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The projects commissioned to Guarino Guarini by the Order of Regular Theatine Clerics left a mark of his extraordinary ability to blend rationality and lucid imagination of geometric shapes in which the close relationship between art and science stands out. Most of realized buildings have been demolished or destroyed because of catastrophic events. Therefore, the problem of knowledge of such manufactured products arises increasing and integrating the available data with those newly acquired in emergency situations. This paper proposes a digital platform aimed to analyze and catalogue Guarini's heritage; the data sheets can be shared and easily implemented. A special section is dedicated to buildings no longer existing. The aim of this project project is to allow the faithfuls, visitors and the Fathers of the Order themselves to be able to "review" and "relive" the Theatine lost architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Printed books would be about to die in front of the advantages offered by the digital world. But for 750 million illiterates over 15 worldwide, for two-thirds women (UNESCO, 2017), literature does not go through digital or printing on paper. There is also a disturbing degree of returning or functional illiteracy, significantly affecting a part of European population. Starting from an idea of literature that is above all the art of the word, the article analyzes the (in)utility of digital media compared to the emotional impact and prestige possessed by printed books; the relationship between e-books and printed books in the self-publishing sector; the importance of the human voice as an ancient and very modern means of telling stories and conveying emotions. Recent statistical data (e.g. Pepe Research, 2020) show the success of audiobooks and podcasts in Covid times, in Italy and in the "Westernworld", and for some types of disabilities. The article underlines the need to recompose the competition between digital and printed books into a fruitful collaboration. Finally, it is highlighted that the voice is, still today and everywhere - from the hi-tech world to African storytellers -an extraordinary tool to produce and promote knowledge about literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to evaluate the scientific products of the Italian legal scholarship and make them comparable with the outputs in other scientific areas, some institutional actors have proposed to classify different scientific works (monographs, articles, notes etc.), publishers and journals. Part of learned societies in legal area have published a joint "Document on evaluation" (October 1, 2010) about methods and criteria that should be applied by various institutional organizations for several purposes. The aim of this paper is to offer a critique of that document, as well as to suggest that digital technologies (in particular, Open Access to science) might play a prominent role in the evaluation of products in the legal science field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism communication, especially since the digital turn, has registered several attempts to open to new forms of multilingualism. For instance, the traditional multilingual experience offered by guided tours and audio guides has now been enhanced by social networking tools. Recent research points to the need of interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of linguistics, media sciences and museum studies to investigate communication strategies and linguistic devices by means of which an international audience of tourists can be addressed and get involved in museums in the digital age. The present paper illustrates the first findings of the project "Museo poliglotta", a project run by two universities in the Italian towns of Bergamo and Brescia in cooperation with local museums with the goal of producing digital multilingual contents for international museum visitors. The empirical part of the paper describes a workshop activity in which students developed Instagram reels in Italian, German and English on the figure of the well-known Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. A number of observations lead to the conclusion that synergies between language research and foreign language teaching on the one hand and museum institutions on the other can bring about important benefits for all parties involved, in particular the possibility to offer professionalising training in the academic world and stimuli to innovate and improve multilingual communication in the museum sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between the reader and the text plays a fundamental role during the act of reading. The book transition from the print to the digital format entails significant changes in how the reader interacts with the text and ascribes meaning to the reading process. These changes, driven by new technological advancements, can profoundly impact the reading experience, eliciting a range of responses from reader acceptance to dissatisfaction with the chosen medium. Despite new electronic devices attempting to emulate the reading experience provided by paper books, the digital realm continues to shape our perception of reading, highlighting the differences in manipulating a physical text compared to one displayed on an e-reader screen. The paper puts forward several themes that have emerged from a case study on the perception of digital reading at the University of Salamanca (ES). The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of and insight into the preferences, expectations, and behaviors of contemporary readers, highlighting the gap that has emerged between analog and digital reading, primarily driven by the structural and aesthetic differences between the two reading formats and, consequently, their interaction with the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the face of contemporary global challenges, there is an increasing demand to communicate and reflect on environmental issues and on the delicate relationship between nature and society. The concept of Ecosystem Service, originally conceived to underscore these interconnections, has been criticized for its anthropocentric and techno-economic approach. The research draws upon the academic discourse surrounding antropocenthese topics and acknowledges the recent emergence of the Nature's