Author's name: Luciana Taddei
University Name: Università degli Studi di Genova Contact address: Piazza Lido di Pegli 4 – 16156, Genova E-mail: taddei.luciana@gmail.com
Paper title: Building a community in virtual spaces to create real practices. The case of Italo-Argentinian.
Abstract
Argentine culture has significant connections to Italian culture because the two countries have a long history of migration.
Today, thanks to ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies, italo-argentinians can have a continuos interaction that let them construct and re-construct, day by day, their hybrid identity. Glocalization has permit to create this big community, that form relationships and develop interactions in virtual spaces but act in real spaces.
Thanks to ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies, the italo-argentinian community can define his own culture and identity; then each local association can promote conference, events and reunions in real spaces. The virtual spaces created by the new types of communication are context in which italo-argentinians can define their hybrid culture, talking about language, cuisine, history, dance, music, etc. and this is fundamental for the cretion of a community that can act in urban spaces.
Build a community in a virtual space is the first step to create self-organised and powerful groups, able to be influential in politic and economy at local level.
The study examine how italo-argentinians define their hybrid culture and construct their own identity both in virtual and in physical contexts, and the ways in which they act in local spaces. The research try to understand if the construction of a strong community with the help of virtual tools is useful to create more partecipation in urban spaces.
Through virtual ethnography it will be possible to understand if ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies help the members of a community to form strenght ties, and if they are useful to the partecipation in real spaces.
