Ricerc@Sapienza

Discursive dynamics in restructuring parental roles in families with rare disease The diagnosis of rare disease in developmental age represents a destabilizing turning point in the stories of families, in relation to both “before” – life until that moment – and what is considered as “normal” in accordance with cultural models (Emiliani, Palaret and Mellotti, 2010). In facing with the specific problems of each disease, parents try to “make sense” to their experience through meaning-making and role adaptations.

Several researchers have investigated journalists' use of Twitter as a part of everyday routines within traditional journalistic norms. However, in Italy, there is no empirical data on journalists' behavior within the platform. In the Italian context, where a pluralist-polarized model associated with a low level of professionalism prevails, the use of Twitter could be an occasion for political journalists to distinguish themselves from the idea of a high level of political parallelism by revealing how information was obtained, and engaging with the audience.