Contributions to People concept and explores its potential use within participatory processes. On this theoretical basis, the paper introduces the Collective Ecosystems Toolkit, a tool comprising three components: one board game, one application, and one digital platform. The tool has been designed to accompany a participatory process regarding environmental issues and is currently under experimentation. It contributes to the body of research focused on methods for evaluating nature's values by local communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spread of digital technologies in the daily lives of subjects has produced various transformations on the cultural, social and pedagogical levels: these transformations are often summarized schematically and risk producing "false myths." These include the idea that technologies represent, in themselves, useful tools capable of promoting inclusion. The paper reflects on the dangers of exclusion generated by the digital and the pedagogical challenges to be pursued to promote more conscious and more critical uses that can truly promote inclusion on a social level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the breakdown of the normative model of employment that underpinned the mid-twentieth-century welfare state. The focus of the chapter is the slow, but continuous, dismantling of labor protections that happened in the last decades which has played a crucial role in facilitating the rise of digital platforms. Thus, while on one hand this can be related to the limits that the traditional labor protections had, especially in including women, migrants, and other usually considered more “marginal” workers; on the other it is a product of the new global division of labor and of the way in which technologies have been used to outsource and manage remote working. These developments are being expanded by the increasing “platformization” of the economy that is spreading across sectors digital management and new forms of task-based work directly controlled by algorithms. Despite the birth of new union forms, capable of intercepting the demands and defending the interests of gig workers, the paper concludes by highlighting how these achievements, despite their relevance, are not a definitive solution, but it is necessary to aim for a new set of universal workers’ rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital technologies, particularly those employed for mobile learning, drive users to perform actions that are key contributions to the learning process. Thanks to the employment of electronic devices, including those small and handy such as smartphones and tablets, learning and teaching move from being virtual to concrete processes in the development of L2 skills. This paper describes some major characteristics of portable devices and their increasingly pervasive multiple uses. Furthermore, it illustrates mobile learning by focusing on its strongly innovative pedagogical implications: a new notion of context, which is no longer a physical space in which learning takes place; the re-interpretation of the bipolar distinction between formal and informal learning; the pro-active role of learners, who can choose where, what and when to study; and finally the notion of 'delocalized community' as an agent of learning. This process of innovation and 'materialization' of learning is supported by the growing number of Educational Apps, which they have become increasingly specialized, each of them reflecting more or less innovative pedagogical designs. The spectrum varies from those proposing rote memorization of vocabulary or structural grammar exercises to more creative ones which allow learners to upload digital assets and exchange them online with other people around the world. The former reflect a behaviourist view of learning, the latter a post-costructivist and more learner-centered approach. As an example of the more innovative ones, this paper describes a recently developed App, called Linguacuisine. Finally, the paper suggests that, in order to highlight the 'materiality' of mobile learning, it is time to avoid using labels such as 'virtual exchange' when referring to events of asynchronous and synchronous communication, and prefer labels such as 'telecollaboration, online exchanges'. Recognizing 'materiality' to actions triggered by the use of technologies in learning implies questioning the potential of digital resources, managing learning needs and processes, becoming aware of the wide-reaching change in learning conditions and attitudes, and directing innovation so as to achieve maximum outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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So far, food-delivery riders have been addressed in reference to broad socio-economic processes related to the diffusion of digital labour platforms. Adopting a dispositional approach, this paper frames the rider’s occupation as a specific and openended occupation. We try to shed light on the dynamics of differentiation and positioning within this occupational space, thus recomposing its heterogeneity. The article is based on a mixed-methods research carried out in Milan in 2020, centred on an “observant participation” of seven months, during which the researcher worked as a rider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper, taking the Museum of Casa Romei in Ferrara - an UNESCO heritage city - as a case study, explores some new technologies, ranging from surveying to digital communication and investigates their potentialities in improving the sustainability of cultural heritage. The work pursues the dual value of analyzing new tools and providing research products useful for the enhancement of the specific site, favoring the dissemination of consolidated tourist flows from the major monuments of Ferrara to the more peripheral historical urban fabric. Through the theme of analysis, documentation and archiving of architecture and its context, the research - addressing specific themes of integrated and multi-scale survey, 3D processing, 2D drawing, interactive data storage - examines the use of digital technologies for multi-level dissemination of the cultural assets and their possibilities as tools for accessibility and inclusivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A shocking event such as the one experienced by the population of central Italy in 2016 highlights