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Iperestetica. Arte, natura, vita quotidiana e nuove tecnologie
2012
La società odierna è caratterizzata dall’eccesso, dall’esasperata ricerca di bellezza sia psico-fisica (dalla ginnastica allo yoga, dalla moda alla cosmetica, dalla chirurgia estetica all’ingegneria genetica) sia materiale (dagli abiti agli accessori, dal telefonino all’automobile). Di fronte a questa realtà in cui l’apparenza, il piacere e il divertimento sono divenuti, in ogni campo, gli obiettivi dominanti l’estetica deve sforzarsi di superare i confini “canonici” di un’astratta speculazione accademica al fine di orientare in senso pragmatico la sfera d’indagine. Diviene, quindi, sempre più urgente individuare nuove categorie e adottare più adeguati modelli epistemologici. Da qui l’ipote…
Ad ogni società i propri media
2019
In these short notes I will try to offer some reflections starting from what has been punctually and preciously highlighted on this working morning. Mario Morcellini addressed - referring to some cases explicitly and, indirectly, considering them anyway relevant for the issue - the issue of values in the media e the urgent need for an "ethical reading" of media. An ethical reading - out of any guiding presumption and / or legislation - which reaffirms not only the fact, now increasingly sedimented through research carried out over the years on so-called traditional media and the latest research on new media, that the mitopoiesis of a neutrality of the medium is, for the note, misleading. Bu…
Tra non voto e rete. La partecipazione politica in Italia dalla Prima alla Seconda Repubblica
2015
Il saggio analizza le specificità della partecipazione politica in Italia, focalizzando l'attenzione sul nuovo significato del non voto e sulle potenzialità delle nuove tecnologie della comunicazione
“Fear No More”: Gender Politics and the “Hell” of New Media Technologies in Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline (2014)
2018
The paper focuses on Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline (2014), a modernized re-telling of Shakespeare’s play in which the Briton motorcycle gang, led by drug kingpin Cymbeline, comes into conflict with the Rome police force, led by Caius Lucius. In the film, which has been defined as “Shakespeare in the Instagram age,” sustained attention to media practices and technologies competes with the incorporation of textual material. In particular, the film displays a conflict between old media, including Shakespearean textual inscriptions (e.g. the “Fear No More” woodcut that Posthumus makes and sends to Imogen as a gift), and new media technologies, pervasively associated with perverse visualization …
Adolescenti, new media, nuove relazioni
2009
Yo logo(s): On the icono-plastic configuration of brand symbols
2015
Among the various areas with which the vast research field of branding is concerned, brand image is recognized as a territory most pertinently analyzed with semiotic tools, since it is populated by symbols that are amenable to interpretation, such as brand logos. According to Henderson and Cote (1998), logos are graphic designs that companies uses, with or without their name, to identify themselves or their products. Semiotics, and particularly structuralist semiotics (e.g., Floch 1990,1995; Landowski 1989; Fabbri 1998; Marrone 2001, 2007), has largely abandoned the scrutiny of symbols and signs as standalone objects of analysis, in favour of the conditions of meaning that underlie brand na…
Introduzione (1. Le prospettive del capitale sociale, 2. In re: il convegno trapanese,3. Ex post: i contributi alla riflessione, 4. Capitale sociale …
2008
La tripartizione del volume curato dall’autrice obbliga la medesima ad una ricostruzione degli snodi concettuali che ne ricostituiscono il denominatore comune. Il saggio descrive e argomenta gli elementi teorici ed empirici che legano il Capitale sociale ai concetti di Rete e di New Media. Il c.s., oltre ad essere “una realtà emergenziale”, si realizza come “qualità delle relazioni sociali”, come una “variabile interveniente” che si rafforza attraverso la Rete, proprio nello scambio di esperienze, opinioni e riflessioni con altri attori sociali coinvolti, anche se separati spazialmente, nello stesso processo di democrazia partecipativa allargata. Allo stesso tempo il c.s. rivela le struttur…
The two cultures: Scientists and journalists, not an outdated relationship.
2013
The relationship between scientists and journalists is much better than its image. Scientists not only believe that public communication is a duty, but also that media visibility is beneficial for them. The scientific culture differs from that of journalism, which causes partly discrepant expectations; but in most cases these do not preclude satisfying interactions between journalists and scientists. The traditional relationship between science and journalism is challenged by the rise of new online media. These provide opportunities for scientists and scientific organizations to communicate directly with the public via websites, blogs and social networks. Science journalism seems to be in a…
Open Source and New Media Artists
2007
This paper deals with the open source method practiced within the new media art context. I present a case study on an international festival, PixelACHE 2005, which was organized by and for new media artists and served as a platform for demonstrations of new media projects and as a meeting place for experimental new media artists. In this article I discuss how new media artists adapted the open source ideology. Open source is seen both as a more liberal method of distribution and as an open joint creative process. I was particularly interested in what kind of motives the new media artists had for taking part in the PixelACHE festival and the joint artistic creative process. In my analysis, I…