This document summarizes research from the SNSItalia.it project which studied how social networks like Facebook impact intimacy and the boundary between private and public for Italian users. The research included 120 in-depth interviews with Facebook users across Italy and analyzed data from some users' Facebook apps. It identifies a concept of "Networked Intimacy" where intimacy takes place in networked public spaces through ephemeral groups that reshape public/private boundaries. Networked Intimacy is shaped by platform features like likes and tags. The research questions how intimacy and private/public boundaries are redefined through social technologies.
This document summarizes research from the SNSItalia.it project which studied how social networks like Facebook impact intimacy and the boundary between private and public for Italian users. The research included 120 in-depth interviews with Facebook users across Italy and analyzed data from some users' Facebook apps. It identifies a concept of "Networked Intimacy" where intimacy takes place in networked public spaces through ephemeral groups that reshape public/private boundaries. Networked Intimacy is shaped by platform features like likes and tags. The research questions how intimacy and private/public boundaries are redefined through social technologies.
Visualizing the catastrophe. The Images of Italian #Earthquake on TwitterGiovanni Boccia Artieri
The paper starts from an apparently simple point of view: on the one hand catastrophes and disasters are relevant visual phenomena, on the other hand scholars must observe Social Network Sites – as Twitter – that are environments based on images sharing.
As we know, nowadays, during the environmental disasters, we are witnessing the emergence of a particular attraction to an idea of fatalism that inevitably belongs to the overwhelming events of the nature. This explains why the catastrophe is an experience that leads to many practices of symbolic reinterpretation.
Now, one of the social spaces in which finding these practices of reinterpretation are the users' images of the natural disasters shared on SNSs.
The paper presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on a sample of 4256 images uploaded on Twitter during the first day of the earthquake that happened in northern Italy May 20, 2012. On the basis of this analysis, a taxonomy of images is built to confirm the hypothesis of the work: that is, during catastrophic events, the image has not just a function of refero, i.e showing the drama, nor exclusively of religo, i.e building social bonds. The images shared through SNSs, instead, aim at giving a symbolic meaning to catastrophe, turning the dramatic experience into an evidence of our vulnerability to the arrogance of human civilization and an opportunity to establish new rituals of socialization and collective regeneration.
Since the last common ancestor shared by modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, the lineage leading to Homo sapiens
has undergone a substantial change in brain size and organization. As a result, modern humans display striking differences from the living apes in the realm of cognition and linguistic expression. In this article, we review the evolutionary changes that occurred in the descent of Homo sapiens by reconstructing the neural and cognitive traits that would have characterized the last common ancestor and comparing these with the modern human condition. The last common ancestor can be reconstructed to have had a brain of approximately 300–400 g that displayed several unique phylogenetic specializations of development, anatomical organization, and biochemical function. These neuroanatomical substrates contributed to the enhancement of behavioral flexibility and social cognition. With this evolutionary history as precursor, the modern human mind may be conceived as a mosaic of traits inherited from a common ancestry with our close relatives, along with the addition of volutionary specializations within particular domains. These modern human-specific cognitive and linguistic adaptations
appear to be correlated with enlargement of the neocortex and related structures. Accompanying this general neocortical expansion, certain higher-order unimodal and multimodal cortical areas have grown disproportionately relative to primary cortical areas. Anatomical and molecular changes have also been identified that might relate to the greater metabolic demand and enhanced synaptic plasticity of modern human brain’s. Finally, the unique brain growth trajectory of modern humans has made a significant contribution to our species’ cognitive and linguistic abilities.
1) The document analyzes tweets about the documentary Citizenfour, which features Edward Snowden discussing government surveillance.
2) It finds three main themes in the tweets: concerns about informational privacy due to government data collection; concerns about accessibility privacy due to invasive surveillance programs; and expressions of privacy through jokes and discussions of self-censorship.
3) The analysis concludes that the documentary stimulated audience reflexivity about privacy in terms of control over private/public boundaries, individuals' attitudes, and choices about surveillance and behavior.
Il modello di Tomasello sull'origine della comunicazione e le sue implicazion...Portale Autismo
Il modello di Tomasello sull'origine della comunicazione e le sue implicazioni per la clinica dei disturbi dello spettro autistico.
Giovanni Valeri - Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù - Roma
Castel Ivano (Trento) - 15/16 ottobre 2010
The Process Model of Communication focuses on efficient transmission of messages from sender to receiver but fails to account for important factors like feedback, cultural context, and ambiguity. It views communication as a one-way street controlled by the sender, overlooking the receiver's role. Barriers to effective communication can be mechanical, psychological, semantic, or organizational in nature. Jakobson's model identifies six functions of communication including the emotive, referential, poetic, phatic, metalingual, and conative functions.
