Digital Citizenship and Civic Activism
      
  
                  A.Y. 2025/2026
      
      
  
Learning objectives
        
            
                  The aim of the course is to provide the cognitive, methodological and technological tools to actively and consciously participate in the process of mutual influence between citizenship and information technologies, taking into account the institutional (top-down) and the spontaneous or ""self-organized"" point of view (bottom -up).
      
      
  
  Expected learning outcomes
        
            
                  The aim of the course is to create the ability of using the technological tools for the participation to the civil life in a critical and conscious way.
      
      
  
  Lesson period: First four month period
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
    
            Single session
Responsible
              
          Lesson period
              First four month period
          
Course syllabus
The Rainbow of Digital Citizenship (and Technocivism)
- L-net, the Net (relativity, Locard, datagate, re-designing the net)
- L-srv, services (relativity, Locard, inclusivity, slashdot-effect, lock-in)
- L-acc, public services (Net Neutrality, Digital Divide)
- L-edu, education (stolen computing agency, national plans, Free Software, right to repair)
- L-tra, opendata and transparency (formats, classification, civic responsibility, scraping, webstacles)
- L-sha, sharing (crowdsourcing)
- L-con, consultation (participatory budgeting, referendums)
- L-dem, democracy (digital vote, liquid delegation, collaborative legiferation)
- L-net, the Net (relativity, Locard, datagate, re-designing the net)
- L-srv, services (relativity, Locard, inclusivity, slashdot-effect, lock-in)
- L-acc, public services (Net Neutrality, Digital Divide)
- L-edu, education (stolen computing agency, national plans, Free Software, right to repair)
- L-tra, opendata and transparency (formats, classification, civic responsibility, scraping, webstacles)
- L-sha, sharing (crowdsourcing)
- L-con, consultation (participatory budgeting, referendums)
- L-dem, democracy (digital vote, liquid delegation, collaborative legiferation)
Prerequisites for admission
networks, programming languages and operating systems
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson + laboratory
Teaching Resources
1) Cittadinanza Digitale e Tecnocivismo
Autori: Andrea Trentini, Giovanni Biscuolo, Andrea Rossi
Editore: Ledizioni
Collana: Copyleft Italia
Formato: Brossura, 361 p. - PDF in Open Access (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pubblicato in: novembre 2020
ISBN cartaceo: 9788855261609
https://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/cittadinanza-digitale-tecnocivismo
2) Dal Tecnocivismo alla Cittadinanza Digitale
Autori: Fiorella De Cindio, Andrea Trentini
Editore: Themis
Formato: Brossura, 456 p. - PDF in Open Access (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pubblicato in: 2024
ISBN cartaceo: 9788896069660
https://edizionithemis.it/catalogo/digitale-e-societa/dal-tecnocivismo-alla-cittadinanza-digitale
Autori: Andrea Trentini, Giovanni Biscuolo, Andrea Rossi
Editore: Ledizioni
Collana: Copyleft Italia
Formato: Brossura, 361 p. - PDF in Open Access (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pubblicato in: novembre 2020
ISBN cartaceo: 9788855261609
https://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/cittadinanza-digitale-tecnocivismo
2) Dal Tecnocivismo alla Cittadinanza Digitale
Autori: Fiorella De Cindio, Andrea Trentini
Editore: Themis
Formato: Brossura, 456 p. - PDF in Open Access (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pubblicato in: 2024
ISBN cartaceo: 9788896069660
https://edizionithemis.it/catalogo/digitale-e-societa/dal-tecnocivismo-alla-cittadinanza-digitale
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam
Professor(s)
    
            Reception:
to schedule a meeting please send an email
room 4007, via Celoria 18, MI