{"title":"The platform for the European public service media and culture sector; towards a sustainable and democratic model","authors":"Raluca Petre","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065002","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the author opens the discussion about using the current platform model but for public service ends backed by a democratic governance structu-ration. The main argument of this paper is that the affordances of the platform model can be used for public service media and culture ends; the European Broadcasting Union is the case-study that illustrates the point. The article explores whether the current criticism against high-tech platforms should be aimed at their structure and dynamics or whether the problem lies with governance. The article argues that it is not the structure or dynamic of platforms per se that are problem-atic, but the fact that platforms are governed by for-profit companies, which are interested in moderation and curation rather than in the quality of content itself.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135053542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gli autori","authors":"A cura della Redazione","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Platformisation, socio-political implications from Europe to China","authors":"Tatiana Mazali, Romina Surugiu","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giulia Allegrini, Giulia Alonzo, Roberta Paltrinieri
{"title":"I Festival cinematografici come dispositivi di crescita del benessere","authors":"Giulia Allegrini, Giulia Alonzo, Roberta Paltrinieri","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135004867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María José Pérez-Serrano, Gema Alcolea-Díaz, Carlo Sorrentino
{"title":"Alternative financing for digital media. The case of Valigia Blu and its commitment to crowdfunding","authors":"María José Pérez-Serrano, Gema Alcolea-Díaz, Carlo Sorrentino","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065008","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the relationship between journalistic projects and crowdfunding. The case study is Valigia Blu and its 2021 funding campaign. This paper (based on the analysis of 263 publications) sheds light on the revenue and financing of digital native communication media. The analysis of this case highlights how such journalism is largely based on discussion with the public, which, as a community that identifies with the values of the newspaper, contributes economically to support its informational goals.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critique of one-dimensional thought then and now. Confronting two critiques of ideology through a longer view of capitalist platformization","authors":"Daniel IBI","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065006","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the often-overlooked critiques of ideology in analyses of current capitalism. Therefor the concept \"platform\" is adapted to the capitalist market structure itself, allowing to compare different phases of capitalism's plat-formization and corresponding critiques. Marcuse's and Zuboff's analyses serve as case studies. Both examine the triad of capitalism, technology and subjective experience, arguing that technology stabilizes domination. In Zuboff's version consensus is achieved, not least, through the manipulation carried out by a \"new priesthood\" that employs \"means of behavioral modification\". The article con-cludes that, due to feudalization tendencies, such theory of priestly deception may, to an extent, be justified.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«We are new farmers selling products from rural area»: the labor process to perform authenticity of live e-commerce sellers in China","authors":"Shichang Duan","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065004","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the labor process to perform authenticity of live e-commerce sellers, so-called \"new farmers\", as entrepreneurial subjects, in rural China. The author conducted fieldwork in three live e-commerce teams for one year. Drawing on these data, this article elaborates the exploitative aspect of plat-form labor by describing the tension between mobilization narratives and the labor experience to perform authenticity. These mobilization narratives include interre-lated discourse praising performing authenticity of new farmers, including the ad-vantage of visualization technology, making the marginalized visible, and em-powerment for entrepreneurial individuals. However, these myth obscures the physical labor, gatekeeping process, and necessary capital to construct authentici-ty online. The author concludes by arguing the platform economy demands hybrid labor regime and enhances, instead of improving the social status of marginalized rural subjects.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135004889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli, Elisabetta Risi
{"title":"The rising of platformed education. Theoretical notes and interpretations of lived experiences","authors":"Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli, Elisabetta Risi","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065003","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the theoretical elaboration of teachers' lived experience, our study lays the ground for a critical assessment of online higher education. On the one hand, our analysis investigates an alternative to the hegemonic understanding of learning objectives as fetishized by \"measurability\" and results-oriented outcomes, which are considered to be subsumed as products of the hyper-industrialized education. On the other, we claim that our research participants operate as neoliberal subjectivities who have to adapt to remote teaching, mobilizing tendencies towards self-empowerment and self-activation.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The WeChat social media platform from a foreign institution perspective: WeChat's role as a soft power tool","authors":"Tatiana Mazali, Lorenza Scaldaferri","doi":"10.3280/sc2023-065005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/sc2023-065005","url":null,"abstract":"WeChat is the major Chinese social media platform, with over a billion users worldwide. Using WeChat is essential for Chinese citizens' daily lives, and at the same time for foreign individuals, institutions, and companies entertaining rela-tionships with the People's Republic of China (PRC). In this paper, the authors an-alyse the role of the WeChat social media platform as a soft power tool. Through the case study of Politecnico di Torino as a foreign institution opening a WeChat Official Account, the authors explore the numerous purposes the platform offers and its impact on a foreign institution.","PeriodicalId":493106,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia della comunicazione","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135005046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}