Piergiorgio Degli Esposti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piergiorgio Degli Esposti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piergiorgio Degli |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposti |
| SIGNATURE | DEGLI ESPOSTI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8930-0859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bridging globalization and digital society
This article explores George Ritzer's sociological contributions to understanding labour and consumption in the digital age. Central to his analysis are the concepts of McDonaldization and prosumption, which reveal how consumer roles have merged with productive labour across physical and digital realms. Ritzer illustrates how globalization and digital technologies − especially Web 2.0 and artificial intelligence − externalize labour onto users, t…
Prosumer
The origins of the concept of the prosumer can be traced to the work of Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt who in 1972 predicted the gradual transformation of the consumer into a producer as a consequence of electronic technology and the development of simultaneous and instantaneous computing environments, as in the techno‐productive infrastructure of the western world. The term “prosumer” was first introduced by Alvin Toffler in 1980 to refe…
Genere, generi e generazioni. Per una riflessione sociologica sui cambiamenti degli stili di consumo nel mondo globalizzato
curatori innanzitutto la volont di costruire un dialogo interdisciplinare tra studi semiotici e sociologici. La convergenza tra diversi approcci disciplinari su oggetti di studio comuni arricchisce la comprensione dei fenomeni sociali e culturali, in particolare quando ogni studioso chiarisce il suo posizionamento, che si traduce in domande che tipicamente orientano le sue osservazioni, in metodi e prassi di ricerca -e lo affermiamo da una prospe…
The elderly collaborative user in platform societies. A comparative study between India and Italy
cambiamenti degli stili di
Genere, generi, generazioni. Una riflessione sociologica
Obiettivo di questo numero monografico à ̈ quello di utilizzare la chiave del consumo per comprendere piÃ1 a fondo l evoluzione delle dinamiche sociali, nella consapevolezza che, oggi piÃ1 che mai, le pratiche di fruizione possano rappresentare un osservatorio privilegiato attraverso il quale leggere il cambiamento sociale. Tre le parole-chiave al centro della riflessione degli studiosi che hanno contribuito a questo numero di Ocula: genere, gen…
El futuro de las ciudades digitales
El objetivo de esta contribución es definir y analizar el concepto de Smart City a la luz de las evoluciones tecnológicas que las ciudades contemporáneas incorporan progresivamente y de acuerdo a los principales aportes teóricos en el campo sociológico. El impacto de las tecnologías digitales está transformando gradualmente nuestras formas de relacionarnos dentro de varios contextos de referencia, no siendo menos importante la ciudad como lugar d…
The increasing centrality of prosumption in the digital capitalist economy
Confini Ibridi Della Smart City Nel Processo Di Urbanizzazione Della Tecnologia
The objective of this contribution is to define and analyze the smart city concept, in light of the technological evolutions that contemporary cities gradually incorporate and according to the main theoretical contributions in the sociological field. The im-pact of digital technologies is progressively transforming our interactions in several contexts, not least the city as a place of production and consumption. We live more and more hybrid, phys…
Sport and Social Capital
Social relations – as social capital – work by providing and facilitating information for the individuals involved. In the context of voluntary organizations, this could imply that members acquire more knowledge and develop stronger commitments to social and political issues. At a very general level, this simply means that those active in any voluntary organization are richer in social capital than those outside. Sports correspond with social cap…
Cyberculture
Cyberculture is an ever‐changing concept, which is increasingly dominating modern society. This entry aims to shed some light on the contemporary meaning of this omnipresent term, whilst also drawing on some of its roots. The subject of cyberculture is of great interest for sociologists, computer scientists, and scholars in several other fields; the main themes of cyberculture explored in this entry are the creation of virtual communities, commun…
Consumption Rituals
Consumption rituals such as holidays, wedding celebrations, and birthdays are examples of events where there is usually intensive or excessive consumption of goods and other services. These occasions enable people to engage in often formal, serious, and intense consumption and other behaviors. These rituals are different from other mundane consumption‐laden activities as they provide opportunities for individual and social transformations which c…
Cool Hunting
The term “cool hunter” was first used in an article by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (1997). Cool hunting activity can be defined as the research of cutting‐edge trends from observation and prediction of mundane and other consumption behaviors in specific groups of people. The cool hunter researcher first came to light in the 1990s breaking the traditional patterns of market research through the careful observation of the world of consumpti…
Social Media and Its Role in the A rab Spring
The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutionary protests, both violent and nonviolent, that started in Tunisia in 2010. Mass protests took place, giving rise to a domino effect across the Middle East and North Africa that also involved other countries in the Arabian Gulf. A chain reaction followed, the result of the so‐called demonstration effect of democratization, which occurs when, in a sequence of events, a political figure is inspired by the pre…
