Ricerc@Sapienza

Education, just like the media, and in close connection with the media, always plays an important role in the crisis, both in the anti-cyclical direction, as in the 70s and 80s, and in the cyclical direction as in Italy in the last period. Following the trend of relations among education, media-morphosis and crisis, the analysis focuses on distinctive characters of the current situation.

Fashion consumption is changing rapidly due to the digital transformation of our society that affects both the market and with-it brands’ behaviors, and most importantly consumers’ practices: users/audience/ consumers are involved at different levels, as knowledge and content producers and as seekers thereof. Customers move seamlessly among different devices, contents and media channels. While searching for information, purchasing products and sharing band related experiences and in so doing creating content, they also entertain themselves.

In this paper, we explore ageist depictions of both young and older people as they emerge
from discourses addressing ‘other people’s’ digital media usage practices. We carried out
eight focus groups (four with teenagers, four with people aged 65 or older) in two southern
European cities (Rome and Barcelona). By negotiating the affordances and constraints
of (digital) tools and platforms, people develop their own usage norms and strategies,
which might – or might not – be intersubjectively shared. Discourses surrounding usage

The growing usage of digital technologies is reshaping the way individuals interact with culture, increasing the volume, accessibility and diversity of cultural participation. Although the Internet and digital media make cultural participation easier and more direct, there is also evidence that digital technologies reproduce existing inequalities characteristic of offline cultural participation, which tends to vary considerably with people’s education, social position, geographic location and age cohort.

This work explores the connections between fake news and international political commu- nication system, a conglomerate of content and information deriving from the interaction among media, governments and public opinions. Fake news has gained public visibility only in the late years, but some digital phenomena, theorized by Internet scholars before the mainstream explosion of the concept, seem particularly effective to describe fake news as a political weapon.