Here’s why I don’t use Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and why you shouldn’t either (especially now, in 2025)

Here’s why I don’t use Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and why you shouldn’t either (especially now, in 2025)

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Since I deleted my Whatsapp profile a few years ago (the only profile left of myself on Meta evil empire) I keep getting glared at, teased or scolded by friends and acquaintances. This doesn’t bother me much because it was expected. But there are two things that do bother me, a lot. The first one is that when it comes to digital technologies, even most of the politically engaged people who are attentive to critical consumption and ethical choices in…

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Part of the cover of "la matière même du temps" record
I have made a record, it’s called “la matière même du temps” and it’s out now!

I have made a record, it’s called “la matière même du temps” and it’s out now!

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If you have been following me for some time, you probably know that I like to play with sounds and voices: I have been a drummer, I created, hosted and produced radio shows, podcasts and other audio projects. In 2022 I got myself a drum machine, I played with it in my spare time (which was very little in the last years, unfortunately), created sounds, songs, experiments… and, finally, an actual record, which is out today on Bandcamp! You can…

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[Publication] Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer

[Publication] Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer

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The volume 3 n. 2 (2024) of the academic journal Re:visit – Humanities and Medicine in Dialogue has just been published. Based at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, the journal participates in the international debate within Medical Humanities, with articles in German and English. In this last volume, edited by Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll and Maria Heidegger, you can find my article “Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer“. The article focuses on…

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Intestazione del sito Socialini.it - Un esperimento pedagogico
Socialini all’Hack or Di(y|e) (Bologna, 29-30 novembre 2024)

Socialini all’Hack or Di(y|e) (Bologna, 29-30 novembre 2024)

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Nei pochissimi ritagli liberi di tempo, sto partecipando al progetto Socialini, un esperimento pedagogico, “una palestra di autoeducazione digitale, per bambinə e ragazzə di tutte le età”, creato da Morloi, Kenobit, FdA e dal sottoscritto. Perché un progetto educativo sull’uso della rete e dei social? Lə “Nativə Digitalə”, sia la Gen Z, sia la Gen Alpha, hanno in realtà enormi difficoltà a gestire correttamente il flusso di social, piattaforme di intrattenimento, risorse e strumenti, proprio per il fatto che, avendoli…

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[Publication] Critical Digital Humanities: text, code and algorithms

[Publication] Critical Digital Humanities: text, code and algorithms

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The timing of the academia, it is known, can be really long and sometimes things just get stuck. I forgot about this article for a long time, then in the last days I remembered it. It is the updated version of a paper I presented at a conference in april 2021 (actually, it was my first conference as a doctoral candidate) and I thought it was useless in a folder on my laptop so I published it on Zenodo. Now…

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[Publication] Caché derrière les écrans : le littéraire entre l’humain et la machine

[Publication] Caché derrière les écrans : le littéraire entre l’humain et la machine

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Le numéro 62 (2024) de la revue Lingue e Linguaggi vient de paraître aux éditions ESE – Salento University Publishing, sous la direction de Ilaria Cennamo (Università degli Studi di Torino), Fabio Libasci (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria) et Silvia Modena (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia). Les directeurs présentent ainsi la publication dans l’introduction: nous souhaitons prendre en compte plusieurs genres de discours (littéraire, institutionnel, politique, médiatique, sportif) dans l’intérêt d’étudier les transformations déterminées par le médium du…

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il mezzo busto di Margaret Thatcher con dietro, sullo sfondo, il logo di OpenAI
L’IA come thatcherismo algoritmico

L’IA come thatcherismo algoritmico

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Questo articolo è stato scritto da Dan McQuillan e pubblicato il 21 dicembre 2023. Il testo fa alcuni riferimenti specifici al Regno Unito e al suo contesto socio-politico-economico ma, siccome la diffusione della cosiddetta intelligenza artificiale sta avvenendo più o meno con le stesse modalità a livello globale, mi è sembrato interessante tradurlo per il pubblico italiano, perché l’articolo offre molti spunti critici di riflessione su un tema di grande attualità. Ho quindi chiesto il permesso all’autore di tradurre il…

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[Pubblicazione] Screenshots, smartphones e le nostre vite digitali: su #nyc di Jeff Mermelstein

[Pubblicazione] Screenshots, smartphones e le nostre vite digitali: su #nyc di Jeff Mermelstein

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È uscito oggi il volume numero 2 dei Quaderni del Dottorato – Dipartimento LILEC, intitolato Leggere, (ri)scrivere e condividere: vecchie e nuove pratiche di significazione, a cura di Simone Carati, Michele Morselli e Andrea Suverato. Cito dall’abstract del volume: Meme, twitteratura, micronarrativa social, fanfictions e web comics sono soltanto alcune delle nuove forme di scrittura emerse nell’ambito della cultura postmediale. All’avvento di tecnologie sempre più all’avanguardia e dell’era social è infatti conseguita la proliferazione di nuove pratiche di lettura, (ri)scrittura…

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[Publication] Humain-Machine : une relation de traductions (entre numérique et cognition) paru aux Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

[Publication] Humain-Machine : une relation de traductions (entre numérique et cognition) paru aux Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

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Le livre Traduction humaine et traitement automatique des langues. Vers un nouveau consensus ? vient de paraître aux éditions de l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Il s’agit d’un volume collectif sous la direction de Nicolas Froeliger (Université Paris Cité), Claire Larsonneur (Universitè Paris VIII de Vicennes à Saint-Denis) et Giuseppe Sofo (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) qui “explore la possibilité et les contours d’un nouveau consensus entre les usages humains des langues et la contribution des machines”. Les articles qui composent…

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3 euros de plus pour un livre neuf : la loi française anti-Amazon qui pourrait favoriser son monopole [mis à jour]

3 euros de plus pour un livre neuf : la loi française anti-Amazon qui pourrait favoriser son monopole [mis à jour]

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À partir du 7 octobre 2023, acheter un livre en ligne et le faire livrer en France coûte trois euros de plus. Cette loi vise à protéger les librairies françaises qui souffrent de la concurrence d’Amazon. Ces frais supplémentaires s’appliquent aux commandes inférieures à 35 euros ou aux commandes supérieures à 35 euros lorsque les livres sont toutefois expédiés séparément. Prenons un exemple pour comprendre : si j’achète en ligne un livre dont le prix de couverture est de 17…

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