Internet Governance Forum 2015
Promoted by the United Nations since 2006, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) takes place every year, more or less between October and November. This year the date is November 10-13, 2015 and will take place in João …
complexity
Social systems, complex organizations and the "responsibility" principle: looking for a new development model. The (crucial) question of sustainability.
«… the character of sustainability implies the return of part of the value produced: to a territory, to the community in which we live, to future generations. After all, sustainability is nothing more than the answer to …
In Bologna, in October, the Smart City Festival
The world is changing, says our Prime Minister Renzi, and in the end he is right, because what is changing the social structure is a new way of interpreting relationships, institutional relations, connections ...
For gender-conscious communication: a complex path. Between the regulatory framework, guidelines, deontology and… ethical issues
Stimulated by Isa Maggi's reflection on Corriere della Sera's La 27esimaora and, more generally, by the articulation of the public debate – which, unfortunately, cannot fail to follow and adapt to the emotional outbursts of the media system …
CULTURE: "engine" of change and agent of citizenship. The importance of a systemic vision
In recent decades, culture has been narrated/narrated, not only by politics, and perceived by public opinion, above all as a "luxury" that we could no longer afford; huge cuts and continuous (counter) reforms (so, we talked …
Communication for citizenship and the risk of being "subjects" in a democracy.
Let's immediately try to fix some fixed points, almost "facts" on which - I believe - we can agree: the close, very close, existing correlation between communication (it is good to clarify this, understood as access, sharing, ...
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The new ecosystem of the Internet between inclusion and exclusion
The progressive diffusion of new means of communication, with a high rate of technological innovation, is upsetting social and political architectures, favoring the affirmation of a new mode of economic production entirely based on possession, the ability ...
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The virtuous power of social networks and the discomfort of democracy
In a fine book from 2011, The Discomfort of Democracy, Carlo Galli addresses the fundamental theme of democracy, speaking of a double type of "discomfort": a) a subjective discomfort, linked to a citizen who, instead ...
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The condition of # knowledge in the knowledge society: between sharing and "technical" reproducibility (?)
(You will certainly have noticed - but I stress it equally for clarity and correctness - that in the title of this contribution it is recovered unworthily, and forcing it - even if on the dependence of culture on politics there is ...