This document discusses the history of communication from early methods like smoke signals and drums to modern technologies like radio, television, and the internet. It begins with cave drawings and progresses through messenger pigeons, smoke signals, drums, flags at sea, telegraphs, telephones, and radio. The development of writing and languages like Aramaic and Latin helped communication become more efficient over long distances. New transportation networks for messengers also made delivering messages more reliable. Major inventions in the 18th-19th centuries included the telegraph, telephone, and radio, while the 20th century brought television, computers, and the internet.
‘If you need a scientific proof… GIVE IT A TRY!!’ A multi-method analysis of ...Giovanni Boccia Artieri
A multi-method analysis of Facebook comments sparkled by an episode of a popular Italian TV show named PresaDiretta.
How networked publics operate in the so-called “post truth” era, analyzing discussions on the „alternative“ cancer treatments on an Italian broadcaster’s Facebook page in reaction to a critical program.
The document summarizes research on how Italian media establishes social meanings around infertility. It analyzes 373 newspaper articles on infertility from 1998-2008 and grassroots communication online. Traditional media builds reflexivity and references experts, while online communication empowers citizens to share stories and build understanding through conversation. Both spheres influence culture around reproductive health.
1. The document analyzes art and performances in Second Life, noting how it allows for low barriers to expression, strong support for creating and sharing, and informal mentorship.
2. It discusses an example performance by Gazira Babeli that engaged avatars in both Second Life and a real art gallery, demonstrating participatory culture.
3. After the event, users generated online content reflecting on and spreading information about the performance, feeling engaged as performers themselves.
1. SecondLife is being used as a platform to observe virtual travel and the communication of imagined landscapes.
2. An experiment called LucaniaLab was conducted in SecondLife to study how avatars interact with and experience virtual representations of real landscapes in Basilicata, Italy.
3. Interviews with avatars found that SecondLife fulfilled their need to travel and experience new places, both through realistic landscapes and more fantastical spaces.
This document summarizes a research project that aims to understand how media products influence generational identity and sense of belonging. The researchers identified 45 popular media products from different genres and collected over 3,000 blog posts that discussed these products. By analyzing the content, they found that media products can trigger generational discourses in two ways: by allowing individuals to narrate personal experiences, and by sparking wider reflections that link the product to a shared generational perspective.
Visualizing the catastrophe. The Images of Italian #Earthquake on TwitterGiovanni Boccia Artieri
The paper starts from an apparently simple point of view: on the one hand catastrophes and disasters are relevant visual phenomena, on the other hand scholars must observe Social Network Sites – as Twitter – that are environments based on images sharing.
As we know, nowadays, during the environmental disasters, we are witnessing the emergence of a particular attraction to an idea of fatalism that inevitably belongs to the overwhelming events of the nature. This explains why the catastrophe is an experience that leads to many practices of symbolic reinterpretation.
Now, one of the social spaces in which finding these practices of reinterpretation are the users' images of the natural disasters shared on SNSs.
The paper presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on a sample of 4256 images uploaded on Twitter during the first day of the earthquake that happened in northern Italy May 20, 2012. On the basis of this analysis, a taxonomy of images is built to confirm the hypothesis of the work: that is, during catastrophic events, the image has not just a function of refero, i.e showing the drama, nor exclusively of religo, i.e building social bonds. The images shared through SNSs, instead, aim at giving a symbolic meaning to catastrophe, turning the dramatic experience into an evidence of our vulnerability to the arrogance of human civilization and an opportunity to establish new rituals of socialization and collective regeneration.
Since the last common ancestor shared by modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, the lineage leading to Homo sapiens
has undergone a substantial change in brain size and organization. As a result, modern humans display striking differences from the living apes in the realm of cognition and linguistic expression. In this article, we review the evolutionary changes that occurred in the descent of Homo sapiens by reconstructing the neural and cognitive traits that would have characterized the last common ancestor and comparing these with the modern human condition. The last common ancestor can be reconstructed to have had a brain of approximately 300–400 g that displayed several unique phylogenetic specializations of development, anatomical organization, and biochemical function. These neuroanatomical substrates contributed to the enhancement of behavioral flexibility and social cognition. With this evolutionary history as precursor, the modern human mind may be conceived as a mosaic of traits inherited from a common ancestry with our close relatives, along with the addition of volutionary specializations within particular domains. These modern human-specific cognitive and linguistic adaptations
appear to be correlated with enlargement of the neocortex and related structures. Accompanying this general neocortical expansion, certain higher-order unimodal and multimodal cortical areas have grown disproportionately relative to primary cortical areas. Anatomical and molecular changes have also been identified that might relate to the greater metabolic demand and enhanced synaptic plasticity of modern human brain’s. Finally, the unique brain growth trajectory of modern humans has made a significant contribution to our species’ cognitive and linguistic abilities.
