both enrich the media system and discursive construction of narratives of Europe.
LA "CRISI MIGRATORIA" E LA CRISI DELLA SFERA PUBBLICA, 2019
This paper analyses the quality of the online public debate about the contemporary migration phen... more This paper analyses the quality of the online public debate about the contemporary migration phenomenon known as 'refugee crisis' to detect some characteristics of participation and re-articulate the themes developed in the online public sphere. Specifically, the paper analyses the debate encouraged by users on Facebook through their comments as a practice of access and participation in social media. The empirical basis of the proposed case study consists in a corpus of comments left by users under articles about the "refugee crisis" and posted on Facebook by three Italian newspapers between 2016 and 2018. Starting from the notion of degradation of the public sphere, this study aims to critically reflect on the role of comments, trying to define a public sphere model that includes online participatory forms. On the one hand, this can promote informed citizenry and collective reflection; on the other, it may increase opinion radicalization, polarization and the spread of niche audiences. 1. Dalla tradizione teorica della sfera pubblica alla networked public sphere Il riferimento al pensiero di Jürgen Habermas 1 rappresenta un passaggio obbligato al fine di riflettere attorno alla rete come spazio di sfera pubblica e costituisce un inevitabile punto di partenza per sviluppare l'analisi delle forme più recenti di dibattito pubblico online. Sebbene il modello di sfera pubblica e l'etica del discorso elaborata da Habermas abbiano sollevato una serie di questioni critiche, essi forniscono un orizzonte normativo per pensare ai nuovi media, alla partecipazione e al giornalismo, ispirando innumerevoli iniziative di ricerca (Dahlgren, 2013). Nonostante la vasta ed eterogenea letteratura pluridisciplinare, vi è ampio accordo nel definire la sfera pubblica come un'arena discorsiva nella quale si dibattono i problemi e le istanze della società, ossia i temi che riguardano tutti i cittadini e sono di interesse generale, secondo un "moto di generazione" degli argomenti che è cambiato nel corso degli anni, così come sono cambiati gli strumenti di comunicazione (Mazzoli 2012, p. 20). La concettualizzazione tradizionale di sfera pubblica mette in luce gli ideali democratici sui quali viene costruita l'etica del discorso. Tali ideali invocano una discussione pubblica che vede i partecipanti impegnati nella mutua comprensione dell'altro attraverso il rispetto di principi basilari come il pluralismo e la tolleranza che implicano l'assunzione di azioni che aderiscono a un protocollo razionale ed etico della conversazione (Ruiz et al. 2011). Il discorso razionale necessita, dunque, di essere pubblico ed inclusivo, capace di assegnare uguali diritti alla comunicazione dei partecipanti ed esige sincerità al fine di far emergere la migliore argomentazione razionale (Habermas 1992). Tali presupposti rappresentano una situazione linguistica e discorsiva definita ideale 2 nella quale tutti i partecipanti sono impegnati nella ricerca delle verità senza agire in modo strategico (Habermas 1983). 1 Il testo più noto e citato, Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit del 1962, tradotto in inglese nel 1989 come The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, e in italiano nel 1974 come Storia e critica dell'opinione pubblica, è diventato il riferimento fondamentale per diverse discipline accademiche dalla sociologia, dai media studies alla scienza politica fino alla filosofia politica. 2 Si riportano le parole di Habermas: "Coloro che partecipano all'argomentazione non possono fare a meno di presupporre che la struttura delle loro comunicazione escluda, per via di caratteristiche da descrivere formalmente, qualsiasi coazione che, oltre a quella costituita dall'argomento migliore, influisca dall'esterno sul processo di intesa o ne derivi, e quindi neutralizzi ogni movente che non sia quello della ricerca cooperativa della verità" (Habermas 1983, p. 99).
The main aim of this paper regards identify old and emerging forms of representation of migration... more The main aim of this paper regards identify old and emerging forms of representation of migration crises produced by users in Facebook pages. The analysis is focused on the role of Facebook users and on their comments on news that concern refugees and asylum seekers. It will be used critical discourse analysis conducted on comments to identify some discourses which are used to disguise and to legitimate discriminations and to understand forms of representation in the online public sphere.
giving the opportunity to extend communication and political possibilities (Dahlgren 2013).
