This study analyses cultural and communicative processes within the platform society, both as symbolic repositories of history, socio-techno-cultural worlds, economic models, and collective memory processes (Boccia Artieri et. al 2023; Colombo 2022; Halbwachs 1992). As well as social fields in which games for the hegemony of symbolic power are played out, within which narratives dealing with values, relations, and manifestations of power can manifest themselves (Bourdieu 1991; Couldry 2000, 2003; Gramsci [1929-1932] 2014). In the context of the hybrid ecosystem of Western platforms, this study, in a critical key concerning Eurocentrism, which can influence the social sciences and humanities, aims to investigate the media narratives, cultural forms, and socio-technical practices of certain liminal societies (cfr. Chadwick 2013; Van Dijck et al. 2018; Thomassen 2014). Situations in which the same liminal societies are experiencing a condition of transition or disruption of social order. Self-Other societies, also defined as the Other-Within (Trakilović 2016), which can offer insight into the in-between dimension, also as part of the European 'constitutive outside' (Butler 1993; Hall 2003; Laclau, Mouffe 1985). To detect whether, at the foundation of the social connective tissue, cultures show themselves as "never unitary, nor simply dualistic in the relationship between Self and Other’ (Bhabha 1994:36). From this perspective, albeit to a limited extent, this study attempts to contribute to epistemological justice (Said 1979; Bhambra 2023). Through an ecological, cultural, and critical approach to the ecosystem of platforms, the research constructs and investigates three case studies selected to assemble a work in which common issues emerge and are balanced across a group of cases, with the unique elements and contexts of each study (Creswell, Creswell 2023). The case studies covered digital information aggregated by Google News since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in Georgia, Poland, Serbia, and Turkey. Public sector communication, on Instagram and Twitter, on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union, comparing the communication practices of both institutional actors (D'Ambrosi 2019; Lovari, Ducci 2022). Finally, a comparison of two fictional, dystopian audiovisual products, one German and one Russian, on Netflix. The research also attempts to return an exploratory overview of the possibilities - experienced towards practices - of "decolonising" media practices within the current data colonialism of the platform society (Couldry, Mejtas 2019).

Il lavoro di ricerca concerne un’analisi dei processi culturali e comunicativi all’interno della platform society, sia in quanto depositi simbolici di storia, mondi socio-tecno-culturali, modelli economici e processi di memoria collettiva (Bartoletti 2011; Boccia Artieri et. al 2023; Colombo 2022;). Come anche campi sociali in cui si giocano partite per l’egemonia del potere simbolico, ed entro cui si possono manifestare narrazioni aventi a che fare con elementi valoriali, relazionali e manifestazioni del potere (Bourdieu 1991; Couldry 2000; 2003; Gramsci [1929-1932] 2014). Nel contesto dell’ecosistema ibrido delle piattaforme occidentali, lo studio, in chiave critica rispetto all’eurocentrismo che può influenzare le scienze sociali e gli studi umanistici; si propone di indagare narrazioni mediali, forme culturali e pratiche sociotecniche di alcune società liminali (cfr. Chadwick 2013; Van Dijck et al. 2018; Thomassen 2014). Rispetto a situazioni in cui le stesse società sperimentano una condizione di transizione, o sconvolgimento dell’ordine sociale. Società Sé-Altre, che possono offrire una panoramica sulla dimensione in-between, anche in quanto parte del “costitutive outside” europeo (Butler 1993; Hall 2003; Laclau, Mouffe 1985). Per rilevare se al fondamento del tessuto connettivo sociale, le culture si mostrino come “mai unitarie in sé, né semplicemente dualistiche nella relazione tra Sé e Altro” (Bhabha 1994: 36). In quest’ottica, seppur in misura ristretta, il lavoro di ricerca tenta di contribuire in termini di giustizia epistemologica (Said 1979; Bhambra 2023). Attraverso un approccio ecologico, culturale e critico all’ecosistema delle piattaforme, la ricerca costruisce e indaga tre casi di studio, selezionati nell’obiettivo di dar vita ad un lavoro in cui emergano e siano bilanciate le questioni comuni attraverso il gruppo di casi, con le caratteristiche uniche e i contesti propri di ciascuno studio (Creswell, Creswell 2023). I casi studio riguardano: l’informazione digitale aggregata da Google News dallo scoppio del conflitto russo ucraino, in Georgia, Polonia, Serbia e Turchia. La comunicazione pubblica istituzionale comparata (Lovari, Ducci 2022), su Instagram e Twitter, sull’adesione della Bosnia-Erzegovina all’Unione Europea, comparando le pratiche comunicative di entrambi gli attori istituzionali. La comparazione di due prodotti audiovisivi finzionali, a carattere distopico, uno tedesco e uno russo, su Netflix. Il lavoro di ricerca tenta, inoltre, di restituire una panoramica esplorativa circa le possibilità, esperite nelle pratiche, di “decolonizzare” le pratiche mediali stesse, all’interno dell’attuale data colonialism della platform society (Couldry, Mejtas 2019).

Sull'Europa dei limini. Narrazioni culturali e pratiche comunicative dalla platform society

FOLENA, CAMILLA
2024

Abstract

This study analyses cultural and communicative processes within the platform society, both as symbolic repositories of history, socio-techno-cultural worlds, economic models, and collective memory processes (Boccia Artieri et. al 2023; Colombo 2022; Halbwachs 1992). As well as social fields in which games for the hegemony of symbolic power are played out, within which narratives dealing with values, relations, and manifestations of power can manifest themselves (Bourdieu 1991; Couldry 2000, 2003; Gramsci [1929-1932] 2014). In the context of the hybrid ecosystem of Western platforms, this study, in a critical key concerning Eurocentrism, which can influence the social sciences and humanities, aims to investigate the media narratives, cultural forms, and socio-technical practices of certain liminal societies (cfr. Chadwick 2013; Van Dijck et al. 2018; Thomassen 2014). Situations in which the same liminal societies are experiencing a condition of transition or disruption of social order. Self-Other societies, also defined as the Other-Within (Trakilović 2016), which can offer insight into the in-between dimension, also as part of the European 'constitutive outside' (Butler 1993; Hall 2003; Laclau, Mouffe 1985). To detect whether, at the foundation of the social connective tissue, cultures show themselves as "never unitary, nor simply dualistic in the relationship between Self and Other’ (Bhabha 1994:36). From this perspective, albeit to a limited extent, this study attempts to contribute to epistemological justice (Said 1979; Bhambra 2023). Through an ecological, cultural, and critical approach to the ecosystem of platforms, the research constructs and investigates three case studies selected to assemble a work in which common issues emerge and are balanced across a group of cases, with the unique elements and contexts of each study (Creswell, Creswell 2023). The case studies covered digital information aggregated by Google News since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in Georgia, Poland, Serbia, and Turkey. Public sector communication, on Instagram and Twitter, on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union, comparing the communication practices of both institutional actors (D'Ambrosi 2019; Lovari, Ducci 2022). Finally, a comparison of two fictional, dystopian audiovisual products, one German and one Russian, on Netflix. The research also attempts to return an exploratory overview of the possibilities - experienced towards practices - of "decolonising" media practices within the current data colonialism of the platform society (Couldry, Mejtas 2019).
29-apr-2024
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