Vetrinizzazione sociale 2.0 nella società spettacolarizzata : dalla celebrificazione dell’immagine alla dipendenza digitale

Abstract

Abstract: This work aims to identify some mechanisms of online socialisation among ado-lescents and to outline the cognitive processes involved in the formalisation of antisocial and deviant behaviours. Through a study of digital communities, communication style and virtual relationships, significant considerations can be initiated regarding understanding the phenomena of perceptive construction and neutralisation arising from the violent cul-ture on the internet, by assessing the possible consequence of the formation of groups and communities on the web. Through a conception of cyberspace as a laboratory to experiment with different identities, the inhibitory factors present in personal relationships tend to be reduced in young Internet users, and the social, perceptual and cognitive modalities involved in implementing violent acts are strongly influenced by the perceived protection of an anonymisation and encryp-tion control system. The construction of a social identity through which young people de-velop and adapt virtual behavioural models of group violence, often acquiescent and struc-tured within a hierarchical and apical organization and structure, could contribute to the establishment of a consolidated and structured violent cultural cognitive heritage, with pos-sible criminal behavioural excesses.