Welcome to Digital Europe!

I am glad to welcome you to Digital Europe!

This section of the Web site is dedicated to a number of actual issues related to digital content.

I myself got interested in digital content information long time ago.

I listed below a selection of  topics I wish to cover in this section.

1. Digital Technologies of the Self. According to the philosopher Michel Foucault, digital technologies “permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct and way of being, so as to transform themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection or immortality”.
2. The Digital Self. Self revealing in the digital world. Digital transparency and Opacity. Living with some degree of digital transparency. What are the benefits and the disadvantages?
3. Trust and Self-revealing risk. Trust in other people: Is it enhanced if participants live with online transparency (e.g. with a richer social media record) or not?
4. Personal Intention in the digital world. Why do people use Social Networks? (e.g. Facebook). What is the intention? How can you define an intention in the digital world?
5. Online Sociability. What is it? How to measure it (can it be measured?).
6. Identity Gathering A new kind of collectors emerged on the Web:  the collectors of digital artifacts and information.
7. Social Networking practices. What are the norms in Social Networks? What is good and what is bad?
8. Digital Publishers. Digital publishing, how does it relate to printed publishing?
9. Web Technologies. What are the Web technologies that can be used to create and manage  digital content?

Hope you`ll enjoy reading this section!

Prof. Roberto V. Zicari,

Editor – Digital Europe.

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