This ... more giving the opportunity to extend communication and political possibilities (Dahlgren 2013). This paper aims to focus on Social Network Sites comments produced by users in Facebook page of Italian newspapers. On one hand, online comments allow citizens to access to the public sphere, express and understand part of public opinion and they generally represent one of the main common forms in everyday use of Social Network Sites (Lovink 2008). On the other hand, comments create new questions about risky sides of online participation that can result in opinion polarization, fragmented participation and, in extreme cases, in hate speech and online hostility. Since this, SNS comments can be integrated and included into the theoretical framework of online public sphere, which could be meant as fragmented spaces that promote micro-climates opinion, denying space of discussion (Papacharissi 2004; Dahlgren 2005; Murru 2011; Rega 2014). Indeed, this paper intends to go beyond the traditional definition of the public sphere in an Habermasian sense, based on rational debate and deliberation, and it tries to define a new model of public sphere able to understand better political participation forms, increasingly isolates and atomized. In facts, in this new model of the public sphere, the comment practices tests unconventional participation forms in which interactions tend to decrease, generating new forms of collectives solitude redefining and making more complex the public sphere notion. Within the online participatory culture, where the number of people who produce contents is bigger than who can read them (Lovink 2008), which meanings assumed thousand of comments produced everyday on social media if they are often ignored? The case study is focused on Facebook pages of 3 Italian newspapers. They represent a journalism in transition (Sorrentino 2015) because old and new journalistic and media practices are mixed together in new formulas contributing to making complex the contemporary hybrid media system (Chadwick 2013). Contemporary refugees crisis is the topic chosen as one of the main public discussion theme frequently discussed on social media. Through a qualitative content analysis on users comments, this paper aims to identify main forms of engagement and participation that emerge from comments related to newspaper posts about refugees crisis. Preliminary results suggest that comments allow opinion expression that reinforces ideological position, contributing to create opinion polarization, but at the same time, also individual atomization.
Reflecting on these topics means deepen the interaction scarceness between users, political actors and news media. These dynamics generate a typical social media and web 2.0 paradox: high frequented spaces where users generate contents that represent always more communication forms that are isolated and hidden within flows of data that tends to instant obsolescence.
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Papers by Dario Lucchesi
Covid-19 outbreak by several Italian political actors. We select Facebook as the main digital arena of political communication in the Italian public sphere. Quantitative analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis have been applied to politicians’ posts aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the politicization of the issue. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by politicians do not only include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus, but the migratory narration is systematically organized on negative campaigning blaming political opponents. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the Covid-19 outbreak and how the politicization of the migration serves as a context for the normalization of migrant’s exclusion
strategie di promozione, proposta e progettazione di politiche per migliorare la visibilità e l’attrattività internazionale della città e dell’Ateneo
critical discourse analysis, the article investigates the role of Twitter
journalism in the process of criminalization of NGOs in the Italian
public debate on immigration between 2017 and 2020. Starting from a
a theoretical framework that brings together the populist anti-immigration
discourse and its integration with the notion of sovereignsm, the research
is aimed at: i) analyzing changes in the discourse about the role of NGOs
in migration issues; ii) intercept discursive re-contextualization of the
populist anti-immigration rhetoric; iii) investigate the role of journalism
in these processes. Findings show that NGO’s criminalization is constructed
and normalized by a discourse that has progressively shifted
its focus from migrants to NGO volunteers, within a general discursive
framework where anti ONG claims are deeply embedded in populist /
sovereignst stances.
Drafts by Dario Lucchesi
This paper aims to focus on Social Network Sites comments produced by users in Facebook page of Italian newspapers. On one hand, online comments allow citizens to access to the public sphere, express and understand part of public opinion and they generally represent one of the main common forms in everyday use of Social Network Sites (Lovink 2008). On the other hand, comments create new questions about risky sides of online participation that can result in opinion polarization, fragmented participation and, in extreme cases, in hate speech and online hostility.
Since this, SNS comments can be integrated and included into the theoretical framework of online public sphere, which could be meant as fragmented spaces that promote micro-climates opinion, denying space of discussion (Papacharissi 2004; Dahlgren 2005; Murru 2011; Rega 2014). Indeed, this paper intends to go beyond the traditional definition of the public sphere in an Habermasian sense, based on rational debate and deliberation, and it tries to define a new model of public sphere able to understand better political participation forms, increasingly isolates and atomized. In facts, in this new model of the public sphere, the comment practices tests unconventional participation forms in which interactions tend to decrease, generating new forms of collectives solitude redefining and making more complex the public sphere notion. Within the online participatory culture, where the number of people who produce contents is bigger than who can read them (Lovink 2008), which meanings assumed thousand of comments produced everyday on social media if they are often ignored?
