Category Archives: Media education

The term “telecommuting” dates back to 1973 when it was coined by NASA engineer Jack Nilles during the oil crisis. “Tele-schooling,” better known as “distance learning,” was a necessary change that emerged in the midst of the pandemic, providing somehow continuity for the 2019-2020 academic year—largely thanks to technology. In other words, both remote working…

Have you ever posted a photo, a poem, even a simple thought on a social network and then found yourself checking – perhaps even compulsively – if you were getting any notifications for new comments and likes? Who doesn't “feel better” when a photo gets 70, 80, 100 likes or, on the contrary, feel a…

Today, politics and culture are often not left up to “men in suits” alone. Have you ever heard of influencers? They are singers, actors, societies’ “VIPs”: characters who, from their soap boxes and via their profiles, influence the masses, sensitize and sway public opinion in a particular direction. Their main weapon? Social networks. Their preferred…

2020 and 2021 will not only be remembered as the years of the global pandemic, but also as the years we gave greater importance to the family in times of crisis. In regard to our health, staying in our "bubbles" is helping to protect us from the virus. Economically, the family unit is that community…

Perhaps it is because two of my daughters are part of the generation sadly renamed "the Covid Generation," made up of adolescents and pre-adolescents, that I am particularly sensitive to the discomfort that young people are experiencing at this time. Certainly there are and have been situations similar or worse than this. Consider those who…

In a world “without fathers” – in which fatherhood seems to be increasingly more fluid and difficult to exercise – Pope Francis proposes looking at a father figure who today’s society greatly needs. It is well-known that the Pope announced (on December 8th, 2020) that 2021 will be a special year dedicated to St. Joseph,…

Among the consequences that Covid-19 brought with it over the last year has been a significant increase in the use of pornographic content. A research carried out by the institute Eumetra and Pornhub, a well-known pornographic site, have demonstrated this increase, according to the news agency Adnkronos. As for the country where I live, Italy,…

We noticed that among the most read articles of 2020 there is one that outlines ten tips on how to improve communication within the family. Such great interest in this article might be due to the fact that we have found ourselves home-bound for the past year in the midst of a global health crisis.…

It's been over a year now that we've maintained relationships "filtered" by screens – and not just because we choose to do so. I've noticed how the tools that often help us communicate (and we have to admit that they really do help us communicate in this day and age!) sometimes make us fall victim…

Just watch the news or read the front pages of newspapers and you’ll soon realize how violence, even in societies that we are used to calling "evolved,” is still very prevalent in every age group and in every social stratum. But how can we stop the phenomenon of violence? There would be a lot to…