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Life and death on the Internet

Media responsibility

  Questo evento fa parte di Pensavo fosse un’audience invece era community L’ingresso del digitale e dei social network amplia il numero dei protagonisti delle scene televisive e cinematografiche. Sui set salgono anche coloro che con un device interagiscono con i contenuti, commentano e criticano. Un’audience globale e multicanale che diventa community e sopravvive oltre […]

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ConVivere – Living together

As long as there’s a donor, life still has a chance

Friends by chance, friends forever. Laura grew up sharing her life with a stage 4 neuroblastoma patient and, in 2014, at the age of 16, created the Facebook page ConVivere “to testify to the fact that life, despite the many adversities we have to face, is always a wonderful thing”.   Digital Media The multiple […]

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Facebook: moderation or censorship?

A journey through Facebook’s opaque content moderation system

Posts of evident racist content which are tolerated because they are “in line with the community standards”, pages suspended for obscure reasons: how does moderation work on Facebook? Does it work? We shall analyse dozens of cases in our search for an answer.   Digital Media The multiple uses and nature of the social mediums […]

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The Facebook meridian: news without time and time without news

News in the singular form

Facebook and Instagram do away with chronology as a criterion and common denominator for sharing information. News items are distributed on the grounds of a criterion that is exclusively algorithmic. To each, his news and no one knows the news of others. Is this the end of public opinion in favour of an algorithmic opinion? […]

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Gomorra

Between fiction, reality and augmented reality, the vertigo of evil witnessed close up

  The appearance of the digital and social networks increases the number of protagonists in the television and cinematographic scenes. Stages and sets are populated by those who can interact with content, comment and critique. A global and multi-channel audience that becomes a community and survives beyond the duration of transmissions, such as in the […]

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From data to data

An Avant-Garde Approach to the Internet

In this lecture-performance Donatella Della Ratta and Geert Lovink will discuss a variety of critical concepts that shape our internet culture. How can we launch strategies and architectures that go beyond the utopian celebration of social media and the depressive culture of complaints and techno-dystopia?”   I thought it was a regular audience but it turned […]

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On-line dating and other disasters

Comedy monologue interspersed with perceptive colour charts

Tinder is the most famous of the dating applications: its name means bait and its “swipe” system makes it difficult to resist. A Milanese comedian presents semi-serious charts and infographics about the apps that could revolutionise relationships but more often lead to disastrous aperitivo stories and Facebook friendships.   I thought it was a regular […]

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What citizens are asking for on Change.org

Online communities and social fabric – the inner workings of change in action

Change.org is the biggest online petition platform in the world, with more that 150 million users, 6 million of them being in Italy. Each day, thousands of Italian citizens use petitions to promote ideas and influence decisions made by public authorities and private companies. From the fight to make torture a criminal offense to the […]

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Humans, robots and artificial intelligence: the Facebook case

Just a few months after the launch, already thousands of Chatbots are simulating human intelligence and interacting with humans on Facebook’s Messenger platform.   Digital Media The multiple uses and nature of the social mediums becomes an integral part of the rhythm of daily life. Taking part in today’s social network is an inescapable means […]