Web and AI: risk and resource

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…

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…

Machine translation: the web as a translinguistic resource

From its inception and naming, the World Wide Web has declared its universality, and has fueled the myth of an instantly accessible global media library. This vision is partly realized, but time has not yet abolished a fundamental barrier: language differences. For example, for most Italians, reading content in a foreign language is still de…

The forms of control and censorship on the Internet and in AI

In truth, even on the Internet, on social media and in AI models there are forms of content control, almost always automated and only rarely moderated by human supervisors, that can be likened to the concept of censorship. For example, sexually explicit content is often filtered and censored by search engines but also by social…

The challenge of digital mediation for the educational and cultural community

With the advent of AI, digital is no longer just about information or entertainment, but now directly impacts knowledge. Training intellectual and cognitive skills has always been the key focus of the educational community, which cannot remain indifferent or passive in the face of the new challenge. The role of educators and cultural mediators must…