Gianna Cappello

• Professor (Associate) at University of Palermo

The Italian case study, presented in this chapter, develops the concept of educational commons building on the field of media education and the notions of “participatory culture” and digital commons. The motivation for this study arose from the need to reconsider education as a shared resource and to examine the importance of experimenting with, mo...

Presentazione del numero 14 vol.2 del 2023 a cura di Gianna Cappello e Maria Ranieri, Editors della rivista Media Education.

This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialog...

La organización del «I Congreso Internacional de Trabajo Social Digital», desarrollado los días 28, 29 y 30 de septiembre de 2020, y organizado por tres universidades españolas –la UNED, la Universidad de Zaragoza y la Universidad de Málaga– surgió como respuesta a la cancelación de eventos similares y a la necesidad de recoger buenas prácticas dig...

In this article, drawing from the data collected by the AGCOM during the pandemic crisis, we argue that the emergence of COVID 19 has made more evident the new relationships between the informative cybercascades, the significant need of news during a crisis, the presence of disinformation online, and the relevant consequences on collective narratio...

In Italy, the media literacy (ML) movement has a long grassroots tradition. Main actors are from civil society (academics, associations, church communities, teachers, media professionals, educators), with some growing support from local and national institutions. While digital literacy has stably entered the school system through funds, projects, a...

Traditionally, one of the fundamental objectives of media literacy (ML) has been the development of the ability to exercise critical thinking about the media, unmask their “naturalness,” and bring to surface their ideologies and values. However, when we move from the abstract level of critical theory to the messy and complex practices enacted in ed...

The concept of the active audience has been one of the most fruitful and provocative in the media literacy field as it has brought media educators to seriously question the traditional ways of defining both their students' involvement with the media and the effects supposedly produced on them. Audience studies have empirically proven the active rol...

Over the years research on literacy has progressively moved away from a narrow definition of the term in strictly psycholinguistic terms expanding it so as to recognize its inevitable embeddedness within particular social relationships and practices. In this paper, after a short historical overview of the scientific debate developed around this exp...

Il consumo dei media è ingrediente di base della vita pubblica e privata dei minori rivestendo un ruolo fondamentale nella costruzione della loro identità e socialità. Una dimensione cruciale delle loro esperienze mediali è costituita dal piacere e dal gioco. In questo contributo si vuole sostenere che se l’educazione formale non riconosce questo r...

In this paper we argue that the intermediaries supporting individual and community social empowerment (families, schools, youth and health services, both public and private, cultural and social entrepreneurs) could use video games so as improve the effectiveness of their interventions. We report the initial findings of an ongoing action-research pr...

Purpose The present study aims to examine girls' perception of gender roles and gender identities in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach A total of 16 girls aged 10 to 12 were asked to take pictures from the media that could illustrate “what girls or women should or should not be; and what girls or women should or should not do”. Qualitative in...

This study suggests to look at the audiences of religious television programmes as a possible common field of interest for both the sociology of religion and communication research. The current visibility of religion on Italian television, amplified by the Jubilee 2000 and confirmed by the repeated successes of fictions dedicated to religious chara...

1 The field of media literacy education is maturing, as evidenced by the quality of presentations of research and practice shared at the 2010 World Summit on Children and Media in Karlstad. In this article, we offer our reflections on the opportunities and challenges faced by media literacy educators as we build our global community network, develo...