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Emotional Intersections: Exploring the Ontogenesis of Human-Algorithm Relationships
This study aims to investigate the ontological and epistemological transformations in human emotional dynamics following interactions with Large Language Model (LLM) algorithms. The primary objective is to reflect on how these technologies may influence human capacities to experience and interpret emotions within digital interaction contexts, exploring both the potentials and limitations of intelligent ...
Writing Ethnographies: The Role of Narrative
The subject of this paper is the importance of certain narrative elements to ethnographic writing and especially to reporting qualitative research based on observation (both participant and otherwise) and interviews (Czarniawska, 2004). I should point out that the following considerations are essentially methodological and theoretical. A further, more practical, text will follow in the near future. ...
Affecting societies, affecting risks (and opportunity)
Introduction While I am writing this essay, the news on the war in Ukraine once again heralds the difficulties in reaching negotiations. Wars and this one in particular, have always been waged with the assistance of propaganda, but what is happening is not just a war of representations, but the representation of war as a weapon. It is a war that hybridizes conventional and communicative weapons. The ...
Creating the city through the urban rituals: differences, inclusion, belonging
Introduction The issues of risk and uncertainty occupy a priority position on the political agendas of cities, to which the media system, with its various formats, acts as a sounding board. In a complementary manner, the scientific community, or rather the different scientific communities involved, are intensifying their research on these issues. In this respect, one need only refer to the substantial ...
What kind of problem is a megacity? Planning, rapid urbanization, and self-organization
Introduction This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). In the conclusion to her classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs (1961) asked the question that inspired this essay’s title: «what sort of problem is a city?». Her answer is that cities are systems of organized ...
Strangers in strange lands: discourse, risk, liquidity
Introduction The concept of the stranger derives from Simmel’s short text (1908). It was developed by significant sociologists (Margaret M. Wood, Alfred Schutz, Robert Park), and is still evolving (Orfanos 2016) with contemporary contributions (McLemore 1970; Bauman 2004; Skoric 2013). This notion can become vital to the research of the refugees’ issue. Here, we will analyze the refugees’ ...
Sociodigital Futures? An agenda for sociological research and practice
Digital technologies, devices and data are woven into the fabric of contemporary societies: the digital and the social are co-evolving in a «sociodigital» world. This raises significant and pressing questions about sociodigital futures: how these are made and what might be done to intervene in them. Sociology is well-placed and – at the same time – faces significant challenges in addressing ...
Experts and science communication in time of Covid vaccination campaign: the Italian case
1 The communication of science during the pandemic Throughout the pandemic, the speed with which science has operated within the uncertainties of COVID-19 has aligned and adapted with the increased need for public information, consequently identifying itself as a challenge also for information systems invited to respond quickly to the new demands imposed by the crisis (Thomas and Senkpeni, 2020). ...
Changes in Schooling: The impact of Digitalization on PTSOs (Work Experience Programs). From Planning to Implementation
1 Work Experience Programs and digital competencies: a general framework Law n. 145 from December 30, 2018, article 1, comma 785, states that the Ministry of Education, University and Research is bound to publish the guidelines for Work Experience Programs (PTSOs – Paths for transversal competencies and orientation) (see MIUR, 2018), which have taken the place of so-called School-Work Alternance ...
The sociology of emotions as a suitable perspective to explore poverty in accordance with the capabilities approach
Introduction The article presents the first insights of an explorative research aimed at analyzing poverty from the perspective of the sociology of emotions. It hypothesizes that emotions can represent a useful instrument to combat poverty at an individual and social level. Most recent policies and measures against poverty at national and international level have adopted as reference the paradigm ...