ECHO. RIVISTA INTERDISCIPLINARE DI COMUNICAZIONE. LINGUAGGI, CULTURE, SOCIETA'

The spread of digital technologies and the constant increase of computing power are radically changing every aspect of both public and private life. Indeed, the possession and accumulation of data online is giving birth to unprecedented narrative forms, which are deterritorialized (though still situated within the same "old" territories of Western hegemony?) in as much as they are stored by almost unidentified subjects. All of this is expected to guarantee a worldly turn allowing a supposedly real dialogue. As a matter of fact, the same digital network is contributing to the formation of a new "subject/thought" alien as it is to the classic canons into which it has always been forged. It is free of expressing itself; it lacks reverence for consolidate hierarchies; it is capable to deepen its own information and communicative abilities, following a contest that is faster and faster, spatially reduced in terms of self-restraint, verification and diversification of sources. Definitely, all the data produced by the different relationships across the network facilitate the profiling and refinement of new communication techniques/narratives, ensuing new frontiers, also political ones - either through persuasion and conditioning - new semiologies, new linguistics, new audiovisual languages, new literatures: new forms of narration.