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Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (SACC) is most likely one of the greatest challenges for this institution. The article presents the results of an exploratory study on the journalistic coverage of SACC carried out by three Italian daily newspapers to reflect on the way they are represented and the role of the press in socially constructing the p...
The article aims to assess the long post-Covid-19 phase from the point of view of the relationship between seniors and ICTs, with an Italian focus. During the first phase of the pandemic (in some ways the most acute and dramatic, because of its newness and the uncertainties to be able to face it) an increase in the overall production and consumptio...
Based on theoretical and methodological orientations from authors’ previous research on media and generations, this article presents a research and learning process involving supervised field work conducted by graduate students from a Master Seminar on Media Studies at FCSH, New University of Lisbon. Acting as facilitators of focus groups composed...
The Covid-19 emergency profoundly challenged Italian schools, worsening the digital divide both in technology access and the provision of digital-mediated school experiences. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected with the Joint Research Center before the first lockdown, the study elucidates Italian children and parents’ experiences...
In the last decades, many studies investigated the relations between media and generations. Two issues dominated the debate on this topic. The first one was the digitization of the media system as a discontinuity (often emphasized as a revolution) capable of supporting the formation of a new “digital” generation. The second one was the global scope...
In this project, we investigated the role played by digital media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in building intergenerational and intragenerational relations for grandparents. Specifically, we investigated the possible relationships between grandmothers, children, and grandchildren, with the aim of understanding the dynamics...
The worldwide spread of social media is changing the forms and rules of social relations, the boundaries of private and public spheres, and the definition of privacy and its protection. In reflecting on children’s rights in a digital age, the online experiences of adopted children and their families foreground the tension between the right to priva...
The paper focuses on the political and institutional trends that foster digital literacy among seniors, and the forms it takes in both the public discourses and the concrete practices of teaching seniors how to use information technologies (IT). IT often recur as an essential element in the discourses that stress the importance of an active, health...
When compared to more digitized western countries, Italy seems to have suffered a delay of ten years, in both the use of ICTs by the elderly and the study of the relation between elderly people, ICTs and ageing. Considering this time lapse, it is now urgent that we question the factors that influence the adoption of ICTs by the elderly and whether...
This article focuses on the various spaces hosting the communication activities of European citizens in nine different countries. In contemporary societies, characterized by the pervasiveness of mobile devices and other media, space is key to understanding the everyday uses of media. Where people use media holds important implications for not only...
Il volume restituisce i risultati della prima annualità (2011-2012) della ricerca denominata “Televisione e Infanzia”, realizzata da OssCom – Centro di ricerca sui media e la comunicazione dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore per conto della Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà, nel quadro delle attività di Focus in Media, al fine di ricostruire e...
In the chapter the authors discuss the need to broach the subject of the differentiation of digital audiences and especially of users of social networking sites as a consequence of their agency. The authors introduce the concept of 'style' as a form of personal agency that mediates between the constraints of technological affordances and the struct...
Ageing in western society has become a key issue in political and academic debate: politicians, sociologists, doctors, demographers, psychologists, economists are trying to understand how ageing will impact our future society. In this frame, media and communication technologies seem to be more and more relevant for the elderly, thanks to those serv...
Based on theoretical and methodological orientations from authors’ previous research on media and generations, this article presents a research and learning process involving supervised field work conducted by graduate students from a Master Seminar on Media Studies at FCSH, New University of Lisbon. Acting as facilitators of focus groups composed...
In the recent sociological debate, the concept of the generation has been used increasingly frequently as a tool for interpreting current social change and the role played by the young in this process. This wave, which also involves media discourses, has created a sort of narrative, whose main feature is the existence of a ‘digital global generatio...
The article describes the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) among 2G migrants in Italy. In accordance with the specific conditions of migration to Italy, the article is mainly focused on the use of CMC among adolescents. It is based on the results of a research project on mediated communication practices, identity shaping and the complex...
The contemporary development of the internet is characterized by the encreasing of more and more social spaces of interaction and communicative relations among users. This internt based social space is continuous with the everyday experience and the network of face-to-face interpersonal relations. This is especially true for teenagers who 'inhabit'...
This article explores how far the media technologies, contents and habits experienced in the years of youth contribute to the shaping of collective identities, which are shared by all the members of a generation. On the basis of two sets of empirical research developed in Italy and Portugal according to a life-story approach, it compares the self a...
This article aims to present some ideas about the relation between "media" and "generations" and, in a more specific way, between ICTs and generations of their users. The main questions are: firstly, whether (and how) media take part in the construction of generational identities; secondly, whether (and how) generational belonging affects media usa...
The paper discusses the role of institutional communication in the case of health risks and emergencies. The article is divided in three sections. The first section examines the most recent theories on risk and on its communicational aspect; the second analyses a recent state of emergency crisis, specifically the panic which stemmed from the percei...
Web generation", "Nintendo generation", "e-generation" and so forth, are just a few among the popular generational definitions often mentioned not only in journalistic simplifications but also in scientific publications. This paper presents a theoretical examination of the implications and the limits of the generational approaches to audience resea...
El consumo material converge con el consumo televisivo al definir la identidad y la pertenencia en los procesos de socialización de los niños. La familia, los grupos de pares y las instituciones educativas juegan asimismo un rol importante en la mediación entre estos dos universos del consumo. El paradigma de la domestication permite analizar efica...
This paper present the initial results of a wide-ranging research project devoted to investigating the forms of domestication (Silverston, Morley & Hirsh 1992) of digital terrestrial television in iItaly. The research is based on non-standard methodologies, and folows the indications of multi-sited ethnography (Marcus 1995). The results presented h...
