Ricerc@Sapienza

Informal learning practices are self-directed recreational, family and daily activities, not organised and structured in terms of targets, number of hours or learning materials. In most cases they are not intentional (e.g. learning from watching a film, travelling, volunteer activity, playing music in a band, etc.). In practice, there is no learning activity that does not mix together elements of formal/non formal and informal systems. As a consequence, learning is a convergence of heterogeneous learning systems, including less structured systems.

Despite the dramatic innovation brought about in the field of corporate communication by the advent of the World Wide Web, when it comes to annual company reports (ACRs), companies seem to introduce few innovative digital elements in the drafting and formatting of the narrative sections. The present study, as the last step of a long-term research project, aimed at investigating this genre from a diachronic point of view by concentrating on the transformations that ACRs’ corporate narratives undergo once they migrate to the Web.