two problems that afflict the national heritage: the fragility of historic villages and the conservation of the historical-artistic heritage of these cultural centres. This paper intends to propose an applicative method to address the problem of the documentation and conservation of the material and intangible characteristics of the historic centre of Amatrice following an earthquake that de facto cancelled almost all the material components and therefore prevents a campaign of traditional data acquisition. The applied methodology is based on the complementarity between the analysis of unpublished historical photographic material and the digital reconstruction of each building in the city through the aid of Google Street, creating an integration between digital restitution tools, social media as iconographic sources and the contextual architectural reading of the few building fragments still in situ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This introduction to the special issue reflects on how the quality of work and working life are changing with the rise of digital technologies. We first reconstruct the current debate and plead for moving beyond polarized broad-brush, deterministic views of the effects of these technologies, on the processes of workers’ control, autonomy and subjection. Based on our own reading of the papers included in this special issue, we then discuss their conceptual and methodological contribution to the literature, identifying promising paths for future research on the complex ways in which digital technologies shape the quality of work and working life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper questions the existence of a one best way towards digitalisation by contrasting the success stories of two Italian middle-size manufacturing companies. Both companies boast a history of excellence in technological innovation and in economic performance and recently launched important projects of digital transformation. However, one company seems to perceive digitalisation as a further step in the "traditional" sequence of efficiency-enhancing innovations aimed at substituting for human effort. In contrast, the other company frames digital technologies as means of stronger process integration, whose success is enabled by formal organisational tools in support of change management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the strategies and methods for preserving Linked Open Data (LOD). To this aim it first presents an overview of the main scientific initiatives that have dealt with this topic. Then it describes some digital technologies that may result useful for preserving LOD, providing some insights on their application to LOD. It also provides a concrete example of implementation of the Semantic Web technologies for preserving Linked Data. Finally, it suggests some specific themes and directions that should be further investigated in order to elaborate a comprehensive solution to this problem: the preservation of Linked Open Data cannot be demanded to a single tool or method, it is rather the result of technical, organizational and procedural choices that altogether make up a consistent framework for LOD preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the intermediate achievements of the research project "Virtual & Real," funded by the Faculty of Education at the Free University of Bolzano. The project aim to analyze technological tools and resources currently supporting museum education. The research provided an initial phase oriented to explore and evaluate websites dedicated to Italian museums and a following process of digital content development in order to improve the impact and learning outcomes of museum education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to reconstruct the history of the Five Star Movement by taking the connection between communication and power as our main reference point. This choice is not accidental, given that this connection has acquired a greater relevance in our epoch, characterized by the emergence of mass self-communication and the so-called web society. Furthermore, so-called digital parties, whose activities are mainly based on digital technology, are currently spreading in many areas of the world. The main goals of this study consist of understanding how the communication-power link in the Five Star Movement has changed over time, identifying who actually holds power within it, and evaluating whether it is possible to still define it as a digital party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread integration of digital technologies in the field of archaeology, facilitated by increasingly powerful and economically accessible tools, is producing a profound transformation in the conventional methodologies employed by archaeologists. This contribution specifically delves into the documentation of excavation phases and artifacts, presenting a workflow tested on the tomb 27 of the Colle Vaccaro necropolis (AP) within the educational project managed by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro (ICR). The digital representation of distinct layers and artifacts, developed together with with micro-excavation and restoration operations, serves as a tool for real-time analysis and documentation. Crucially, it acts as a foundational element for constructing an information system geared towards subsequent and more comprehensive historical-archaeological analyses. The outcome of this contribution is the formulation of a semi-automatic process designed to ensure a geometrically accurate and informed three-dimensional representation. This workflow for documenting an excavation and its artifacts is designed to facilitate efficient data utilization both for scholars and professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication is central to our daily lives and is the core of the network of relationships among people. As such it is for sociology a key issue in that broad debate that seeks to define the diverse and complex changes of social reality. Starting from the assumption that communication is one of the constituent dimensions of social relations, the thesis argued in this paper is that in the theories developed by the founding fathers of sociology, we can trace ideas and conceptualizations on which, from the beginning of the twentieth century, the most important theories on communication and the