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At-risk gaming among adolescents and services addressing gambling disorder in the Lazio Region: the role of digital in an intervention research
As part of an intervention research project, in progress, on at-risk gaming among adolescents and services dedicated to gambling disorder in Lazio, Digital Social Research has provided essential support on several fronts, which are explored in depth in the proposed paper. Building on what has already been achieved, a first line of research involved the completion of an online questionnaire by a sample ...
Living techniques, machinic lives. The impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world of work, transforming processes, social roles, and specific professions, while creating new opportunities. With this contribution, we will analyse how AI is increasing efficiency and productivity, and influencing the labour market structure. Additionally, we will discuss the social and economic implications of these transformations, including ...
Exploring the integration of Social Network Analysis and Agent-Based Modelling: methodological issues in a bibliometric analysis
This study presents a bibliometric analysis (BA) of Social Network Analysis (SNA) applied to Agent-Based Modelling (ABM). BA, a quantitative method that examines scientific outputs via cataloguing databases, is viewed through the sociology of science, where research is seen as a social activity shaping cultural and social structures. Using Bibliometrix, the analysis integrates Text Mining and Semantic ...
Bad news: AI-LLMs and digital traces in journalism, the bias of copyright protection
This research examines AI models (OpenAI GPT-4 and Google Gemini 1.5 Flash) used to access Italian news across genres, focusing on the quality of information and sources (RQ1) and the models’ ability to provide correct links for users to verify and explore the news (RQ2). A custom GPT based on the Whittaker Grid serves as an experimental tool for evaluating the models’ sources. The debate on generative ...
End of life in the digital age: navigating new spaces for grieving and ethical dilemmas
The progressive digitization of social life has redefined the contours of intimacy, memory, and even death. While traditional offline contexts tend to render death a private and invisible phenomenon, digital platforms open new symbolic spaces for its expression, memorialization, and reconfiguration. This article explores the social, emotional, and imaginary dimensions of digitally mediated death, ...
A methodological approach that integrates offline and digital environments in scientific medical research on aging «fra-SET»
The multicentred non-pharmacological experimental study on aging titled «Fra-set: Identification and Quantification of Frailty» by P. Abete (DISMET University of Naples «Federico II») finds his endpoint in the validation of the diagnostic tool named «fr-AGILE» which allows for the identification and quantification of frailty in elderly patients in settings with varying levels of care intensity. ...
Embracing the ordinary: netnographic insights into authenticity and ethical challenges in the Dull Women’s Club
The Dull Women’s Club (DWC), a Facebook community of over 1.3 million members, counters mainstream social media by celebrating the mundane and rejecting performative culture. This netnographic study examines the DWC as a digital space where members negotiate identity, authenticity, and community, while also grappling with the ethical challenges of studying a semi-private online group. Analysis of ...
The time of emergency. On the governmental logic of preparedness, di Luigi Pellizzoni
The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has elicited renewed attention to an approach to emergency which has come to the forefront in recent years, namely preparedness. Scholars have argued that its rationale is profoundly divergent from the securitarian outlook of prevention and precaution, entailing different techniques and ostensibly also a different, non – (or less) dominative, way of relating with the biophysical ...
Exploring the evolution and impact of the restructured School-to-Work Alternance in Italy: the point of view of external tutors
Introduction In recent years, debate on school-to-work transitions (SWT) has stressed the educational value of work-based learning (WBL) and the role of transversal and orientation competences in upper secondary education. Following this direction, recent policy reforms in Italy – from the Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro (ASL) to the Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e l’Orientamento (PCTO, Paths ...
Intervista a Arnaldo Bagnasco
Arnaldo Bagnasco è professore emerito dell’Università di Torino. Nato a Varazze nel 1939, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza nell’Università di Genova, con una tesi in sociologia diretta da Luciano Cavalli. Oltre che nelle Facoltà di Scienze Politiche e di Lettere e Filosofia di Torino, ha insegnato al Cesare Alfieri di Firenze e nell’Università Federico II di Napoli. Nell’Università di ...