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Social magazines and the personalization of reading governed by AI algorithms

Social magazines are platforms for online content selection and publishing equipped with effective layout and sharing solutions. An innovative aspect of Social Magazines is the creation of real magazines with thematic channels, obtained only by aggregating and displaying external content, not produced by the author or publisher of the Social Magazine itself. Among the most…

The video resource and AI

In traditional educational and cultural institutions, text often remains the predominant educational tool. However, there is no denying the enourmous potential and effectiveness of video for educational purposes. The video resource is now abundant on the Web, and only in part recognised for the quality tool that it is. An interesting example is the area…

The Wikipedia case: participatory knowledge

One must also consider phenomena such as Wikipedia, which through a participatory mechanism has created a new form of universal encyclopedia that is constantly updated in dozens of languages. A project that would have been simply unthinkable only 20 years ago, in the days of CD ROM encyclopedias. No publisher would have the resources to…

From risks to opportunities in accessing networked culture and AI

After a lengthy dissection of the risks associated with the Internet and Artificial Intelligence, however, we should take time to appreciate the positive aspects: it should be noted that the participatory Web offers significant opportunities for access to culture and content of high quality. While it is true that everyone has become an author, even…

Internet: from point-to-point communication to AI

The Internet reverses and twists this approach through what can be called a point-to-point network. The possibility of making direct connections between users accessing the network is a mode of communication that, in a sense, was anticipated by the telephone, a media that, thanks to the switched network, makes it possible to communicate directly from…

Traditional media: point-to-multi-point transmission

The Internet has disrupted traditional ways of organizing the relationship between author-publisher and content user. In traditional media, the form of content transmission can be described as point-multi-point. From a central point of publication that transmits (the publisher), the same content reaches many points of fruition (the audience). This mode applies to all mass media,…

The dominant platforms: the global internet companies “Over The Top”

A new dominant layer has appeared in the network since the 2000s, which is the layer of the “over-the-top platform”: for example, the social media Facebook, or the search engine Google, which is the way to access content. Such enterprises, lacking their own telecommunications network infrastructure, act above the physical networks, hence the definition Over-The-Top….

The flattening of content quality on the Web

Precisely because of the mechanism of economic valorization of content on the Web today, there is no proper hierarchy among sources and among content that would, for example, properly represent its level of quality or ethicality. Generative AI is further contributing to the homogenization and flattening of content published on the Internet, which is now…

The negative impulse of social media – bullying, haters and trolls

Various aspects of networking and Social Media push people to express not the best, but the worst of themselves. A first aspect that most likely fosters this behavioral drift is the perception of “non-responsibility” or “non-actionability” of what is said online. Many users are convinced that they can express themselves without limits: they can insult,…

Networked ethics and algorithms

It is clear that the mechanisms for rotating content online can lead to problems. It is an issue that even the Global Internet Company platforms are beginning to address, not least because they have been assailed by lawsuits from states and regulatory bodies demanding that they intervene in the algorithms that govern the rotation itself….