The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality / / Robin Pickering-Iazzi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Pickering-Iazzi, Robin,
• MitwirkendeR: Bagnoli, Carla,; Boylan, Amy,; Cayli, Baris,; Maiello, Angela,; Pickering-Iazzi, Robin,; Renga, Dana,; Salvio, Paula M.,; Summerfield, Giovanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the battle between the two groups. The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents. While the mafia’s supporters have used Internet technologies to expand its power, profits, and violence, antimafia citizens employ the same technologies to recreate Italian civil society. The contributors to this volume are experts in diverse fields and offer interdisciplinary studies of antimafia activism and legality in online journalism, Twitter, YouTube, digital storytelling, blogs, music, and photography. These examinations enable readers to understand the grassroots Italian cultural revolution, which makes individuals responsible for promoting justice, freedom, and dignity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Mediating Italian Antimafia Culture: (Cyber)spatialities of Legality -- 1 Structural Modes of Recognition and Virtual Forms of Empowerment: Towards a New Antimafia Culture -- 2 When a Journalist Defies More Than the Mafia: The Legacy of Giuseppe Fava and Italian Antimafia Culture -- 3 “A Taste of Justice”: Digital Media and Libera Terra’s Antimafia Public Pedagogy of Agrarian Dissent -- 4 Democratizing the Memorial Landscape: Casamemoria Vittimemafia’s Calendar of Loss -- 5 Per non dimenticare: Antimafia Digital Storytelling and Reflections -- 6 Remediating the Banda della Magliana: Debating Sympathetic Perpetrators in the Digital Age -- 7 #NuJuornBuon: Aesthetics of Viral Antimafia -- References -- Contributors -- Index