Culture for Societies: Communication – Government Issues

Tactics and strategies of resistance: a socio-political reading of Spartak Lecce

This paper examines the case of Spartak Lecce, a popular football team founded in 2013, which uses sport as a tool of social and political resistance. Through Michel de Certeau's theoretical framework, the analysis investigates the transition from tactical practices…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Connected refugees: (liquid) surveillance or computer management of migration?

In the time of covid-19, a lack of data can mean social invisibility, the cancellation of fundamental rights, and death. In the current political and pandemic climate, in Italy, in Europe, and other countries around the world the migration discourse…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Boosting gender equality through music production. A case study on two Italian female brass bands

The new centrality of the cultural and creative sectors in the socio-economic development of contemporary capitalist societies has brought to acknowledge arts and culture as a fundamental asset for territorial development. The debate has mostly focussed on the potential role…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Intercultural and institutional sociology. Attempts at integration within the information society.

In a global modernity, individuals and communities from different parts of the world are now able to build new models and aspirations at the same time thanks to the opportunities offered by new communication tools that constantly provide resources for the definition of individual…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

The practice of predicting the future has a long history, ranging from personal consultation in the patterns of coffee grounds to global computational projections derived from vast sums of data. The longing for a vision of the future offering some…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Local Conflicts and the NO-TAP Protest

This paper is about the local conflict which emerged in Apulia, and more exactly in the province of Lecce, as a form of opposition to the major project known as TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline), aimed at transporting Azeri natural gas to…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Sociology of dissent: American Beatniks and pre-sixty-eight Europe

In the Fifties of the XX century, American provincial and urban roads were occupied by “groups of vagrants”, who theorized an unusual “on the road” culture with their own ethics and their own “way of life”. The assault on culture…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The Ministry Organization after the introduction of the recent reform

The law number 5 of 29 January 1975 instituted the Ministero per I Beni e le Attività Culturali e Ambientali[2]. Its original tasks were related to the conservation and valorization of artistic heritage and natural beauties. In 1998, the denomination…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Made in Italy between «invention» and tradition. The hi-storytelling of past advertising and communication campaigns in the context of corporate historical archives and museums

Abstract The paper discusses some explorative research investigating the creative re-use of past advertising and communication campaigns in the context of corporate historical archives and museums. From a preliminary literature review, the research analyzed in the field the experiences…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Treasure Hunt as a strategic tool for audience development

“To the Congregation of the Oratory in Naples 250 ducati and for you, Dionisio Lazzari, at completion 1000 ducati as this much you have spent for marbles, mother of pearl, precious stones and more and in labor to build the…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

When the Greeks Loved the Germans: The Political Economy of King’s Otto Reign

In 1832 Prince Otto Wittelsbach of Bavaria was appointed King of the newly founded independent Greek state. Otto’s reign was a momentous period for Greece, initially under Regency then under Otto as an absolute ruler and from 1843 as a…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Museums’ visitors in Italy

In a country where cultural participation generates alarming negative numbers (in 2015, 68.3% of the Italian population has never entered a museum [1] ), it becomes crucial to understand the new public and study suitable strategies for a cultural proposal…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Trust against fear. The Role of Culture and the Future of Europe

In a fragile political and economic framework, the attention to the role that culture can play in creating the bass for the future of Europe is growing rapidly. This paper investigates the impacts that culture create in several aspects of…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Arts and strategic communication in Italy and Spain: from sponsorship to corporate responsibility

The paper investigates the rise of business communication strategies based on culture and arts in Italy and Spain. As previous researches demonstrate, cultural communication can work as a strategic asset to develop corporate identity and reputation, enabling organizations to cultivate…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The Governance of Metropolitan Areas in Italy: a Plan to Enhance Competitiveness

This paper aims to underline the need for a “metropolitan governance” in Italy with particular emphasis on the central area of Veneto region. Following on from a recent work by the authors Corò e Dalla Torre (2015) the “metropolitan issue”…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Museums and Storytelling: From the last trends to the future

In 2010, Kelly found that museums’ adult visitors were deeply aware of their learning preferences and that they wanted experiences both educational and entertaining. On a more general scale, LaPlaca Cohen “Culture Track Report 2014” reveals how the meaning itself…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Bone’s Territories: Territorial Heritage and Local Autonomy in Italian Inner Areas

“Areas in the bone” is not just a quote: it is the metaphor of the load bearing structure of Italy as well as the plastic representation of the marginalization process of the inner areas of the country that started from…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Does movie poetics dream of territories?

A concept we can not avoid in our days talking about culture and the direction we're heading towards is globalization. It stretches itself out like an umbrella surrounding cultural phenome-na in a way not experienced before, and its creations make…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Innovation, Opportunity and Social Entrepreneurship

What actually makes a project or a company accountable with needs of society? And how the NGO or culture-driven organization could possibly avoid waste of resources and strive to deliver more socially responsible outcomes?

