"Spotto la quarantena": per una analisi dell'italiano scritto degli studenti universitari via social network in tempo di COVID-19

Abstract

“Spotted” posts represent one of the most popular forms of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) among university students in Italy, and as such, they represent a privileged context to analyze the Italian language used by students on the Web This kind of informal communication channels is active especially on Instagram, and provides relevant insights on the spontaneous writing of young people Based on Spotted-ITA Corpus, a corpus of over 30,000 posts retrieved from Italian Spotted accounts on Instagram, this paper presents a focus on the period of lockdown in Italy due to COVID pandemics and its immediately preceding period, showing how this corpus can be useful in analyzing the way Italian university students communicated during this unique and extraordinary experience Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors