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Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town's residents, exploring what it means to be an individual on social media. Why do people from this region conform on platforms that are designed for personal expression? Nicolescu argues that social media use in this region of the world is related to how people want to portray themselves. He pays special attention to the ability of users to craft their appearance in relation to collective ideals, values and social positions, and how this feature of social media has, for the residents of the town, become a moral obligation: they are expected to be willing to adapt their appearance to suit their different audiences at the same time, which is crucial in a town where religion and family are at the heart of daily life.

Civilization.

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Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town's residents, exploring what it means to be an individual on social media. Why do people from this region conform on platforms that are designed for personal expression? Nicolescu argues that social media use in this region of the world is related to how people want to portray themselves. He pays special attention to the ability of users to craft their appearance in relation to collective ideals, values and social positions, and how this feature of social media has, for the residents of the town, become a moral obligation: they are expected to be willing to adapt their appearance to suit their different audiences at the same time, which is crucial in a town where religion and family are at the heart of daily life.

Civilization.

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The volume Trasparenze ed epifanie. Quando la luce diventa letteratura, arte, storia, scienza ("Transparencies and epiphanies. When light becomes literature, art, history, science") brings together thirty contributions presented at the interdisciplinary conference organized at the University of Florence on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015. Scholars in the fields of science, history, history of art and cinema, philosophy, philology, Italian and foreign literature and literature literary theory from seven departments of the Florentine university introduce various meanings and symbolic representations of the concept light during the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary epoch. Moreover, they also propose a common "luminous journey" in the civilisation of open scientific and cultural discussion.

Civilization, Ancient

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Play --- Civilization

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L'histoire du quotidien des temps passés est devenue indispensable pour appréhender une époque. Outre les grands événements politiques, la compréhension de la société de la France moderne passe par le rapport de l'homme aux objets et révèle les différents niveaux de la réalité du temps : histoire sociale, économique, culturelle, mais aussi scientifique et technique. Entre villes et campagnes, la description des habitats, des pratiques alimentaires, des parures du corps autant que des intérieurs et des objets permet de dessiner un portrait sensible des Français d'hier. S'appuyant sur les sources les plus diverses : lettres, inventaires après-décès, statistiques, littérature et iconographie, cette histoire « modeste » propose une vision toujours plus précise de la société française à travers son évolution sur trois siècles.

France --- Civilization.