No. 1 (2024): Reputation in the Digital Age: Representations and Practices of the Self between Social Capital and Relational Good

The special issue entitled ‘Reputation in the Digital Age: Representations and Practices of the Self between Social Capital and Relational Good’ of this issue of Quaderni di Comunità focuses on studies and research, theoretical and empirical, at the micro, meso and macro levels, conducted on web reputation, with the aim of investigating the impact of digital culture and social media on the processes of identity construction and the production of the self through interconnection in the network. The contributions of the authors of this issue highlight the influence of the digitalisation of culture on the realisation of online reputation, through case studies and empirical investigation experiences, based on the listening of the web. The overall work is placed in the field of Media Education, thanks to the presence of reflections on the impacts of the social, cultural and digital capital of socialisation agencies in the development of media education paths within the educational, formal and informal contexts, aimed at publicising the risks due to the improper use of the digital and the impacts on the processes of identity affirmation, as well as in the different phases of personal growth.