Sergio Minniti- PhD
- Senior Assistant Professor at Mercatorum University
Sergio Minniti
- PhD
- Senior Assistant Professor at Mercatorum University
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Publications (31)
The article focuses on the reconfiguration of analogue instant photography (Polaroid-like) in the digital age. Drawing on STS literature on the mutual shaping of users and technology, and on anthropology and the history of photography, it adopts the concept of " photo-object " to discuss how the digitalization of photography stimulated a change in...
Open Access (OA) initiatives and knowledge infrastructure represent vital elements for both producing significant changes in scholarly communication and reducing limitations of access to the circulation of scientific knowledge in developing countries. The spreading of the OA movement in Latin America and Caribbean (LA&C) countries, exemplified by t...
The article aims at investigating the persistence and comeback of old media technologies (phenomena we define, in short, ‘retromedia’) by developing a distinctive theoretical approach named retromedia-in-practice and based on practice theory. Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, casset...
The process of developing of a participatory environmental monitoring network in Italy, unfolded between 2013 and 2020, is analysed in order to explore the dynamics of knowledge co-production involving collaboration between scientists and non-experts, in the present case constituted by a community of weather amateurs and practitioners. Based on a q...
The chapter analyses the increased readoption of analogue photographic technology by aspirational amateurs in the contemporary digital environment. It argues that this phenomenon reflects the processes of co-constitution of the analogue and the digital, through which the infrastructures, discourses and practices of analogue photography have become...
The paper investigates the complex relationship between contentious politics and the production of scientific knowledge, particularly in the realm of environmental monitoring data practices. Our analysis focuses on the role of non-experts in the production of environmental data outside environmental public authori- ties or on the periphery of envir...
The paper addresses the development of "retromedia practices" (Magaudda and Minniti 2019) by analysing the reappropriation of arcade video games after their decline in the mid-1990s, focusing on the Italian context. In doing so, it adopts the "creative appropriation of technology" perspective (Eglash 2004) and elaborates the notion of "creative rea...
Since its beginnings in the 1990s, media archeology has established a fruitful exchange of concepts and methods with media art. The present article focuses on the mutual exchange between these two fields. It aims at reflecting on the commonalities and differences between artists’ and scholars’ work and, consequently, on the emergence of the figure...
Review of P. Di Salvo, 2019, "Leaks. Whistleblowing e hacking nell’età senza segreti". In "Studi Culturali", 17 (2), 2020, pp. 307-309.
Il capitolo prende in esame la relazione tra utilizzatori e tecnologie, evidenziando come gli STS abbiano messo in discussione la rigida distinzione tra sfera della produzione e sfera dell’uso per portare in primo piano le dinamiche di co-costruzione che si sviluppano nel corso dell’appropriazione degli oggetti tecnici da parte dei loro utilizzator...
Call for abstracts - Deadline 9-02-2020. Over the last years, we have seen an increasing interest in the overlapping areas of STS and Media Studies towards examining the multifaceted vulnerabilities of technical objects. Within STS, research on maintenance and repair practices has been attracting growing attention since the works of Susan Leigh Sta...
The article addresses the issue of the digital divide in Ecuador and illustrates how artefacts from television material heritage might be transformed into digital libraries to provide marginalized communities with access to digital information. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which aims at providing Ecuadorian rural communities with...
Relationships among theory, gaming, learning and socio-technical design are explored in the two contributions which compose the section. The theory in question is ANT, re-interpreted through critical making-an umbrella term for various distinctive practices that link traditional scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to forms of material...
The presentation addresses the issue of digital divide in Ecuador. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which aims at providing rural communities with access to digital knowledge through the re-functioning of analog TV sets and other complementary technologies that are going to become obsolete on June 2018 due to Ecuador’s switch from an...
“Critical making” is an umbrella term for various distinctive practices that link traditional scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to forms of material engagement in order to explore new ways of studying the relationship between technologies and social life by bridging the gap between physical and conceptual exploration (Ratto, 2011)....
ICTs and technology transfer can benefit and move a country forward in economic and social development. However, ICT and access to the Internet have been inequitably distributed in most developing countries. In terms of science production and dissemination, this divide articulates itself also through the inequitable distribution of access to scient...
Since the work of classic media theorists such as Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman on " media ecology " , media studies have frequently relied on environmental metaphors to address how media technologies are inextricably interwoven with the social world. In more recent years, the use of nature-based metaphors has combined with a growing interest i...
Talk on the Art of homemaking cameras as a media archaeological pratice
The digitalisation of photography has often been interpreted as a process of dematerialization.
However, empirical studies show that the material dimension is still fundamental to digital
photographic practices. By accepting the argument that digitalisation prompted a reconfiguration of
photography’s materiality, rather than its disappearance, this...
The digitalisation of photography has often been interpreted as a process of dematerialisation. However, empirical studies show that the material dimension is still fundamental to digital photographic practices. By accepting the argument that digitalisation prompted a reconfiguration of photography's materiality, rather than its disappearance, this...
The paper focuses on the art practice of camera making. By overviewing the work of a contemporary artist who built his own cameras in order to innovate photography, the aim of the paper is to explore ways in which this kind of ‘media art’ – an art that involves the homemaking of media technologies and their design as socio-technical devices – may p...
The presentation focuses on the case study of an online amateur community devoted to instant analogue photography (Polaroid-like). It is argued that concepts from STS and media studies could be fruitfully used together to enrich the understanding of this practice of "technological resistance" (Kline & Pinch, 1996) to digital photography. On the one...
