By means of a lucid analysis of communication models, Francesco Pira offers a brilliant illustration of the relationship between digitalisation and pre-adolescents as well as adolescents. Studying mutations and metamorphosis of our technological paradigms, Figli delle app (Franco Angeli) focuses on a matter that is crucial in order to understand the social universe surrounding us. A first step to redefine the often-debated dichotomy between the so-called authentic relations and the virtual ones.

Francesco Pira

Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations of the University of Messina.

In conversation with Emilio Pintaldi, journalist.