“The paradigm of control” in the perception of the youngest
The project “The paradigm of control” in the perception of the youngest by Giovanna Colautti has successfully concluded. The project was carried out with the collaboration of the Center which published the questionnaire for the collection of relevant data.
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Abstract
On April, 16th 2020 Ms Giovanna Colautti graduated with a distinction in her Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Cooperation at the University of Trieste (Italy) after discussing her thesis on the perception of social control. The comparative analysis started from Foucault’s disciplinary societies, investigating then Deleuze’s control societies, coming to Zuboff’s new theories on the information civilization and surveillance capitalism. Control is invading the web society and social network’s companies exploit data coming from users without causing a stir. The thesis also analysed the outcome with a quota sampling of a survey on the perception of web control, data were collected with the contribution of the International Study and Documentation Centre for Youth Culture (iSDC): participants of the Generation Z (born after 2000) proved to have less perception of online control and feel safer online compared to the others. Where will the progressive incapacity of self-determinating our freedom on the web take us?
A project by Giovanna Colautti
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeo5reKGUKf2rI7MCsCaD2UVplhGuz-OgEo4Yg6JKfjx66izg/viewform
From the end of the 19th Century, period in which studies on the concept of social control started, the forms of control have changed according to the historical period of reference and the social development. Each community is connected to a type of control, being it related to religion, law, culture or education. In the digital era, technology has introduced a new control pattern that is the subject of the most recent studies. With this survey, we want to try to probe the perception of web surveillance in different generational groups. Questions are divided in two parts: from a general introduction on data regarding the usage of tech devices to a personal evaluation on a scale from 1 to 5 of some concepts linked to web control. The results will be the subject of a thesis in Sociology of International Relations by Miss Giovanna Colautti, Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Cooperation at the University of Trieste. The graduating student is supervised in her work by professors Moreno Zago and Fabio Corigliano.
In 2017, Miss Giovanna Colautti completed magna cum laude her Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistic Mediation Studies for International and Diplomatic Organizations with a thesis on “Access universality: A contrastive analysis of the WikiLeaks phenomenon” at CIELS – Gorizia. She is currently attending the Master’s Degree in Diplomacy and International Cooperation at the University of Trieste.
