cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p23
title: La politica del feed. Serialità, affetti ed ecologie discorsive nella società piattaformizzata = The Politics of the Feed: Seriality, Affects and Discursive Ecologies in the Platform Society

description: This article explores the serial nature of digital political communication, arguing that contemporary politics increasingly unfolds as a sequence of episodic, affectively charged and algorithmically distributed content. Moving beyond the aesthetics of seriality, the article identifies four interwoven dimensions - algorithmic, affective, memetic, and infrastructural seriality - through which the logic of the feed organizes visibility, attention, and engagement within platformized public spheres. Drawing on the concept of feed temporality, the paper shows how the rhythm of communication is governed not by linear deliberation but by the kairologic logic of algorithmic media: the right content at the right time to maximize affective resonance. Political participation becomes bingeable, incivility is normalized as a performative style, and memes function as vernacular technologies that encode emotional idioms such as resentment. Against this backdrop, the article outlines the conditions for discursive ecologies capable of interrupting toxic serialities and fostering alternative narrative infrastructures based on care, reflexivity, and symbolic cohabitation. The aim is to reconceptualize visibility not merely as exposure, but as a shared responsibility in the design of democratic communication.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p41
title: Trump, Vance, Musk: vivere in una serie distopica tra immaginari del potere e nuove guerriglie semiotiche = Trump, Vance, Musk: living in a dystopian deries between power imaginaries and new semiotic guerilla

description: This paper analyzes the crisis of globalization through the lens of the conflict between imaginaries, highlighting how deglobalization is not merely the result of economic trends or geopolitical strategies, but primarily the outcome of a semiotic competition shaping politics, technology, and culture. Starting from the collapse of the globalist utopia, the paper explores polarization and schismogenesis as mediological processes, the transition from ideologies to homologies, and the role of digital platforms in constructing new neo-feudal paradigms. Particular attention is devoted to the Trumpian imaginary, the ideological metamorphosis of Silicon Valley, and the semiotic guerrilla practices that fuel postcolonial counter-narratives and participatory cultures. Through the analysis of phenomena such as deepfakes, memes, and media seriality, the study reveals the redefinition of the global order as the outcome of a war between imaginaries, where retrotopias, eternalism, and technological dystopias replace the myth of a progressive utopia. Finally, the paper reflects on the shift from storytelling to storyliving as a pedagogy prompting how to live in a dystopian or retrotopian world of the post-global era.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p57
title: Serialità e comunicazione politica. I Big 5 e l'abbraccio populista = Seriality and Political Communication: The Big Five and the Populist Embrace

description: This paper analyses the relationship between seriality and political communication by focusing on the case of the Californian Ideology and the role of Big Tech in the current neopopulist phase. Building on Barbrook and Cameron's proposal, the Californian Ideology is read as a flexible narrative device, progressively "serialized" within public discourse: a format that combines libertarian countercultures, neoliberalism, technodeterminism and the cult of the entrepreneur, becoming the common sense of Silicon Valley elites. The essay reconstructs the genealogy of this ideological constellation and traces its most recent twists: from the media representation of a progressive, liberal Silicon Valley to the emergence of a tech right and a tecnodestra that intersect Trumpism, sovereigntism and "post-liberal" themes. Through the figures of Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and the "PayPal Mafia", the article shows how the serialization of myths, formats and storytelling - from techno-meritocratic self-help to the Promethean rhetoric of "techno-optimism" - fuels a political imaginary that legitimises the convergence between the techno-industrial complex and right-wing populism. The "populist embrace" between the Big Five and the Trump administration is thus interpreted not as a sudden shift to the right, but as the coherent outcome of long ideological trajectories in which the seriality of technical, managerial and salvific discourses contributes to redefining the field of political communication in the age of digital governmentality.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p77
title: La guerra come saga: Telegram come dispositivo seriale nel conflitto russo-ucraino = War as Saga: Telegram as a Serializing Device in the Russo–Ukrainian Conflict

