Ricerc@Sapienza

Objective: Social Media (SM) and On-line Communities (OC) are increasingly important in youth’s life and
the massive use of these technologies by new generations gave rise to an international debate regarding the
potential effects on relationships and sexuality.
The aim of this paper is to review advantages and limits of SM and OC as ways to build and care
relationships and obtain formal and informal information on sexuality by youth, and moreover as sexual
education programs delivery tools.

Summary: Helplines are common counselling services for men and women seeking advice forhealth, psychological and sexual problems. With the advent of the social media era, users havenow more possibilities to search for information about sexual health than before. Comparing therecent data of a long-standing telephone counselling service on sexual health by the Instituteof Clinical Sexology of Rome, we aimed to investigate the range of sexual concerns reported byusers, to describe the differences, if any, between male and female callers, and the changes incontents and usage in the last years.

Summary: The Social Media and online communities have become important communicationchannels for youth and the massive use of these technologies by new generations gave rise toan international debate regarding the potential effects on relationships and sexuality. The aimof this paper is to study advantages and limits of Social Media, as formal and informal sourceof information on sexuality, focusing on their impact on youth and professionals involved insexual education programs. A review of scientific literature from January 2006 to May 2017was performed.

Résumé Les médias sociaux et les communautés en ligne sont devenus des canaux de commu-nication importants pour les jeunes et l’utilisation massive de ces technologies par les nouvellesgénérations a donné lieu à un débat international concernant leur effet potentiel sur lesrelations et la sexualité. Le but de cet article est d’étudier les avantages et les limites desmédias sociaux, en tant que source d’information formelle et informelle sur la sexualité, enmettant l’accent sur leur impact sur les jeunes et les professionnels impliqués dans les pro-grammes d’éducation sexuelle.

The current study is inserted into a research line of a wider project, which investigates the social representations about the contemporary migratory phenomenon through various social networks. Specifically, this study focused on individuals’ social representations about immigrants through Instagram and was inspired by the ‘social representations’ theoretical framework and in particular by its ‘modelling’ paradigmatic approach. In line with previous results, we expected to confirm the very polarized representation of immigrants.

The contribution is part of a wide research program on migratory experiences and discourse,
articulated in “field” and “multi-media” studies.
The media studies are aimed at reconstructing the “multi-voices” and “multi-agents” discourses about
the contemporary migratory phenomenon: a) the scientific discourse (by experts), b) the politicalinstitutional
discourse (by policy makers, political leaders, institutions, NGO, etc.), c) the social
discourse by journalists; d) the discourse “for” or “by” lay people.

La ricerca esplora l’attività delle pagine Facebook di Luigi Di Maio e Matteo Salvini, leader delle maggiori forze populiste in Italia, concentrandosi sull’aspetto interattivo dei post pubblicati. Sono stati estratti 4993 post dal 24/02/2016 al 24/02/2019. Di questi 2142 sono di Di Maio e 2179 di Salvini. I post sono stati classificati nelle categorie “immigrazione” e “PD”, per descrivere la polarizzazione dei follower rispetto a due diversi outgroup.

Digital natives are growing up in a new media ecosystem, where the use of the net and social media is a daily practice. Even if there is a growing interest in the use of social media in uni- versity education, there is a paucity of outcome based, empirical studies assessing the impact of social media in medical education, in particular in the Human anatomy field.

In the absence of target treatments or vaccination, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic can be impeded by effectively implementing containment measures and behaviors. This relies on individuals’ adoption of protective behaviors, their perceived risk, and the use and trust of information sources. During a health emergency, receiving timely and accurate information enables individuals to take appropriate actions to protect themselves, shaping their risk perception. Italy was the first western country plagued by COVID-19 and one of the most affected in the early phase.

Dopo dieci anni dall’avvento dei social network e della social moda possiamo parlare di una metodologia scientifica di analisi dedicata? La risposta è ovviamente sì, e pertanto si propone al lettore un percorso che tocca tutte le tappe fondamentali della generazione e dell’applicazione di una
metodologia qualitativa multidisciplinare di stampo semiotico che possa indagare anche altri oggetti di studio oltre alla moda.