The case study is focused on Facebook pages of 3 Italian newspapers. They represent a journalism in transition (Sorrentino 2015) because old and new journalistic and media practices are mixed together in new formulas contributing to making complex the contemporary hybrid media system (Chadwick 2013). Contemporary refugees crisis is the topic chosen as one of the main public discussion theme frequently discussed on social media. Through a qualitative content analysis on users comments, this paper aims to identify main forms of engagement and participation that emerge from comments related to newspaper posts about refugees crisis. Preliminary results suggest that comments allow opinion expression that reinforces ideological position, contributing to create opinion polarization, but at the same time, also individual atomization.
Reflecting on these topics means deepen the interaction scarceness between users, political actors and news media. These dynamics generate a typical social media and web 2.0 paradox: high frequented spaces where users generate contents that represent always more communication forms that are isolated and hidden within flows of data that tends to instant obsolescence.
Covid-19 outbreak by several Italian political actors. We select Facebook as the main digital arena of political communication in the Italian public sphere. Quantitative analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis have been applied to politicians’ posts aiming at identifying the linguistic strategies that contribute to instrumentalizing the emergency and aim to reinforce the politicization of the issue. Findings suggest that the main discursive strategies used by politicians do not only include migrants as a danger for the spread of the virus, but the migratory narration is systematically organized on negative campaigning blaming political opponents. The contribution helps to reveal how the anti-migration discourse is reproduced during the Covid-19 outbreak and how the politicization of the migration serves as a context for the normalization of migrant’s exclusion
strategie di promozione, proposta e progettazione di politiche per migliorare la visibilità e l’attrattività internazionale della città e dell’Ateneo
critical discourse analysis, the article investigates the role of Twitter
journalism in the process of criminalization of NGOs in the Italian
public debate on immigration between 2017 and 2020. Starting from a
a theoretical framework that brings together the populist anti-immigration
discourse and its integration with the notion of sovereignsm, the research
is aimed at: i) analyzing changes in the discourse about the role of NGOs
in migration issues; ii) intercept discursive re-contextualization of the
populist anti-immigration rhetoric; iii) investigate the role of journalism
in these processes. Findings show that NGO’s criminalization is constructed
and normalized by a discourse that has progressively shifted
its focus from migrants to NGO volunteers, within a general discursive
framework where anti ONG claims are deeply embedded in populist /
sovereignst stances.
This paper aims to focus on Social Network Sites comments produced by users in Facebook page of Italian newspapers. On one hand, online comments allow citizens to access to the public sphere, express and understand part of public opinion and they generally represent one of the main common forms in everyday use of Social Network Sites (Lovink 2008). On the other hand, comments create new questions about risky sides of online participation that can result in opinion polarization, fragmented participation and, in extreme cases, in hate speech and online hostility.
Since this, SNS comments can be integrated and included into the theoretical framework of online public sphere, which could be meant as fragmented spaces that promote micro-climates opinion, denying space of discussion (Papacharissi 2004; Dahlgren 2005; Murru 2011; Rega 2014). Indeed, this paper intends to go beyond the traditional definition of the public sphere in an Habermasian sense, based on rational debate and deliberation, and it tries to define a new model of public sphere able to understand better political participation forms, increasingly isolates and atomized. In facts, in this new model of the public sphere, the comment practices tests unconventional participation forms in which interactions tend to decrease, generating new forms of collectives solitude redefining and making more complex the public sphere notion. Within the online participatory culture, where the number of people who produce contents is bigger than who can read them (Lovink 2008), which meanings assumed thousand of comments produced everyday on social media if they are often ignored?
The case study is focused on Facebook pages of 3 Italian newspapers. They represent a journalism in transition (Sorrentino 2015) because old and new journalistic and media practices are mixed together in new formulas contributing to making complex the contemporary hybrid media system (Chadwick 2013). Contemporary refugees crisis is the topic chosen as one of the main public discussion theme frequently discussed on social media. Through a qualitative content analysis on users comments, this paper aims to identify main forms of engagement and participation that emerge from comments related to newspaper posts about refugees crisis. Preliminary results suggest that comments allow opinion expression that reinforces ideological position, contributing to create opinion polarization, but at the same time, also individual atomization.
Reflecting on these topics means deepen the interaction scarceness between users, political actors and news media. These dynamics generate a typical social media and web 2.0 paradox: high frequented spaces where users generate contents that represent always more communication forms that are isolated and hidden within flows of data that tends to instant obsolescence.