Italiano New media as semi-technical devices. A pedagogical view italiano

Abstract

Both in the humanistic and scientific fields, there are endless talk of the digital revolution. This issue deserves more in-depth consideration for two reasons: firstly for the undeniable influence that the new media have on social relations, daily life behavior and human experiences in general; secondly because emerging technologies, in a specific historical and cultural context, are not a simply tool ready to use by human beings, but a medium trough which meanings and social realities are built. From an educational point of view, it becomes interesting to consider how new digital technologies influence and reshaped people's life experiences. To this end, the article proposes a pedagogical reading of new media as dispositifs semio-techniques (Foucault, 1975). They are codified collection of ideas, ideologies and representations that influence and transform – together with specific material apparatus, through speeches and by taking hold of bodies – social behaviors and processes of identity construction. The technologies in this sense are experiential mediators: they co-create daily routines and actions, modify the relationships between individuals, objects, space, time and bodies, contributing to produce new subjectivities.