LIBRI DI GIACOMO MANZOLI

Il volume tenta di mettere a fuoco una “pedagogia dell’espressione artistica”, disciplina di recente istituzione accademica, il cui statuto è ancora definito solo in parte. La complessità e la ricchezza del tema, attestate anche dalla pluralità di settori artistici e approcci disciplinari coinvolti, segnano possibili sentieri di lavoro e di ricerca didattica e formativa, rispetto ai quali il volume idealmente intende costituire un punto di partenza e una proposta stimolante.

This interview retraces and broadens some of the key concepts that Professor David Buckingham highlighted during his lecture Media and cultural education in the age of digital capitalism that he gave at the conference DAMS. Ieri, Oggi e Domani (April 22-24th, 2021) organized within the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Drama, Art and Music Studies program (DAMS) at the University of Bologna. David Buckingham is an internationally recognized leading expert on children’s and young people’s interactions with electronic media, and on media literacy education. He was the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media and has been a consultant for UNESCO, the United Nations, Unicef, the European Commission, Ofcom, and the UK government for several years.

The increasingly pervasive mediatization of our daily lives has led to pervasive media consumption and increased production and sharing of data and information. With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, media education has been transformed into an all-encompassing category that was asked to fulfill the needs and expectations pertaining to other disciplines. This progressive extension of the area of expertise of media education requires to rethink its research focus, its intervention practices in educational environments, and its regulation at the State level in order to guarantee its full legitimacy and recognition both inside and outside the schooling system.