1) The document analyzes tweets about the documentary Citizenfour, which features Edward Snowden discussing government surveillance.
2) It finds three main themes in the tweets: concerns about informational privacy due to government data collection; concerns about accessibility privacy due to invasive surveillance programs; and expressions of privacy through jokes and discussions of self-censorship.
3) The analysis concludes that the documentary stimulated audience reflexivity about privacy in terms of control over private/public boundaries, individuals' attitudes, and choices about surveillance and behavior.
Il modello di Tomasello sull'origine della comunicazione e le sue implicazion...Portale Autismo
Il modello di Tomasello sull'origine della comunicazione e le sue implicazioni per la clinica dei disturbi dello spettro autistico.
Giovanni Valeri - Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù - Roma
Castel Ivano (Trento) - 15/16 ottobre 2010
The Process Model of Communication focuses on efficient transmission of messages from sender to receiver but fails to account for important factors like feedback, cultural context, and ambiguity. It views communication as a one-way street controlled by the sender, overlooking the receiver's role. Barriers to effective communication can be mechanical, psychological, semantic, or organizational in nature. Jakobson's model identifies six functions of communication including the emotive, referential, poetic, phatic, metalingual, and conative functions.
This document discusses the history of communication from early methods like smoke signals and drums to modern technologies like radio, television, and the internet. It begins with cave drawings and progresses through messenger pigeons, smoke signals, drums, flags at sea, telegraphs, telephones, and radio. The development of writing and languages like Aramaic and Latin helped communication become more efficient over long distances. New transportation networks for messengers also made delivering messages more reliable. Major inventions in the 18th-19th centuries included the telegraph, telephone, and radio, while the 20th century brought television, computers, and the internet.
‘If you need a scientific proof… GIVE IT A TRY!!’ A multi-method analysis of ...Giovanni Boccia Artieri
A multi-method analysis of Facebook comments sparkled by an episode of a popular Italian TV show named PresaDiretta.
How networked publics operate in the so-called “post truth” era, analyzing discussions on the „alternative“ cancer treatments on an Italian broadcaster’s Facebook page in reaction to a critical program.
The document summarizes research on how Italian media establishes social meanings around infertility. It analyzes 373 newspaper articles on infertility from 1998-2008 and grassroots communication online. Traditional media builds reflexivity and references experts, while online communication empowers citizens to share stories and build understanding through conversation. Both spheres influence culture around reproductive health.
1. The document analyzes art and performances in Second Life, noting how it allows for low barriers to expression, strong support for creating and sharing, and informal mentorship.
2. It discusses an example performance by Gazira Babeli that engaged avatars in both Second Life and a real art gallery, demonstrating participatory culture.
3. After the event, users generated online content reflecting on and spreading information about the performance, feeling engaged as performers themselves.
1. SecondLife is being used as a platform to observe virtual travel and the communication of imagined landscapes.
2. An experiment called LucaniaLab was conducted in SecondLife to study how avatars interact with and experience virtual representations of real landscapes in Basilicata, Italy.
3. Interviews with avatars found that SecondLife fulfilled their need to travel and experience new places, both through realistic landscapes and more fantastical spaces.
This document summarizes a research project that aims to understand how media products influence generational identity and sense of belonging. The researchers identified 45 popular media products from different genres and collected over 3,000 blog posts that discussed these products. By analyzing the content, they found that media products can trigger generational discourses in two ways: by allowing individuals to narrate personal experiences, and by sparking wider reflections that link the product to a shared generational perspective.
The goal of this paper is to present an innovative methodology to exploit user
generated content as a data source for sociological research. The methodology will be
presented by discussing a specific research case study project. The discussed research project
goal is to describe the role of media contents in the construction of generational identity
through a two step question. May specific media-products get user generated generational
discourses started? If so, may those discourses be used to investigate the shared generational
we sense?
2. “ Super Mario Land ” Una land dedicata al fandom del mondo Nintendo.
3. “ Join-pad ” L’accesso si effettua attraverso una porta a forma di ingresso joypad del Nintendo 8 Bit.
4. “ Mush Room ” Il visitatore può muoversi all’interno di un ambiente arredato con gli oggetti che caratterizzano i videogames.
5. “ The Importance of Being Mario ” Nell’immancabile angolo merchandise, si possono acquistare le skin dei fratelli Mario (Mario e Luigi). I funghi non sono compresi nel prezzo.
6. “ Shot This! ” Per i nostalgici, è presente una sezione in cui giocare al mitico Duck Hunt. Una versione tridimensionale dell’altrimento detto Caccia alla Quaglia .