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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…

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What Big Data Is and How Can We Use It

In recent years, we have witnessed an exponential growth of the amount of data we are generating. As an example, consider the numbers depicted in Figure 1, that shows what happens in one minute in Internet, for both the years…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

When quality measures the distance between valorization and commodification

There is a shared vision which wants that every kind of good and service can be transformed in a product. It doesn’t matter what kind of good or service is. This perspective is not so bad as it could sound…

Culture and Tourism

Big-Data to understand touristic and cultural dynamics: a fractal framework.

The Big-Data revolution has been immediately accepted in several industries, in particular the military and defense industries, by various economic and social actors, usually linked to multinational corporations, as a fresh source of innovation. In the cultural sector, these new…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Transforming Historical Cities in Smart Cities by Using Geospatial Technologies

The term geospatial in the Anglo-Saxon world – but also in the scientific and technical Italian elite – is slowly replacing the word Gis, acronym of Geographic Information System. Geospatial is interpreted as a synonym of geographical notions, in a…

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Before Web-Marketing. Digital research for cities and cultural institutions

1. Cultural sites Online Visibility Online visibility of a a cultural site can be considered a strong indicator of the institutional ability to activate the cultural heritage. Hand in hand with the spread of the Internet and its penetration into…