media have been founded, and through which, among other things, it’s possible to understand the latest transformations generated by the advent of digital and network technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to describe the historical path of the Diaristic Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano (Arezzo), starting from its foundation, promoted by Saverio Tutino, with the aim to create a place to preserve the memories written by the "common people", and arriving to its constantly growing "nursery" that collects diaries, letters, e-mails. Some of the preserved documents have become representative of the Archive, like the Bed Sheet of Clelia, in which the story of her life is embroidered; the notebooks of Vincenzo Rabito, an autobiography written in an oral language mixed with "Sicilianisms" and capable of drawing a portrait of his Sicily; the notes written by Orlando Posti, an 18-year-old boy who took part in the Resistance. This work of conservation and care of these "stories in history" leads the Diaristic Archive to take on new opportunities to enhance these memories by digitizing the documents preserved with the aim of networking them and setting up a Digital Autobiographical Archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Closing free access to online platform APIs has changed social research in digital spaces. Access to data is now managed and regulated exclusively by proprietary platforms, which have shared various tools to data extraction with precise rules to data access. Several scholars and researchers have many doubts about these rules and the possibility that these tools can significantly support research in the field of social sciences. This work was born from the interest of testing one of the tools made available to researchers by the Facebook platform called CrowdTangle and proposes a thrust into the epistemological problems and the methodological implications of its use in the investigation of social phenomena in digital spaces. The object of the study is the Italian 2020 Constitutional Referendum. What emerges from the work is how much the tool used for data collection forces researchers to reflect methodologically in order to identify its potential and pitfalls. Starting from these reflections, a scalable analytical model based on Content Analysis is proposed from a double perspective: quantitative automated, and interpretative hermeneutic. The results obtained help to overcome the pitfalls of the collection tool through a combined perspective and merged into an exploratory application of analysis of multiple correspondences in the end. The analysis of multiple correspondences was an indispensable step to arrive at the definition of latent dimensions in anti-populist communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The advent of digital media has produced changes in both communicative and anthropological perspectives: digital media are, in fact, an integral part of the daily life of humans as they embrace the social, cultural, political and economic dimension of the contemporary world in which humans acts. The Catholic Church has not remained impassive in this process. Indeed the response of the catholic church has evolved over and with the times. It has often sought to integrate these changes by proposing a cultural approach which allows us to understand the digital environment as a public space. This digital forum is amendable to a faith base Christian approach and can be seen as a public square. This public square, the Agorà represents an occasion for authentic relational encounters between individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has monopolized communication and media information for months, becoming the first global social fact in the digital age. In a new and redefined communicative space, characterized by the pervasive presence of digital media, each information source needs to establish a specific positioning strategy in the crowded communication field. The article aims at investigating the impact of those processes on the production, spread and use of institutional information. It focuses the attention on the "communicative behaviors" of 12 Italian institutional, political and media players, analyzing their contents' production, the intensity and characteristics of this production and the communicative resources they used in managing their Facebook pages/profiles. In order to outline the players' digital strategies and to frame their positioning in the public sphere, different metrics were analyzed and the possible and meaningful connections among the different players and strategies were considered. From this study, a dense interweaving of voices seems to emerge, attesting the complexity of the communicative space, but also the "functionality" of each voice in a sort of inter-relational attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution aims to highlight, alongside the centrality assumed by digital platforms in our society, the emergence of an "infrastructural power" - a category we take from Michael Mann work - capable of conditioning both the work activities and the very forms of everyday life. The goal of this theoretical reflection is therefore the origin of this power, its characteristics, and the implications it has in both productive and reproductive capacity of society. After tracing the long-term transformations that have taken place on the level of connectivity, the rise of platform's social imaginary will be analyzed, as well as the consequences that it produces from the point of view of labor and within a wider ecological perspective. In the conclusions, the infrastructural lens will also be presented as a promising path to rethink an "inversion" of the material and immaterial components of the "infrastructural power" of platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes an analysis about trade unions in Italian legal system, in order to prove unfounded the indifference of the current digital ecosystem towards the role of traditional trade unions and its practices. The author considers the case of the unions of digital platform work as an effective example of collective conflict, which has shown us even unprecedented forms of action, and which provides evidence that, contrary to the many criticisms, the union and its action have not collapsed. Finally, the author criticises the new participatory model