Luca Serafini
Biographic Data
| ID | 342812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Serafini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Serafini |
| SIGNATURE | SERAFINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5425-161X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The wall between journalism and advertising in times of platformization of the news. Evidence from the Italian case
The aim of this article is to identify the changes that have occurred in the function of the “wall” separating the newsroom from the business department in the years of the digitalization of news production, up to its platformization. To do this, we will focus on the Italian case, which is particularly interesting because it is a context in which journalism is more unlikely than elsewhere to generate revenues by exploiting the potential of digita…
Reaction videos as “interpassive” aesthetic experiences
This article examines reaction videos as a distinctive case of interpassive media consumption in the platform society. Rather than reading them through the dominant frame of interactivity, we argue that reaction videos foreground forms of delegated affective and interpretive labor that trouble conventional understandings of agency in digital environments. By drawing on philosophical accounts of passivity as an ethical and aesthetic openness to ot…
From Institutions to the Platform Society
In recent years, reflection on institutions has assumed great prominence in Italian Theory. Roberto Esposito especially, in his three most recent books, has provided a genealogy of institutions, aimed at challenging the prevailing way in which they have been thematized in Western thought. As he sees it, a repressive conception of institutions has dominated in philosophy as well as in sociology and legal studies, which views them as apparatuses th…
The old-new epistemology of digital journalism
In journalism studies, the advent of the World Wide Web and the rise of online journalism are generally associated with going beyond the objective, normative paradigm associated with the principles of philosophical and scientific modernity towards a postmodern paradigm centred on subjectivity and relativism. This article offers an alternative reading of the epistemology of online journalism: the fragmentation of audiences into homophilic networks…
Risk Narratives on Immigration During the Covid-19 Crisis in Italy
This work explores how the narrative on immigration changes when society is threatened by “real” risks, i.e., during the COVID-19 health crisis. We compared the frequency and engagement of over 348,684 posts published on Facebook between December 2019 and November 2020 by Italian politicians and news media. We identified two waves of “tangible crisis” assuming that in these two periods the risk stemming from COVID-19 was strongly perceived by the…
Trust and distrust in science
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
Il nuovo sensazionalismo delle «verità veloci»
Georg Simmel’s Social Aesthetics and the Digital Public Sphere
In this paper I use concepts of Georg Simmel’s social aesthetics to investigate and describe several relational and communicative dynamics that occur in the digital public sphere—where the aesthetic dimension has now assumed great importance. Specifically, Simmel’s work proves to be more suited than Habermas’s for understanding the mechanisms of “typification” and “gamification” found in online interactions between individuals. I further argue th…
Heideggerian Ethics and Kantian Ethics
The purpose of this paper is to show how the interaction between Kantian ethics and some aspects of Heideggerian philosophy can lead to the model of a subject in immediate relationship with others and with his or her community. The positions of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida on this question are presented in contrast with those of Alain Renaut and Emmanuel Lévinas to elucidate their differing ways of interpreting the relationship between Kant…
Beyond the Person
In this review of Persons and Things, recently translated into English and published by Polity Press, we discuss how this text investigates some of the most important themes of Roberto Esposito's thought. Specifically, the book continues the process of constructing an idea of community intended as lack, gift and impropriety that the Italian philosopher has been developing since the publication of Communitas. In this case, it is the notion of body…
Beyond the Person
In this review of Persons and Things, recently translated into English and published by Polity Press, we discuss how this text investigates some of the most important themes of Roberto Esposito's thought. Specifically, the book continues the process of constructing an idea of community intended as lack, gift and impropriety that the Italian philosopher has been developing since the publication of Communitas. In this case, it is the notion of body…
From Institutions to the Platform Society
In recent years, reflection on institutions has assumed great prominence in Italian Theory. Roberto Esposito especially, in his three most recent books, has provided a genealogy of institutions, aimed at challenging the prevailing way in which they have been thematized in Western thought. As he sees it, a repressive conception of institutions has dominated in philosophy as well as in sociology and legal studies, which views them as apparatuses th…
Trust and distrust in science
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
Heideggerian Ethics and Kantian Ethics
The purpose of this paper is to show how the interaction between Kantian ethics and some aspects of Heideggerian philosophy can lead to the model of a subject in immediate relationship with others and with his or her community. The positions of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida on this question are presented in contrast with those of Alain Renaut and Emmanuel Lévinas to elucidate their differing ways of interpreting the relationship between Kant…
Beyond the Person
In this review of Persons and Things, recently translated into English and published by Polity Press, we discuss how this text investigates some of the most important themes of Roberto Esposito's thought. Specifically, the book continues the process of constructing an idea of community intended as lack, gift and impropriety that the Italian philosopher has been developing since the publication of Communitas. In this case, it is the notion of body…
Georg Simmel’s Social Aesthetics and the Digital Public Sphere
In this paper I use concepts of Georg Simmel’s social aesthetics to investigate and describe several relational and communicative dynamics that occur in the digital public sphere—where the aesthetic dimension has now assumed great importance. Specifically, Simmel’s work proves to be more suited than Habermas’s for understanding the mechanisms of “typification” and “gamification” found in online interactions between individuals. I further argue th…
Il nuovo sensazionalismo delle «verità veloci»
The old-new epistemology of digital journalism
In journalism studies, the advent of the World Wide Web and the rise of online journalism are generally associated with going beyond the objective, normative paradigm associated with the principles of philosophical and scientific modernity towards a postmodern paradigm centred on subjectivity and relativism. This article offers an alternative reading of the epistemology of online journalism: the fragmentation of audiences into homophilic networks…
Risk Narratives on Immigration During the Covid-19 Crisis in Italy
This work explores how the narrative on immigration changes when society is threatened by “real” risks, i.e., during the COVID-19 health crisis. We compared the frequency and engagement of over 348,684 posts published on Facebook between December 2019 and November 2020 by Italian politicians and news media. We identified two waves of “tangible crisis” assuming that in these two periods the risk stemming from COVID-19 was strongly perceived by the…
Trust and distrust in science
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
From Institutions to the Platform Society
In recent years, reflection on institutions has assumed great prominence in Italian Theory. Roberto Esposito especially, in his three most recent books, has provided a genealogy of institutions, aimed at challenging the prevailing way in which they have been thematized in Western thought. As he sees it, a repressive conception of institutions has dominated in philosophy as well as in sociology and legal studies, which views them as apparatuses th…
The wall between journalism and advertising in times of platformization of the news. Evidence from the Italian case
The aim of this article is to identify the changes that have occurred in the function of the “wall” separating the newsroom from the business department in the years of the digitalization of news production, up to its platformization. To do this, we will focus on the Italian case, which is particularly interesting because it is a context in which journalism is more unlikely than elsewhere to generate revenues by exploiting the potential of digita…
Reaction videos as “interpassive” aesthetic experiences
This article examines reaction videos as a distinctive case of interpassive media consumption in the platform society. Rather than reading them through the dominant frame of interactivity, we argue that reaction videos foreground forms of delegated affective and interpretive labor that trouble conventional understandings of agency in digital environments. By drawing on philosophical accounts of passivity as an ethical and aesthetic openness to ot…
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