description: This article examines the role of Telegram in the construction and circulation of narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in Italy, arguing that the platform functions as a serializing device through which the conflict is organized into structured and recurring storylines. Drawing on a socio-semiotic and netnographic approach, the research analyses a corpus of institutional, non-institutional, anti-institutional and counter-institutional channels active in the Italian context between 2022 and 2024, reconstructing the logics through which Telegram organizes, legitimizes and stages antagonistic versions of the war. The analysis shows how the absence of a central visibility algorithm, the cross-platform vocation, the distributed architecture and the fringe status of Telegram foster the emergence of a rhizomatic narrative ecosystem. This ecosystem is characterized by initiatory access to channels, discovery-oriented practices, and a truth regime grounded in opposition to informational hegemony. Within this environment, narrator-performers - milbloggers, OSINT analysts, political influencers, institutional hubs - simultaneously act as characters within the fabula and as authentication devices for the narrative, producing a continuous dramaturgy of the conflict. The study identifies three main forms of seriality: a chronological seriality, anchored in specific theatres of war (Kyiv, Mariupol, Bakhmut); a thematic seriality, based on recurrent storylines ranging from fantasy sagas to spy stories, from conspiratorial frames to accusations of genocide or sabotage; and a mythic-memorial seriality, drawing on symbolic repertoires such as the Second World War, the orc/fantasy imaginary, or Russian patriotic mythology. Finally, the article shows how user experience acquires performative traits: users act as players engaged in quests of search, verification, decoding and counter-narration, turning Telegram into a hybrid environment midway between video games, competitive arena and ritual space. The platform thus not only hosts war narratives but also deeply shapes their serial form, their modes of legitimisation, and the symbolic conflict they enact.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18114908
title: ASTRA Synthetic Benchmark Dataset

description: Here’s a concise, copy-paste-ready Zenodo description you can use (with placeholders for the DOI and links you’ll add after deposit).



ASTRA Synthetic Benchmark Dataset (N=540)

ASTRA (Adaptive Socially-intelligent Team Reasoning Agents) Synthetic Benchmark Dataset is an open, reusable dataset designed to support trace-based evaluation of collaborative programming with socially differentiated AI agents. The dataset mirrors the logging schema and experimental structure of the ASTRA prototype, enabling researchers to develop and benchmark analytics methods for dialogue processes, participation balance in dyads, and programming-task outcomes without releasing sensitive learner data.

What the dataset contains

The dataset provides multi-granularity traces for three conditions:





alone_tutor: one learner with a Tutor agent




pair_tutor: two learners with a Tutor agent




pair_multiagent: two learners with Tutor + Facilitator agents (Facilitator prompts coordination and balanced participation)



It includes:





Turn-level dialogue logs (JSONL) with speaker roles (Student A/B, Tutor, Facilitator), timestamps, and lightweight tags (e.g., explanation/verification markers).




Task-level outcomes (CSV) for 1,440 task episodes (4 per session), including correctness, time-to-correct, retries, and verification proxies (e.g., tests run, edge-case mentions).




Session and participant metadata (CSV) supporting between-subjects comparisons and dyad-level analysis.




Task bank metadata (JSON) for 20 short Python tasks spanning list-processing (sentinel/rainfall-style), debugging, and filter–map–reduce patterns.




Derived metrics (CSV) with precomputed measures (e.g., participation imbalance, reciprocal engagement) plus a README and data dictionary describing schema and assumptions.



Intended use

ASTRA is intended for:





Method development in learning analytics, CS education, and human–AI interaction




Benchmarking models and metrics for collaboration, dialogue, and verification behaviour




Reproducible pipelines aligned to log-operational research questions such as:





interaction dynamics (turn-taking, explanation, verification, peer referencing)




participation-oriented equity proxies (balance and reciprocity in dyads)




performance proxies (correctness, time-to-correct, retries, testing behaviour)





Important note on interpretation

This release is synthetic: it simulates plausible distributions of behaviours consistent with the ASTRA schema and explicit generation assumptions. It should be treated as a benchmark for measurement feasibility and analysis sensitivity, not as observational evidence of real learners or causal effects.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18114909
title: ASTRA Synthetic Benchmark Dataset

description: Here’s a concise, copy-paste-ready Zenodo description you can use (with placeholders for the DOI and links you’ll add after deposit).



ASTRA Synthetic Benchmark Dataset (N=540)

ASTRA (Adaptive Socially-intelligent Team Reasoning Agents) Synthetic Benchmark Dataset is an open, reusable dataset designed to support trace-based evaluation of collaborative programming with socially differentiated AI agents. The dataset mirrors the logging schema and experimental structure of the ASTRA prototype, enabling researchers to develop and benchmark analytics methods for dialogue processes, participation balance in dyads, and programming-task outcomes without releasing sensitive learner data.

What the dataset contains

The dataset provides multi-granularity traces for three conditions:





alone_tutor: one learner with a Tutor agent




pair_tutor: two learners with a Tutor agent




pair_multiagent: two learners with Tutor + Facilitator agents (Facilitator prompts coordination and balanced participation)



It includes:





Turn-level dialogue logs (JSONL) with speaker roles (Student A/B, Tutor, Facilitator), timestamps, and lightweight tags (e.g., explanation/verification markers).




Task-level outcomes (CSV) for 1,440 task episodes (4 per session), including correctness, time-to-correct, retries, and verification proxies (e.g., tests run, edge-case mentions).




Session and participant metadata (CSV) supporting between-subjects comparisons and dyad-level analysis.