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

The discovery of arts and culture as global communication media. High-visibility experiences in the Italian and international scenario

If the powerful symbolic language related to artistic heritage can be considered the most brilliant intuition by first patrons and sponsors, during the last years the Italian scenario shows a real rush toward high-visibility cultural projects by global corporations, associating…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Staging the change?

The change required a different storytelling; the past order was being irreversibly abandoned, the new world seemed to grant a diffused welfare, if not happiness. Only creative artists could understand that such a change implied extremely high costs: the loss…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

How to deal with an increasing western-focused world?

The present world, dominated by high-speed information, easy access to knowledge and powerful cross-fertilisation of cultures, could on one hand ideally favour social and cultural integration by putting in contact different cultures, but on the other hand the shared feeling…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Il progetto di identità e la ri-significazione dei luoghi. Il patrimonio ebraico in Calabria

Il passaggio degli Ebrei in Calabria dal IV al XVI secolo d.C. lascia sul territorio elementi tangibili e tali da delineare un modello urbano, oggi di difficile interpretazione. L’apparente mancanza di rapporto tra esigenze culturali e tipologia rende determinante la…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Culture and social welfare: thinking about the bolognaise context

The article supports the thesis that culture is a real development engine able to enhance our social welfare. If public entities, associations and private bodies will adopt a joint point of view, results will be tangible.

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Analyzing the Network of the Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen. Reactions to the Farnesina Reform and Promotion of the Sistema Italia

The Italian Cultural Institutes are not just pivotal elements of the Italian cultural diplomacy but also crucial tools to promote Italian culture and language. The Reform of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010) determined a reorganization of both the internal…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Children and cultural policies in Europe

Today, children are a main target for many cultural institutions. There is no museum that does not devote space and activities for children and, more recently, also concert halls, orchestras and opera houses have opened their doors to the young…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

What is soft power if anything but Hollywood, MTV, and Mcdonalds?

Reflections on the political and economic relevance of “soft power” also understood as the level of attractiveness that a country is able to build on the basis of its cultural fruitions. Thus, “soft power” is not only considered in terms…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Social Innovation and the Arts. Artists alone are not enough!

While social innovation begins to be broadly embraced by policy-makers and scholars in the context of healthcare and education, hardly any research has been done in the fields of the arts and culture (Mulgan et al., 2007). This paper aims…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Theater on Television: A Discussion on the Creation of a Specialized Public Service Channel | Una televisione del teatro o una televisione sul teatro? Idee e riflessioni per istituire un canale tematico di servizio pubblico per lo spettacolo dal vivo

Italy joined the global celebration of World Theatre Day for the first time on March 27, 2010, marking a significant milestone in recognizing the importance of live performance. This event, initiated by UNESCO in 1961, highlights a renewed commitment to…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Making places: the plan as a process in the Green University project

A few months ago the new Campus of LUISS University in Roma was the object of an artistic action aimed at emphasizing the wasteful behaviour of its users (students as well as teachers) during their everyday activities.

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Rebuilding Abruzzo’s historic centers: A post-earthquake challenge | La sfida della rinascita post-terremoto dei centri storici abruzzesi

The inevitable has happened. The growing protests of the citizens of L'Aquila, and of the inhabitants of the other towns damaged by the April earthquake, reflect, as expected, a radically different climate compared to previous national traumas, both in terms…

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Culture for Societies: Communication – Government Issues

Connected refugees: (liquid) surveillance or computer management of migration?

Boosting gender equality through music production. A case study on two Italian female brass bands

Intercultural and institutional sociology. Attempts at integration within the information society.

The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

Local Conflicts and the NO-TAP Protest

Sociology of dissent: American Beatniks and pre-sixty-eight Europe

The Ministry Organization after the introduction of the recent reform

Made in Italy between «invention» and tradition. The hi-storytelling of past advertising and communication campaigns in the context of corporate historical archives and museums

Treasure Hunt as a strategic tool for audience development

When the Greeks Loved the Germans: The Political Economy of King’s Otto Reign

Museums’ visitors in Italy

The Governance of Metropolitan Areas in Italy: a Plan to Enhance Competitiveness

Bone’s Territories: Territorial Heritage and Local Autonomy in Italian Inner Areas

Does movie poetics dream of territories?

The discovery of arts and culture as global communication media. High-visibility experiences in the Italian and international scenario

Staging the change?

Il progetto di identità e la ri-significazione dei luoghi. Il patrimonio ebraico in Calabria

Analyzing the Network of the Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen. Reactions to the Farnesina Reform and Promotion of the Sistema Italia

Children and cultural policies in Europe

What is soft power if anything but Hollywood, MTV, and Mcdonalds?

Theater on Television: A Discussion on the Creation of a Specialized Public Service Channel | Una televisione del teatro o una televisione sul teatro? Idee e riflessioni per istituire un canale tematico di servizio pubblico per lo spettacolo dal vivo

Making places: the plan as a process in the Green University project

Rebuilding Abruzzo’s historic centers: A post-earthquake challenge | La sfida della rinascita post-terremoto dei centri storici abruzzesi