LIBRI DI GIOVANNI BOCCIA ARTIERI

Analysing how the relationship between individual and society is articulating asks for dealing with the forms of connexion between these two separate levels by the access to a median observation level of relational kind. In accordance with Michel Serres this level can be identified in the multiple, and observed in the form of the multitude, a stage of pre-aggregation that stands out on the background of the social contingence as a growing phenomenon. From this point of view the dynamics of getting other is sociologically noticeable; dynamics which is the process of virtualisation that concerns the status of contingence, interiorized by the subject and prompted by the informational technologies. This status shows itself in the body, progressively see-through, and in the constitution of community neo-forms, interpreted as plural subjectivities. Adequate contests to the renewed process of the hominescence.

This article is part of those studies which use the combination of two guiding principles of research as a method. On one hand an archaeological "digging out" which tries to identify the ways of co-dependence between social forms and media determinations. The specific forms took by media and the connections with the society proceed from a co-evolution that specifies only a few possible trends of development. A reticular connection between technologic occasions, ways of the market, conflictual and contractual dynamics among different social actors, etc. works only in some paths. On the other hand the study of these co-evolutions of knotty socio-media forms. In this prospective the research wants to identify a "palaeographic" layer in the socio-media reality of the civic nets in Italy. The study was carried out from 1996 to 1999. The proposed pattern in order to describe the Italian phenomenon of the civic nets outlines two types, according to an evolutive research starting from the origin of the social telematics in USA. The two net-forms are: the community network created "from the base", by no profit associations, founded on the voluntary service; these networks offer free access and services (i.e. an e-mail) and self-managed areas of discussion to the citizens. The other one is the civic nets, created by the local or regional government whose first aim is the accessibility to its documents and information. This net can be considered a way of alphabetisation in telematics. In the Italian case this type is improved by "shop window" sites, created by many local government for a mere promotion of the town and its services. This form can be considered like a first layer of the evolution towards a real civic net. The research consists of the analysis of five civic nets (Firenze, Modena, Desenzano sul Garda, San Donato Milanese and Urbino) close to the proposed patterns; the analysis has been carried out through an on-line questionnaire. The result of the research is that the civic nets are not yet an effective way for human promotion considering how fast the features of the telecom-nets, and the civic nets in particular, are changeable. The civic net, as virtual/ideal representation of the town, unavoidably reflects the several subjects that operate in the different sectors (in education, work, voluntary service, entertainment). Anyway many civic nets seem to pay no attention to the participative and cooperative potential they could and should offer the citizens, because they offer nothing but more or less sophisticated information services. Most part of the Italian civic nets are "shop window" sites and this fact is little justifiable because of the increasing alphabetisation in information science and the presence of guide-lines.

Il volume ricorda la figura di Achille Ardigò a un anno dalla sua morte, riflettendo sul contributo apportato alla sociologia della salute. Ardigò ha tematizzato il ruolo della malattia e della salute all’interno della sua sociologia, valorizzando il portato della sociologia come attore imprescindibile alla medicina; ma è anche il sociologo che si è fatto diffusore e interprete del concetto di mondo della vita nell’ambito di un nesso inscindibile con la salute umana.