Friday 24 July 09:50
- 11:20
Hall: 21 - Room 18
Chair and Presenter:
Gatti Flora
Discussant:
Fortuna Procentese
Division: Division 3: Psychology and Societal Development
Modern communities (e.g., neighborhoods, cities) are undergoing deep transformations due to the increasingly pervasive uses of new technologies. Indeed, these technologies allow individuals to experience local places and relationships in a ubiquitous way (e.g., Gatti & Procentese, 2021, 2024). These changes - and the resulting intertwinement of online and offline experiences, relationships, and interactions - are significantly reshaping the social processes and dynamics characterizing them at different levels (individual, interpersonal, intergroup, and collective) as well as the paths towards participatory processes. This produces effects on local social relationships, but also on the opportunities citizens have to experience urban spaces and meanings and engage for them.
In light of this, the present symposium aims to unravel such impacts by addressing the role social media and other community-related technologies play in shaping social and community relationships and processes within contemporary communities. Specifically, the contributions will address the role of modern technologies in shaping relational phenomena, social interactions, and participatory and community building processes.