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Cyberculture
Cyberculture is an ever‐changing concept, which is increasingly dominating modern society. This entry aims to shed some light on the contemporary meaning of this omnipresent term, whilst also drawing on some of its roots. The subject of cyberculture is of great interest for sociologists, computer scientists, and scholars in several other fields; the main themes of cyberculture explored in this entry are the creation of virtual communities, commun…
Consumption Rituals
Consumption rituals such as holidays, wedding celebrations, and birthdays are examples of events where there is usually intensive or excessive consumption of goods and other services. These occasions enable people to engage in often formal, serious, and intense consumption and other behaviors. These rituals are different from other mundane consumption‐laden activities as they provide opportunities for individual and social transformations which c…
Cool Hunting
The term “cool hunter” was first used in an article by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (1997). Cool hunting activity can be defined as the research of cutting‐edge trends from observation and prediction of mundane and other consumption behaviors in specific groups of people. The cool hunter researcher first came to light in the 1990s breaking the traditional patterns of market research through the careful observation of the world of consumpti…
Social Media and Its Role in the A rab Spring
The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutionary protests, both violent and nonviolent, that started in Tunisia in 2010. Mass protests took place, giving rise to a domino effect across the Middle East and North Africa that also involved other countries in the Arabian Gulf. A chain reaction followed, the result of the so‐called demonstration effect of democratization, which occurs when, in a sequence of events, a political figure is inspired by the pre…
Confini Ibridi Della Smart City Nel Processo Di Urbanizzazione Della Tecnologia
The objective of this contribution is to define and analyze the smart city concept, in light of the technological evolutions that contemporary cities gradually incorporate and according to the main theoretical contributions in the sociological field. The im-pact of digital technologies is progressively transforming our interactions in several contexts, not least the city as a place of production and consumption. We live more and more hybrid, phys…
Sport and Social Capital
Social relations – as social capital – work by providing and facilitating information for the individuals involved. In the context of voluntary organizations, this could imply that members acquire more knowledge and develop stronger commitments to social and political issues. At a very general level, this simply means that those active in any voluntary organization are richer in social capital than those outside. Sports correspond with social cap…
El futuro de las ciudades digitales
El objetivo de esta contribución es definir y analizar el concepto de Smart City a la luz de las evoluciones tecnológicas que las ciudades contemporáneas incorporan progresivamente y de acuerdo a los principales aportes teóricos en el campo sociológico. El impacto de las tecnologías digitales está transformando gradualmente nuestras formas de relacionarnos dentro de varios contextos de referencia, no siendo menos importante la ciudad como lugar d…
The increasing centrality of prosumption in the digital capitalist economy
Genere, generi e generazioni. Per una riflessione sociologica sui cambiamenti degli stili di consumo nel mondo globalizzato
curatori innanzitutto la volont di costruire un dialogo interdisciplinare tra studi semiotici e sociologici. La convergenza tra diversi approcci disciplinari su oggetti di studio comuni arricchisce la comprensione dei fenomeni sociali e culturali, in particolare quando ogni studioso chiarisce il suo posizionamento, che si traduce in domande che tipicamente orientano le sue osservazioni, in metodi e prassi di ricerca -e lo affermiamo da una prospe…
The elderly collaborative user in platform societies. A comparative study between India and Italy
cambiamenti degli stili di
Genere, generi, generazioni. Una riflessione sociologica
Obiettivo di questo numero monografico à ̈ quello di utilizzare la chiave del consumo per comprendere piÃ1 a fondo l evoluzione delle dinamiche sociali, nella consapevolezza che, oggi piÃ1 che mai, le pratiche di fruizione possano rappresentare un osservatorio privilegiato attraverso il quale leggere il cambiamento sociale. Tre le parole-chiave al centro della riflessione degli studiosi che hanno contribuito a questo numero di Ocula: genere, gen…
Prosumer
The origins of the concept of the prosumer can be traced to the work of Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt who in 1972 predicted the gradual transformation of the consumer into a producer as a consequence of electronic technology and the development of simultaneous and instantaneous computing environments, as in the techno‐productive infrastructure of the western world. The term “prosumer” was first introduced by Alvin Toffler in 1980 to refe…
Bridging globalization and digital society
This article explores George Ritzer's sociological contributions to understanding labour and consumption in the digital age. Central to his analysis are the concepts of McDonaldization and prosumption, which reveal how consumer roles have merged with productive labour across physical and digital realms. Ritzer illustrates how globalization and digital technologies − especially Web 2.0 and artificial intelligence − externalize labour onto users, t…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Consumption (sociology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)