84° Mercoledì di Nexa - Words of digital wisdom

Roberto Casati (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure - Parigi): In the last two years, after the publication of a book on "digital colonialism", I started collecting data about ways of describing activities, objects and behaviors gathering around "online life" and about the way we should conceive of pre-digital life. I'll present a list of those descriptions, in order to suggest some corresponding redescriptions that may help us in making fine-grained decisions about the digital migration. Digital natives are actually digitally coerced children, multitasking is actually task-switching, and holidays should not turn into working from picturesque places.

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