Task bank metadata (JSON) for 20 short Python tasks spanning list-processing (sentinel/rainfall-style), debugging, and filter–map–reduce patterns.




Derived metrics (CSV) with precomputed measures (e.g., participation imbalance, reciprocal engagement) plus a README and data dictionary describing schema and assumptions.



Intended use

ASTRA is intended for:





Method development in learning analytics, CS education, and human–AI interaction




Benchmarking models and metrics for collaboration, dialogue, and verification behaviour




Reproducible pipelines aligned to log-operational research questions such as:





interaction dynamics (turn-taking, explanation, verification, peer referencing)




participation-oriented equity proxies (balance and reciprocity in dyads)




performance proxies (correctness, time-to-correct, retries, testing behaviour)





Important note on interpretation

This release is synthetic: it simulates plausible distributions of behaviours consistent with the ASTRA schema and explicit generation assumptions. It should be treated as a benchmark for measurement feasibility and analysis sensitivity, not as observational evidence of real learners or causal effects.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p101
title: Serialità memetica e costruzione dell'immaginario: il meme come dispositivo di world-building politico pop = Memetic Seriality and Political Imaginaries: The Meme as a World-Building Device

description: In recent years, political communication has been reshaped by the interplay between participatory culture, algorithmic logics, and the languages of pop culture. Digital platforms - especially TikTok - have turned political discourse into an iterative and collective practice, where visibility depends on the capacity of content to be reproduced, remixed, and recognized. This article examines how memetic seriality transforms contemporary political communication into an affective world-building device, capable of generating belonging and collective memory through repetition. Adopting a theoretical-interpretative approach supported by an empirical analysis of the case Io sono Giorgia (2019–2025), the study shows how algorithmic reiteration functions as a symbolic infrastructure of the digital public sphere. Memetic seriality thus emerges as a grammar of cultural and affective power: a system in which recursion replaces narration and visibility becomes the primary form of political legitimation.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p121
title: Trump, il re del carnevale e il buffone incoronato = Trump, the King of Carnival and the Crowned Fool

description: This article examines Donald Trump as a hybrid figure who merges two historically intertwined roles: the King and the Fool. Through an interdisciplinary analysis that draws on carnival theory, the history of satire, pop-cultural archetypes, and contemporary political communication, the essay argues that Trump operates simultaneously as sovereign and jester, rendering traditional satirical critique ineffective. His rise is interpreted as the culmination of a cultural shift in which comedy, trolling, and digital meme culture reshape political authority. From medieval misrule to the alt-right's online irony, from the malign clown archetype in American popular culture to the trickster figure theorized by anthropology and psychology, the article traces how laughter has become a potent but ambivalent political force. Trump's performances - part stand-up routine, part authoritarian spectacle - create a closed circuit of ridicule in which he channels mockery directed at him and redirects it toward opponents, neutralizing satire as a tool of dissent. The essay also explores the limits of comic resistance, comparing Trump's self-parodic persona with past attempts to deflate authoritarian power through humor, from Chaplin to Brecht. Ultimately, Trump's dual embodiment of ruler and buffoon reveals a structural vulnerability in democratic discourse: when political reality adopts the logic of carnival, laughter no longer destabilizes power but may instead reinforce it.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p137
title: Serialità e intimità nel podcasting politico contemporaneo = Seriality and intimacy in contemporary political podcasting

description: This article investigates the communicative potential of podcasting as a strategic medium for contemporary political communication, arguing that its distinctive aesthetics - rooted in seriality, intimacy, and personalized listening - make it particularly suited to engaging citizens, especially younger audiences, in political discourse. Drawing on recent shifts in news consumption, including declining trust in legacy media and rising patterns of news avoidance among social-media-native cohorts, the article situates podcasting within an evolving media ecosystem in which audiences increasingly seek proximity, emotional resonance, and narrated forms of political explanation. The first part examines podcast seriality as both a narrative structure and a relational device. Serial formats foster sustained engagement over time, producing forms of temporal rituality and affective continuity that strengthen the relationship between hosts and audiences. The second part explores the aesthetics of intimacy enabled by the medium's technical affordances and stylistic conventions. Through first-person storytelling, informal language, and the embodied presence of the voice, podcasts generate a sense of closeness that can foster empathy, identification, and community-building. Four international case studies - Brexitcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, Bunga Bunga, and The Right Kind of Family - illustrate how podcasting can alternatively function as a space for collective sense-making, ideological mobilization, critical narration, and transnational investigative journalism. These cases demonstrate the medium's versatility as both an interpretive archive and a real-time political intervention. Ultimately, podcasting is presented as a flexible political infrastructure whose relational and affective capacities make it increasingly central to public communication in a hybrid media environment.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p157
title: I'd never seen a person like that. Studio della genesi e della performance dell'hater = "I'd never seen a person like that". A Study of the Genesis and Performance of the Hater

