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Aligning personal and collective interests in emerging adults during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy

2021

This study investigated the relations of emerging adults' personal (civic competence and interdependent self-construal) and community-based (sense of community and civic engagement) resources as predictors of appraisal of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) and attitudes toward preventing contagion in Italy. Participants were 2873 Italian emerging adults (71% females) aged 19-30 years (M = 22.67, SD = 2.82). Structural equation modeling revealed both direct and indirect positive associations among study variables. Civic competence and interdependent self-construal were related to sense of community and civic engagement behavior which, in turn, predicted appraisal of PHEM. App…

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Civic engagement, corporate social responsibility and the fight against the extortion racket

2019

The chapter focuses on the concept of civic engagement, paying primary attention to the social responsibilities of business owners who are consolidated in the moment in which they decide to cooperate with each other and to collaborate with the police force in favour of action against criminality of a mafia nature. In the following pages, the author examines the reasons given by some business owners for their rebellion against the extortion rackets.

Extortion civic engagement criminality crime.Settore SPS/12 - Sociologia Giuridica Della Devianza E Mutamento Sociale
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Journalism and fake news in the Covid-19 era. Perspectives for media education in Italy

2020

In this article, drawing from the data collected by the AGCOM during the pandemic crisis, we argue that the emergence of COVID 19 has made more evident the new relationships between the informative cybercascades, the significant need of news during a crisis, the presence of disinformation online, and the relevant consequences on collective narrations, often producing a generalized panic. We also argue that infotainment can be considered a critical turning point in the relationship between true and false in the news because of its fusion of facts, drama, and emotional narrative frames so that it is no longer possible to separate reality from media reconstruction of it. We finally argue that …

Journalism fake news civic engagement infotainment media educationSettore SPS/08 - Sociologia Dei Processi Culturali E ComunicativiCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Political scienceMedia studiesJournalismFake newsMedia Education
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