Libri di Pubblicazioni in Open Access

La rivoluzione digitale ha cambiato il modo di comunicare di tutti noi, compreso quello delle mafie. Nel grande ecosistema digitale, i Social Network Sites (DNS) sono i vettori privilegiati di interazione e diffusione dei contenuti. Questo studio ha indagato la presenza, in termini di qualità e quantità, delle mafie sugli SNS. Ne emerge un immaginario digitale delle mafie che si alimenta in maniera circolare: i social sono lo specchio e il motore di aggiornamento costante (updatism) della cultura criminale mafiosa che risemantizza i vecchi immaginari costruendo consenso attraverso una bulimica creazione di contenuti.

Although belonging to the wider family of applied theatre, social theatre has some specific historical, methodological and contextual characteristics. This book explores the whys and wherefores of social theatre with particular attention to Italy. It is structured around two types of contribution. One comes from the interventions of some of the speakers at the International Conference Performing the Social. Education, Care and Social Inclusion through Theatre, held in Milan on 20-21 September 2019. The second part is a more direct result of the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN) of social theatre in the fields of education, health and inclusion.

The State of the Art of Employee Communication in Italian Companies outlines the practices and trends of employee communication and organizational relations in Italy. The study includes a focus on the digitization of employee communication, internal social media and the use of external social media by employees. It constitutes a tool thanks to companies can map the development status of its employee communication over time and with reference to the Italian situation.

Higher education, which is undergoing a shift due to an increase in digitalization worldwide, needs to refocus its teaching practices by designing flexible courses catering to students’ multifarious post-pandemic needs. The present volume provides a digitally-enhanced framework suitable for designing and implementing flexible courses in English-Taught Programs (ETPs). Language awareness, a key component of ETPs, is especially examined within a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework.