Human communication has always been considered an almost obvious activity, as a natural phenomenon, to pass over without any particular attention.
A systematic study on communication has started only in the last century, in coincidence with the advent of media and technologies able to speak to the multitudes. Even more recently, communication became a field of academic study. In Italy it occurred later than elsewhere. We believe that communication is a field to explore with all the tools and from all the points of view. We want to provide our scientific communities with careful and critical considerations, because now more than ever the idea that "it is impossible not to communicate" has established itself. Limitless are the ways to influence the facts of the world through communication, and these biases are quickly growing everywhere.
We seek an increasingly more international scientific debate: this is not because this indication comes from a bureaucratic power, but for the great facts of the world are deeply influenced by a global bind.
We want to give a contribution presenting our issues as a lexicon of objects to investigate, starting from the roots of our name, which recalls the Olympic gods' messenger. Our H-ermes got one dash after the H: this means an emphasis on a letter whose function is to connect Communication to Humanities, a strategic meeting point among those disciplines commenting the social individual. It is a dash that carries also the "hermai", the god of communication's first icons, the piles of little stones left on the edge of new paths. Today available to all new media-wanderers.
A systematic study on communication has started only in the last century, in coincidence with the advent of media and technologies able to speak to the multitudes. Even more recently, communication became a field of academic study. In Italy it occurred later than elsewhere. We believe that communication is a field to explore with all the tools and from all the points of view. We want to provide our scientific communities with careful and critical considerations, because now more than ever the idea that "it is impossible not to communicate" has established itself. Limitless are the ways to influence the facts of the world through communication, and these biases are quickly growing everywhere.
We seek an increasingly more international scientific debate: this is not because this indication comes from a bureaucratic power, but for the great facts of the world are deeply influenced by a global bind.
We want to give a contribution presenting our issues as a lexicon of objects to investigate, starting from the roots of our name, which recalls the Olympic gods' messenger. Our H-ermes got one dash after the H: this means an emphasis on a letter whose function is to connect Communication to Humanities, a strategic meeting point among those disciplines commenting the social individual. It is a dash that carries also the "hermai", the god of communication's first icons, the piles of little stones left on the edge of new paths. Today available to all new media-wanderers.
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N. 17 (2020) - Ridefinizioni
Frontespizio | Details PDF |
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Indice | Details PDF |
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Ridefinizioni | Details PDF |
5-6 |
Communication is maintenance: turning the agenda of media and communication studies upside down | Details PDF |
Gabriele Balbi, Roberto Leggero | 7-26 |
#DistantiMaUniti: la comunicazione pubblica tra innovazioni e fragilità alla ricerca di una ridefinizione = #DistantButUnited. Searching for a redefinition: public sector communication between innovations and fragility | Details PDF |
Franca Faccioli, Lucia D'Ambrosi, Gea Ducci, Alessandro Lovari | 27-72 |
From Gamification to AI-Gamification: The Case of Social Network Journalism | Details PDF |
Luca Serafini | 97-114 |
Last day of June: performare il lutto tra pathos ed en-pathos = The last day of June: "performing" the mourning between pathos and en-pathos | Details PDF |
Alessandra Micalizzi | 115-134 |
Slittamenti. Oltre la postdemocrazia = Slipping. Beyond post-democracy | Details PDF |
Lorenzo Fattori | 135-156 |
Cultural Heritage as a mass medium: The cold case of the gilt bronzes | Details PDF |
Laura Appignanesi, Michele Paladini | 211-238 |
Relazioni promiscue. Appunti per una possibile ridefinizione dello spazio comunicativo = Promiscuous relationships. Notes for a possible redefinition of the communicative space | Details PDF |
Carlo Sorrentino, Laura Solito, Silvia Pezzoli, Letizia Materassi | 239-268 |
Percorsi di Ricerca | Details PDF |
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Colophon | Details PDF |
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