Ricerc@Sapienza

Tourism is a dynamic and constantly changing sector; it is inserted in a social and digital context of market’s change. The research displays the changes in the tourist market, the fast development of the so-called tourism 4.0, and the advent of social networks in tourism sector.

Given the important role that the psychoanalysis has played in the field of intervention on mental health for many years and the controversial debate that as therapeutical practice has been always originated and recently reactivated, it is of particular interest to discusses the actuality of the SRT fifty years later in the era of social networks. It does so by exploring the dynamics of the interchange between scientific and lay knowledge regarding psychoanalysis, psychiatry and mental health in light of a corpus of spontaneous conversations among Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!

This work analyses mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of inequality in Italy by exploiting the waves from 2000 to 2016 of the Bank of Italy’s Survey on Household Income and
Wealth. Using fathers’ education as a proxy of parental background, we show that 1-year increase in fathers’ education is associated with a 3.6% increase in children’s earnings. Contrary to the
widespread idea that the intergenerational transmission is only related to parents’ investment in their children’s education, large background-related advantages (+1.8% for each year of parental

We study the effects of tax morale and social norms on tax evasion when individuals interact in a network. We present a model that incorporates incentives for tax compliance in the form of punishment and fines, tax morale, and reputation for social behaviour. We assume that individuals adjust their tax morale by observing the neighbours' tax morale.

Appearance Screens. Technologies, Imagination, Forms of Life between Semiotics
and Aesthetics. This contribution introduces the research themes of the monographic
part of this issue of Versus, which concern the impact that digital technologies have on
contemporary life, especially on our cognitive ways and on our everyday habits. For this
purpose an innovative comparison between semiotics and aesthetics is proposed, through
the various contributions. In particular, the concept of imagination, the modifications to

The study on Garbatella district in Rome and Lazdynai district in Vilnius, Lithuania, aims at documenting three thematic aspects of the transformation dynamics on going: analysis of archival textual and iconographic documents; communication of the current material aspect; representation of the immaterial dimension generated on the one end by socio-cultural transformations, on the other by the media system that has represented them in different ways (from cinema, to television, to social networks).