description: This essay intertwines literary analysis and sociological inquiry to trace the emergence of the contemporary hater as a figure shaped by accelerated rhythms, spectacle, and frustration. From Ellis's "American Psycho" to McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men", it reads Bateman and Chigurh as emblematic outcomes of a life-world driven by perpetual novelty and mediated exposure. The hater, born within the logics of late-television formats and algorithmic amplification, embodies a quest for visibility that oscillates between aggression and a confused resistance to social acceleration. Distinct from historical forms of enmity, this hatred arises from spectatorship itself, from the frictions of identity performed under constant public gaze. Through literary icons, the article explores frustration as a structuring force of contemporary life and reflects on the figure of the stranger as a latent presence within modern subjectivity.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p177
title: Il controllo dei corpi. The Handmaid's Tale dalla narrazione seriale all'attivismo = Controlling Bodies: The Handmaid's Tale from Serialized Narrative to Political Activism

description: In every political regime, the body is never merely biological matter; it is a point of intersection between knowledge, norms, and power. The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu, 2017–2025, created by Bruce Miller and based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel) radicalizes this insight by depicting a dystopian society in which sexuality is serially produced as an instrument of governance. In recent years, the series has permeated contemporary political debate, becoming a laboratory of words and images made available to international activism across a wide constellation of gender-related issues. Its public reception confirms the pervasiveness of television seriality in shaping the social imaginary. The red dresses of the Handmaids have become a tool of widespread performance: protests have transformed an image of discipline and subjugation into an emancipatory icon, overturning the logic of power through the very aesthetics of repetition. This essay investigates the relationship between the series and the forms of activism inspired by it, beginning with a theoretical reflection on the disciplining of bodies and moving toward a sociological analysis that reconstructs the trajectory from imaginary oppression to real-world protest, drawing on analytical frameworks developed in the study of the hybridization of politics, spectacle, and popular culture.
DOI: 10.25574/30291
title: Chandra X-ray Observatory ObsId 30291

description: The sounds of feedback: deep and wide imaging of the cool core of the Perseus cluster
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p195
title: Serializzare il fascismo: M. Il figlio del secolo e la narrazione politica nella serialità televisiva = Serializing Fascism: M. Il figlio del secolo and political narration in television seriality

description: In an increasingly media-saturated landscape shaped by the logic and dynamics of seriality (Mittell, 2015), contemporary audiovisual productions play a central role in constructing and disseminating political storytelling (Sgreva, 2012; Sciacca, 2000). M. Il figlio del secolo (2025), the television adaptation of Antonio Scurati's eponymous novel (2018), emerges as a paradigmatic example situated between post-seriality (Brancato, 2011) and what can be defined as pop-platform seriality - a renewed dimension that rethinks and reshapes viewing practices - in which ultra-pop aesthetics (Reynolds, 2011; Bowman, 2007) and serial forms intertwine with the historical and political representation of the rise of fascism. This contribution aims to examine this serial device from a mediological and cultural perspective, exploring how the series participates in the narration of Italian political memory by reworking the past into a communicatively effective and politically charged form. The analysis therefore focuses on three main axes: (1) the construction of Mussolini as a "serial character" positioned between the aestheticization of power and techniques of emotional engagement; (2) the hybridization of historical time and narrative present, expressed through specific stylistic and linguistic choices; (3) the role of digital platforms as new spaces of consumption and cultural politicization. Through the convergent dialogue between theories of seriality, pop culture, and contemporary political communication, the research question moves toward demonstrating how M. Il figlio del secolo operates not only as a historical narrative but also as an act of transmedia political communication, contributing to the redefinition of the memory of fascism and its translation into the languages and formats of popular serial culture.
DOI: 10.1285/i22840753n29p209
title: Highlights e altre riduzioni di complessità.Comunicazione sportiva e comunicazione politica = Highlights and other reductions in complexity. Sports communication and political communication

description: Seriality is not a device of modernity but a dimension of communication that operates on the possibility of recognizing and sharing the world. It identifies the regimes of meaning that enable the experience of the Aristotelian zòon politikòn, and thus also applies to the sphere of politics, to the socially organized networks that connect individuals to collective existence through the practices of the imagination. One of these practices - among the most enduring but also among those that most sensitively incorporate the changes underway in the complex fabric of society, as demonstrated by the phenomenon of fantasy football - is what we call sport, one of the preferred venues of mass culture as well as its outcomes. A privileged space of symbolic repetition, and therefore of ritual, sport translates the ordering demands of myth into industrial modernity, affecting and transforming the cultures of politics and the very logic of mass society.