of the trade union and proposes to recover the essential role of collective conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on remote investment in financial assets (online trading), to date one of the most successful macro-areas of the Fintech industry. The main objective of the research is to identify the factors of sociological relevance that catalysed its growth, with a particular focus on the case of Italy. Firstly, on the supply side, the expansion of this practice in the country has been fuelled by the progressive consolidation of an articulated ecosystem of digital investment services. On the other hand, demand-side dynamics have also played a major role: to better understand them, we conducted a qualitative study on a sample of 25 Italian amateur investors. Our research shows that the expansion of online trading is amplified by a widespread need to cope with crucial issues for individuals, such as managing personal careers or finding the financial resources needed for social reproduction. The material collected also shows that, especially for the most fragile individuals, the link between finance and the personal sphere tends to intensify in times of crisis, and the rapid growth recorded by the sector during the recent pandemic emergency is a clear example of this dynamic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The “citizenship income”, established in Italy in 2019, is analysed from the perspective of case management carried out through digital platforms by its actors, called navigators, together with the staff of employment services. The practice of case management has been progressively associated with the policies of matching labour supply and demand through digital platforms in a social policy, called welfare-to-work, in which unemployment benefits are linked to labour reintegration. Based on a social ethnography research that collected qualified testimonies from the actors involved in the processes, the article investigates current perspectives and limits of the integration between Welfare and the use of digital platforms in the process of digitization of active labour policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview of the ways in which STS perspectives inspired by infrastructure studies are analysing issues of work transformations in the digital age, and more specifically digital labor. After an introductory part dedicated to the presentation of infrastructure studies as a means of analysing digital infrastructures as governance tools, the article discusses two fields of analysis in which these perspectives cross the interdisciplinary studies of digital work: the understanding of digital labor as “human infrastructure” and the analysis of the phenomenon of “algorithmic governance” in the transformation of work. The article concludes with some reflections on the current evolutions of digital infrastructures as a “meta-infrastructure” of most other critical infrastructures, and on the link between this phenomenon and work transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, marked by the digital technologies, textuality is taking on new forms. The transformations concern books and medias, but also editors and readers: the paper aims to evaluate how pedagogy can interpret these changes and can allow the subject to use these technologies (new forms of books including) as educational tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper analyses transformations in higher education, and specifically in Italian universities, during and after the Covid-19 crisis. The main focus is on visual and digital media and on their role in reshaping the relationship between teachers and students: on the one hand, teachers have to act as technological performers, following a method in which teaching becomes a show and an event; on the other, students watch on the other side of the screen in a voyeuristic, consumerist way. As a result, education as a lived experience gives way to a mechanical transfer of standardised content, designed as products and commodities in a video platform market.

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This contribution highlights the problems arising from the effects of digital technology on democracy. There are three main issues that are addressed. The first is related to the control of advanced technological systems in the hands of an elite that risks increasing its power and influence on the masses of users and consumers who use new technologies. The second theme, directly connected to the first, concerns public trust in democratic institutions following the entry into the field of mass digital communication systems, which are often the bearers of disinformation and false news ('fake news'). The third theme is that of 'surveillance capitalism', which is linked to industrial and labor relations, in the sense that it examines the implications that this entails for democracy, understood as the direct and indirect participation of workers in the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital technology is changing the way we learn, interact, work and entertain, for its unlimited potential in penetrating all spheres of life. The digital revolution is transforming education industry worldwide. In recent years, extensive debate and research are exploring digital technology, focusing on developing a clear understanding of its capabilities as a platform for making social sciences and humanities applicable to the cyber environment of the twenty first century. The widespread use of social media supported by a rapid growth of the digital culture is making learning ubiquitous by creating, capturing and sharing knowledge. This is enhancing students’ engagement and learning efficiency. It is also improving the learner-instructor interaction by engaging students in a more meaningful participation in their own education and academic achievement. To accomplish this, both students and instructors need to have the skills and expertise in capturing the positive effect of the digital technology and engaging in the new learning environment. This paper reflects on the new learning environment supported by a curriculum reflecting the digital technology era. It discusses how students at the department of archives at the University of Constantine 2 build on the digital capabilities of social media to engage in independent learning by creating and sharing knowledge.