Exploring Digital Society http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7216 2026-04-14T15:01:14Z 2026-04-14T15:01:14Z Ragnedda, Massimo Ruiu, Maria Laura http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7182 2025-08-01T07:35:34Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digital society: risks and challenges Ragnedda, Massimo; Ruiu, Maria Laura

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Acampa, Suana Crescentini, Noemi Giuseppe Michele, Padricelli http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7181 2025-08-01T07:35:42Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it still disintermediated? The role of the influencer news-maker in the social platform era Acampa, Suana; Crescentini, Noemi; Giuseppe Michele, Padricelli n the last 20 years, the Internet revolution has driven the traditional news-models featured by the journals' gatekeeping towards a brand-new disintermediated logic made by prosumers. This phenomenon has drastically reshaped the logics of the news dissemination, forcing a rethink of journalists’ role. Through a research design based on a content analysis conducted on Facebook, the aim of this paper is to identify the features of the journalists’ reinvention today we can define as influencer news-makers. To achieve our research goal, we identified five of the most influential Italian journalists on social media, and the respective publishers they work with. Analyzing about 20,000 social media posts, the main results from this study concern the emergence of two different profiles: the journalist who reinvents traditional news making practices by exploiting the logics of social media and the journalist who integrates the promotion practices of his own content in the gatekeeping process

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Caponera, Elisa Annunziata, Francesco Palmerio, Laura http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7180 2025-08-01T07:35:50Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computer and Information Literacy at the eighth grade: differences between boys and girls Caponera, Elisa; Annunziata, Francesco; Palmerio, Laura In recent decades, ICT has radically transformed our daily lives, work and social relationships, trying to understand how young people are prepared for this new challenge iscrucial.This study investigated the gender differences in International Computer and Information Literacy Study(ICILS) results. Italian students participating in ICILS 2018 (n=2810; mean age:13,3) were considered. The sample was representative of Italian students at the beginning of the eighth grade. Students answered the CIL (Computer and Information Literacy) international questionnaire including questions about students’ socio-economic and cultural background, future expectations about ICT usage for work and study, ICT skills to complete a range of different tasks, self-efficacy towards ICT.A structural equation model (SEM) was adopted to perform a path analysis to test a relationship between student characteristics and CIL performance.The results evidenced thatthe relationships between CIL, on one hand, and self-confidence andexpectations for the use of ICT for work and study, on the other hand, differ between boys and girls. Moreover, self-efficacy mediates the variables’ effects for the girls: a higher level of self-efficacy reinforces the relationship between ICT Learning and CIL.On the basis of the results, some possible implications for the Italian school system are discussed

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Cavagnuolo, Michela http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7179 2025-08-01T07:36:00Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Italian perspective on the use of Big Data in Sociological Field: Implications, Empirical Findings and an Impact Analysis on the Discipline Cavagnuolo, Michela Digital development has invested predominantly in all fields of society: the field of sociology and in general the field of social sciences are not exempt. Starting from these considerations, the social scientist is called to integrate everything within his studies with technological innovations and new tools that modifies and innovates the typical toolbox of the study. This change creates a strong interdisciplinary context. An analysis of the changes and impact of the use of Big Data within the social sciences and how they modify the work of the social scientist therefore becomes necessary.

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