Fabio Introini

The aim of this paper is to explore the connection among Italian Millennials, Social Networks and Social Inclusion, drawing mainly from a national survey conducted by Istituto G. Toniolo «Rapporto Giovani» in 2017. The analysis will be centered on the ways in which Italian Millennials use Social Networks, with a peculiar focus on the «high uses» of Facebook&Co. By «high uses» we mean usages that are non-ludic but related to political/civic engagement or dedicated to self empowerment through social capital construction and enhancement...

La fede è una tensione che coinvolge l’essere umano in tutte le sue dimensioni: da quella spirituale a quella culturale e sociale. Cosa accade quando la sua trasmissione ‘di generazione in generazione’ si interseca con l’esperienza della migrazione?

La fede è una tensione che coinvolge l’essere umano in tutte le sue dimensioni: da quella spirituale a quella culturale e s

Promossa dall'Istituto Toniolo, è la prima ricerca in Italia che, in maniera così ampia, approfondisce il tema dei giovani italiani, dai 18 ai 29 anni, con background migratorio.

Giovani italiani, dai 18 ai 29 anni, vivono nella stessa nazione ma hanno storie diverse

Una biografia personale e intellettuale del grande studioso di sociologia, corredata da scritti scelti tra gli articoli della rivista "Studi di Sociologia".

Europe building process is a key factor in the future of societies that take part or will take part in it. First of all, Europe building is the attempt to cast politics beyond what Beck and Grande call «methodological nationalism» and, besides, it is a social lab unprecedented in our history. Despite of its relevance, social sciences and the media don’t give to Europe the due attention. This article gives an account of a wider research that analyzed Europe building from the perspective of the relationship between EU insitutions and organized transnational civil society. This dialogue is very worthy for EU institutions themselves because is considered the best way to create a Europe that goes beyond economical integration and that will be able to offer to its citizens identity, sense of belonging and social solidarity.

The article starts from the consideration of how the basic and structural role that the family represents in the human experience and in the social fabric exposes it to be the object of consideration of cultural agencies and collective subjects which often represent it according to, partial, when not distorted logics. So the cohabitation of a plurality of discourses about the family, publicly pronounced from different social subjects are able to produce as many images and collective representations of the family. The focusing of this contribution concerns some typologies of social subjects responsible of the media discourses on the family, the ways in which they conceive the family experience and its priorities today, how much they are aware of this subjective perception, what they think it is the common feeling about the family reality, and how this awareness today – together with the with those more strictly professional related to the markets, the languages and the public which they address – enter the process of construction of their discourses, and therefore in the media imagination depending on them. The article examines the aware and unaware conditioning which drive the process of mediation operated by those professional categories of mediators and cultural operators on which depends the production of a real social representation of the family experience: journalists of the printed paper, on one side, fiction scriptwriters and producers advertising creative people, on the other. Every type of family representation produced is investigated; the rules and the inside limitations to the discursive genre and the specific productive system; the awareness level of the operators with respect to such norms and, consequently, the perception of the limitations and inadequacies with respect to the representative, creative, and axiological demands, of the operators themselves A plurality of images of families emerges on one side anchored to the common sense, but showing on the other the plurality of meanings and the changes to which the family is submitted in the present society. Therefore, the strategies of the discursive production on family, according to the considered sector, stir along the axle that almost goes from the adherence almost ‘naturalistic’ to the complexity of the family reality to its fictional transfiguration.

«Science» and «literature» have been considered, for very long time, as two separate domains because of their different relationship with «objectivity». This dicothomy has its roots in the logocentric tendency of western thought and culture. After the social sciences «linguistic turn» and the consequent adfirmation of a post-modernist and post-logocentric sensibility the border between literature and (mainly social) sciences hase become more and more permeable and the same distinction between the two spheres has been interpreted in rethorical terms, as a difference between two genres of writing. This article explores reasons and paths that have led to such revenge of the literary domain reflecting both at the epistemological and sociological level.

Comprendere il ruolo che le tecnologie della comunicazione giocano nel ridisegnare la politica significa non tanto chiedersi che cosa la tecnologia possa fare per migliorare la democrazia, ma interrogarsi, più radicalmente, su quale politica si renda necessaria all’interno di una società di cui la tecnologia stessa è sempre più parte e contribuisce a ridisegnare struttura, attori e processi. La domanda deve essere quindi posta all’interno del più ampio scenario del mutamento sociale, alla luce delle dinamiche che nella società dell’informazione re-distribuiscono il potere e mutano le condizioni e le forme del suo stesso esercizio. Partendo da questo presupposto Fabio Introini ricostruisce e analizza, con un percorso di ricerca teorico ed empirico, il modo in cui i differenti attori della sfera politica – istituzioni, società civile e movimenti – si apprestano ad affrontare la sfida della democrazia nella società dell’informazione, attraversando i campi dell’e-governance, dell’e-democracy e del mediattivismo.