From 2019 to 2024, the Italian press' coverage of the difficult conditions faced by minors in Campania consistently featured the terms "violence," "Camorra," "baby gang," "weapon," "knife," "gun," and "prison." This is according to research conducted by the Campania Region's Polis Foundation, funded by the Ministry of Education (MUR) (as part of the Fund for Economic and Social Research), which also took into account the impact of COVID-19 on students and society.
And precisely in conjunction with the emergency Covid, the research highlighted the weight that the terms 'vulnerability', 'cyberbullying' and 'marginalized' have assumed, which would be attributable to social isolation and the indirect consequences of the pandemic. Another significant fact concerns, in the six years examined, the news reports relating to the word 'school' in the dual meaning of "main garrison for the socialization and education of minors" and, on the other hand, of "space in which socially relevant individual fragilities and criticalities can likely manifest themselves".
And so, even from the terms used, we perceive how the Covid emergency has affected school, social and youth life. The study, in fact, highlights an important fact: if in the two-year period 2019-2020 the associations between terms such as, for example, 'school-violence', 'camorra-violence', 'young-baby gang', 'young-camorra', 'young-prison', "would seem to refer to a journalistic narrative that inevitably inscribes youth distress in a dimension often strongly connected to manifestations of organized crime", starting from the Covid emergency these terms "begin to be contextualized within broader dynamics, in a mix with new, socially significant forms of individual distress and marginalization, including relational".
In short
From 2019 to 2024, in the Italian press's reporting on the difficult conditions faced by minors in Campania, the terms "violence," "camorra," "baby gang," "weapon," "knife," and "gun" were consistently used.
- This is what a research conducted by the Polis Foundation of the Campania Region, funded by the MUR (under the Fund for the…
- And precisely in conjunction with the Covid emergency, research has highlighted the weight that the terms 'vulnerability' and 'cyberbullying' have assumed...
- Another significant fact concerns, in the six years under examination, the news reports relating to the word 'school' in the double…
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From 2019 to 2024, the Italian press' coverage of the difficult conditions faced by minors in Campania consistently featured the terms "violence," "Camorra," and...
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This is what a research conducted by the Polis Foundation of the Campania Region, funded by the MUR (under the Fund for the…
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And precisely in conjunction with the Covid emergency, the research highlighted the weight that the terms 'vulnerability', 'cyberbullying' and 'outcast' have assumed, which would be…
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