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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…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

“Open by vocation”: The Museum Salinas 2.0 and the sicilian anomaly in a social key

The archaeolgical museum Antonio Salinas in Palermo, closed for repairs, from a year up to the present has revamped his image thanks to social media and the adhesion to some campaigns as #invasionidigitali - #digitalinvasion, TN - and #museumweek, finding…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Nudging, Gamification and Paternalism

Paternalism assumes an authority that tries to influence the behavior of people under its guidance in order to improve the wellbeing of the latter. This can be implemented by more or less strict regulations limiting the set of alternatives to…

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…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

Introduction 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…

Creating Culture

From the mirror to the screen: some videoart’s intuitions

After first experimentations of visual effects the video could generate, it became an introspective way to make art. An external device can show the artist to the artist, this is the point. So everything changed.

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

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The advent of the Digital Era and, subsequently, of Media Culture has not only changed the way we think, act and interact with the world but also interfered with our more basic motor skills and the way our body operates…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Managing change and intimacy in the present

Heraclitus is often cited as the source of the quote, “The only constant in life is change.” This seems to ring true now, more than ever, as advances in technology rapidly change our cultures: the ways we communicate and express…

Technology for Culture - Culture for Technology

American Museums versus Italian Museums online: are they so dissimilar?

Not unlike Italy, the cultural institutions of the United States are part of a prism returning different shades of quality in managing new digital tools. Let us take social media as an example for all: when asked to specify the…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Which oil for culture? – Quale olio per la cultura?

Because of the economic crisis that marks not only Italy, but also many of the European countries and not, and that has led and will lead to a drastic reduction in the resources allocated to the cultural system it’s necessary,…