| Popis: |
Over the last two decades, ICT has contributed to re-modelling relationships between individuals and territories, urging new and unprecedented ways of participating in the territory which are declining according to different levels of activism. The potential of these new forms of communication have re-shaped participation, self-representation, and actions. Starting from e-democracy there have been cascades of e-participation phenomena generated with new ways of citizens’ self-involvement through new technologies. In order to assess the mutual relationship between new technologies, urban activism, public spaces and participatory democracy, a case of Italian digital activism representative of the repertoire of online and offline strategies, actions and narratives is selected. From the methodological point of view, the various stages of research foresee development on two axes: Sentiment Analysis and Discourse Analysis. The analysis will try to understand if online activists draw new relational geographies, thus allowing social movements to expand and create new connections. A virtual spatiality reflects on the web the fragmentation of movements in the real dimension, in which different souls converge, but also, at the same time, the ability to anchor themselves territorially in different contexts. |
