“Viva e moia”: riflessioni pedagogiche inattuali su gogna mediatica e pensiero critico

Abstract

Abstract – If the education system is connected to all social and historical dynamics, it is at least rash to single out social and digital platforms as solely responsible for the violence, rudeness and vulgarity with which our society is imbued. Assuming a critical self-consciousness would be the first step to curb violence, because the freedom of the subject marks the possibility and ability to adhere to moral, civil and political values. In order to cultivate a responsible conscience that is concerned with interiority and individuality, it would be appropriate to reiterate that digital competence is not merely technological, but involves the social and relational, cognitive and moral dimensions. By critically analysing, in an interdisciplinary manner, certain social dynamics that, over time, have recorded ‘victims’ of the fame and fury of ‘the people’, one could nurture a pedagogical reflection that, by questioning ‘the past with the utmost strength of the present’, succeeds in traversing it in order to push it out of itself.