Fausto Colombo
Titoli dell'autore
The Generational Role of Media and Social Memory:
A Research Agenda
digital

Anno:
2019
The theme of the relation between the media and the generations has been much explored in recent years, with significant results in both the field of media studies and the sociology of culture. On the media studies side the generational approach has been particularly important in relativising the role of technical evolution...
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The Post-Intermediation of Truth. Newsmaking from Media Companies to Platforms
digital

Anno:
2017
“Post-truth”, the 2016 word of the year, has been defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. In fact, the notion risks becoming little more than a buzzword, given that the epistemic, social, political, and cultural issues at stake behind the current debate on Post-Truth are so numerous, so differentiated and intertwined...
Crisis, Innovation and the Cultural Industry in Italy
digital

Anno:
2017
The essay aims to highlight the complex theme of media relations and crisis within the history of the Italian media system. The perspective used here makes possible a new periodization of the national media system, one that goes beyond the monomedial perspectives that are largely prevalent today...
Controllo, identità, parresia. Un approccio foucaultiano al web 2.0
digital

Anno:
2012
RIASSUNTO
Ho provato a esplorare l’applicabilità di tre concetti foucaultiani (rapporto tra potere e controllo sociale, dire
di sé, rapporto tra diritto di parola e verità nei contesti democratici) al dibattito sul web 2.0. Mi pare di aver
dimostrato che – più che le risposte – le domande di Foucault abbiano una forte applicabilità, soprattutto se il
metodo di analisi dello studioso francese viene assunto nelle sue radici o nella sua forma specifica, che consiste
nell’interrogare i fenomeni in relazione agli statuti e ai dispositivi sociali complessivi anziché ai luoghi,
alle tecniche, o alle manifestazioni specifiche.
Se ho ragione, accogliere metodo e domande foucaultiane significa ridefinire alcune questioni: il dibattito
fra libertà e potere sul web può trasformarsi in indagine sulle forme specifiche dell’inevitabile potere nella
società delle reti. L’approccio all’esplosione autobiografica si traduce in una domanda sulle modalità e le condizioni
del dire di sé a partire dalla pressione sociale a esercitarlo. La polemica sulla democraticità della rete
si può rimodulare in una interrogazione sulle condizioni della verità e sulla forma del sapere che vi circola.
Tre riformulazioni, la cui chiave giace nelle pagine lasciate da Foucault, ben prima della nascita del
web. Ma ben dentro, si intende, il divenire della società tardo moderna.
SUMMARY
I tried to apply three of Foucault’s concepts (relation between power and social control, talking about oneself, relation between the right of speech and truth in democratic contexts) to the debate on web 2.0. I believe I have proved that – not just his answers – but above all Foucault’s questions have a strong applicability, especially if the analysis method of the French scholar is taken to its roots and its specific forms, i.e. the interpretation of phenomena in relationship to statutes and social apparatuses at large, instead of specific places, techniques, or events.
If I am correct, welcoming Foucault’s method and questions means re-defining certain issues: the debate between freedom and power over the web may be transformed into a survey on the specific and inevitable forms of web power over society. The approach to an autobiographical outburst becomes translated into a question regarding the ways and conditions of talking about oneself in order that social pressure may wield it. The controversy over web democracy can be re-modulated as an interrogation on the conditions of truth and the forms of knowledge which flow through it.
Three rephrasings then. Their key lies in the pages left by Foucault, long before the web was born. But of course well inside the rise of post modern society.
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Gli attentati di Madrid nella stampa italiana
digital

Anno:
2008
The article gives an account of a research on the information treatment given to the attacks of Madrid happened
on March 11 th 2004 by four national daily papers.
In the first days after the attacks it is verifiable a predictable massive coverage of the facts, that joins
the newspapers taken into consideration. In parallel, a universalist isotope transversally dominates, founded
upon the humanitarian rhetoric: the description both oral and iconic of the innocent victims, the definition of
the terrorist acts in themselves as anti-human and pre-political actions. In the initial phase of the information,
the narrative and commented registers are open to a plurality of interpretative hypothesis. This, however,
leaves well soon the place to some choices on which the headings are markedly divided. If in fact the victims
are universally innocent, and the solidarity with them can only be immediate, the executioners’ identification
brings along political interpretation and different results in journalistic attitudes.
We find therefore a narrative formulation, founded upon investigation and mystery, strong in a newspapers
such as «Repubblica», in which the talent for detective journalism is stronger.
It occurs then a diplomatic attitude, of disenchanted comment, as far as possible, in which what is
reconstructed is the International scenery, with particular reference to the fight of the democratic countries
against global terrorism; the «Corriere della Sera» seems to privilege this perspective.
Finally there is a political-ideological attitude, which slowly brings the themes to an ideological
scenery applicable to Italian history.
«The Giornale» and «the Manifesto» are inserted in this discursive choice: therefore, the victims and
the executioners continually exchange their place and the proximity between the Spanish government of
Aznar and the Italian one of Berlusconi are read only as one front (to be supported in «the Giornale»’s opinion,
to be fought in «the manifesto»’s opinion).
The defeat of Aznar becomes the pre-figuration of Silvio Berlusconi’s defeat. The scene changes, the
victims, slowly fade away.
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Sicurezza alimentare e comunicazione del rischio: il caso Aviaria
digital

Anno:
2008
The contemporary society is countersigned by a progressive substitution of the concept of fear by that of risk,
which contemplates the rational possibility of control on the dangerousness of a given phenomenon by the
individual and the system. The article starts from the terminological and conceptual distinction between risk
and danger, and indicates then two types of communication: the communication of crisis and the communication
of the risk. On this last one strongly weighs the communicative intervention of the media.
The probability of risk varies as the system ability to know how to react to the emergency situations
varies, and not simply with the possibility in itself that the event happens: according to this approach it is
therefore necessary to elaborate tools to prevent and check the risks, through the management of the system
efficiency, regularizing the information flows among the subjects composing the communicative chain of risk
and emergency: institutions, media and citizens.
The analysis of a particular case (the diffusion of H5N1 virus – generally known as being responsible
for the «avian influence» – in the period included between August 2005 and March 2006, in the informative
coverage operated by the «Corriere della Sera» and by the Tg1) allows identifying some problems of risk
communication by the Institutions and to verify their consequences in food consumption in Italy.
It emerges that the media discourses are very powerful in creating awareness of the danger, but they are
contradictory in creating a correct perception of the risk; secondly, the media discourses seem to be weak in
driving the consumers’ behaviour: the population manifests a certain distrust towards the evaluation of the
risk operated by «expert systems», deciding alone the purchasing behaviour to be adopted.
The last part of the article describes a best practice: the planning and realization of a food safety manual
edited by an Italian Ministry, starting from the awareness acquired during the avian emergency.
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