Italian
When sociality changes space, time, and languages
MESTRE (VE). The community is no longer what it used to be. In just a few years, the ways we build relationships and feel part of a group have changed radically. Squares, public places, and associations — traditional social spaces — have gradually given way to digital spaces where every interaction takes place through a screen. This is the theme of the upcoming lesson of the Training School 2025-2026 “Evolving Community”, organized by Il Circolo Veneto and CGIA di Mestre, scheduled for Thursday, November 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM at the Novotel in Mestre.
Today the internet allows us to overcome physical and temporal limits, to be constantly connected to a potentially unlimited number of contacts. From early adolescence to old age, a significant part of our relational life now takes place online.
But what is this transformation producing? Has it only expanded the possibilities of meeting, or has it changed — or even put at risk — the very nature of sociality?
The contradictions of digital sociality
The new mode of interaction offers unprecedented opportunities, but it also brings numerous risks.
Interactions filtered by social media promote, on one hand, the extreme personalization of relationships; on the other hand, they expose individuals to immediate consent, the pressure of likes, polarization, and the rapid spread of superficial content, fake news, and messages crafted as “click-bait.”
The “fracture” is no longer just between analog and digital generations: a new boundary is emerging, that between those who will be able to govern artificial intelligence as a social tool and those who will be excluded from it.
A lesson to understand change
These topics will be at the center of the next lesson of the 2025-2026 Training School “Evolving Community”, Thursday, November 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM at the Novotel in Mestre.
The meeting will feature:
- Enzo Risso, scientific director of IPSOS Italy and lecturer in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University La Sapienza in Rome;
- Fabrizio Nonis, gourmet butcher, journalist, and television producer known as “El Bekér”.
In conversation with them will be Marta De Vivo, a journalist and communicator known on social media as “Martaforfew”, while the introduction will be entrusted to Mattia Esposito, coordinator of the Training School.
Why talk about it today
Understanding how communities are changing means understanding the future of our cities, the relationships between people, and the language with which we build belonging and identity.
In an age where everything is connected, the challenge is to truly stay in relationship.
