The aim of this work is to investigate, from a methodological point of view, the netnographic approach, highlighting opportunities and limits of its use for social research. After explaining the reasons why social ...

The main objective of this work is to make a contribution to the existing international debate with regard to the consumer protection, a very important discipline for all citizens’ daily life. The opening words of this ...

L'identità sembra essere il punto critico in cui si riversano le tensioni del corpo sociale durante le fasi di crisi, ma anche la base da cui spesso si riparte verso nuove conquiste culturali, politiche e scientifiche. ...

This thesis proposes an interdisciplinary analysis (Gender Studies, Visual Studies, History of Medicine) of clinical and visual media, particularly medical imaging in a gender perspective. This work is based on a research ...

In Computational Linguistics there is an essential dichotomy between Linguists and Computer Scientists. The rst ones, with a strong knowledge of language structures, have not engineering skills. The second ones, ...

Space-time orientation is closely dependent on input, and therefore on perception. As learning progresses, the consolidation of acquisitions and the transformation of abilities into competencies takes place. Motor skills ...

The notion of “postcinema” refers to the process of radical transformation of the 19th century cinematographic medium. Digital media have undermined his photographic status, on the one hand, and his nature of collective ...

The aim of this experimental study is to investigate the representation and processing of regular, sub-regular and irregular verbal forms of Italian. In psycholinguistics, the debate on the processing of regular and ...

The aim of this work is to focus on how lexically ambiguous words are represented in the mental lexicon of speakers. The existence of words with multiple meanings/senses (e.g., credenza, mora, etc. in Italian) is a pervasive ...

The present research investigates neighbourhood size and neighbourhood frequency effects in recognition of Italian written words. Neighbourhood size is the number of words that may be generated by changing one letter of ...