The Mastodon in the room
A migration is happening from Twitter to Mastodon. What can we learn from it?
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The noble art of digital facilitation – pt. 1
The idea of a post about digital facilitation has been growing in my mind for a while – then the European community of trainers involved in non formal education activities gathered online recently, during the event called Mini-bridges for trainers: a shorter, lighter version of the multiple days event called Bridges for Trainers, happening every…
The social dilemma of surveillance capitalism
The Social Dilemma is a docu-drama movie available on Netlfix, which re-ignited the debate on the meaning, aims, hidden and inner mechanisms of social media platforms and their impact on youth, education, knowledge, and generally speaking, public behavior. The Social Dilemma has two layers: one is the story of a family where three sons and…
Digital YouthWork Sessions podcast n. 1 – it’s me!
I am very honored and grateful to have been interviewed in the first episode of Digital YouthWork Sessions podcast, hosted by my friend Juha Kiviniemi from Verke – I wrote about them here already! We spent 45 minutes chatting about what is digital youth work, how to do it properly, how to improve it, etc etc –…
InternetFestival : videogame – based learning – #IF2017
InternetFestival is a very serious thing, probably the most serious in Italy about network-related topics and trends. Yet 😀 the organization contacted me and my partner-in-crime Carmine , involving us in the T-Tour section, a series of public workshops during the festival. Apart from joking, the InternetFestival machine contacted us at the end of June to…
PokemonGO and augmented or decreased education?
PokemonGO , the game based on despicable manga monsters from a few years ago, is definitely the talk of the town during this period. And rightly so: I saw unsuspected graduates falling prey to their most unabashed nerd instincts, getting the app weeks before its release in Italy, to chase Pikachu and friends everywhere, spotting them trough…
Will you join us? -a memory of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz wrote: There is no justice under these unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We…
American Lectures – six memos for the next web
Last week I gave a lecture in a training course for workers in the local Public Healthcare Agency in Monza. What do the American lectures matter with this? While preparing the presentation which was a script to my rants 🙂 at one point I had one of those enlightments which put in front of your eyes a simple, easy thing… such a…
Storytelling is the next big thing? new social media coming.
Since December 2011 I’m exploring Cowbird, a (not so) small socialnetwork of storytelling, that is … tellers of stories. Since some time I’m also witnessing the birth of Medium, whose early-adopters are a closed group defined by the founders, with the commitment to open it up soon to the whole world. A soon which is lasting for several months, anyway. At first glance they are felt a little different. Yet Cowbird, without advertising…