Simone Carlo

La transizione digitale europea è sempre più considerata essenziale per migliorare l’efficienza e l’efficacia dei servizi per la cittadinanza. Ma si pone la problematica della popolazione anziana, specie nel nostro Paese. Cosa si sta facendo per superare il gap.

la pubblicazione affronta il tema dell’invecchiamento attivo e del ruolo che le ICT hanno nella vita quotidiana degli anziani.

Con la crescente mediatizzazione della politica, da un lato, e con le diverse riforme dei sistemi elettorali e dei meccanismi istituzionali, dall’altro, la centralità del candidato nelle competizioni elettorali delle democrazie occidentali è andata gradualmente aumentando fino ad assumere una funzione strategica...

Le città contemporanee sono spazi multisensoriali, multimodali, multimediali: i media invadono non soltanto le case, le tasche, le mani, ma anche le strade, le piazze, i centri commerciali, le zone dedicate a socialità e cultura, le stazioni.

The contemporary society is countersigned by a progressive substitution of the concept of fear by that of risk, which contemplates the rational possibility of control on the dangerousness of a given phenomenon by the individual and the system. The article starts from the terminological and conceptual distinction between risk and danger, and indicates then two types of communication: the communication of crisis and the communication of the risk. On this last one strongly weighs the communicative intervention of the media. The probability of risk varies as the system ability to know how to react to the emergency situations varies, and not simply with the possibility in itself that the event happens: according to this approach it is therefore necessary to elaborate tools to prevent and check the risks, through the management of the system efficiency, regularizing the information flows among the subjects composing the communicative chain of risk and emergency: institutions, media and citizens. The analysis of a particular case (the diffusion of H5N1 virus – generally known as being responsible for the «avian influence» – in the period included between August 2005 and March 2006, in the informative coverage operated by the «Corriere della Sera» and by the Tg1) allows identifying some problems of risk communication by the Institutions and to verify their consequences in food consumption in Italy. It emerges that the media discourses are very powerful in creating awareness of the danger, but they are contradictory in creating a correct perception of the risk; secondly, the media discourses seem to be weak in driving the consumers’ behaviour: the population manifests a certain distrust towards the evaluation of the risk operated by «expert systems», deciding alone the purchasing behaviour to be adopted. The last part of the article describes a best practice: the planning and realization of a food safety manual edited by an Italian Ministry, starting from the awareness acquired during the avian emergency.

The investigation here proposed takes into examination the «Corriere della Sera» and the daily paper free press «Metro» for a three-months’ period. The times when Internet was a new technology, to be explained, are over. The question now is, what are today in Italy the social discourses on the net. The representation of Internet appears today pulverized in the routine discourses of the media, on one side given for granted inside the more general talks on the media system, on the other side keeping a dimension of ‘novelty’ that guarantees the its being part of the news. The central knots around which the discourses on the net are condensed are: 1) Internet as a tecno-economic element, 2) as a dangerous place, 3) as an arena of fun and diversion. Vice versa, in contrast with the emancipative rhetoric still permeating other social discourses on the net, the debate on themes such as the social share and politics through Internet, the access and the use of the computer resources, the governance of the tool are almost entirely missing.