Education and Technologies: Between New Emergencies and New Opportunities

Abstract

The web represents a unique opportunity for all of us in terms of knowledge, but this sharing process of culture and knowledge must not become an instrument of spreading disinformation or critical behaviors that could become deviances. Social media are the place of democratization of the private, self-presentation, self-narration, and mass self-communication, where the projection that each one wants to give of himself to others is realized, and also the place par excellence where others through their satisfaction redefine us. It is a sort of mass display that can lead to dangerous deviations, an example of all the challenges. The latest evidence collected during the online survey: “My life in the time of Covid-19”, conducted on a sample of 1,858 Italian adolescents in the period from April to May 2020, broadly confirm the above thesis. The time of use of technologies now occupies an important part of their daily life, over 5 hours for 49% of respondents, even at the expense of other activities such as sports. Young people tend to isolate themselves from the family environment. Over 60% of them said that they experience moments of fear and miss their friends very much. It has also been noted that fake profiles are proliferating even among adolescents, demonstrating how in the liquid-modern era deception has become central in the processes of understanding reality, and the distinction between true and false is no longer perceived.