Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

"This book was born out of an inscription seen on a wall in Rome: TURN OFF FACEBOOK AND KISS. Fantastic synthesis of a nonconformist thought, an idea hung like a frame amidst the smoke of escapes, an abusive window, a challenge to the daily trudging of millions of ants, between home and office, between gym and malls, obliged to connect and be connected without requital, without thought, without doubt..." It is with these words that Paolo Crepet introduces his impassioned and unprejudiced analysis of the condition of the individual and interpersonal relationships in the digital and interconnected world in which we all live today, but from which the younger generations seem to be literally kidnapped. But what will a child who has only ever communicated through a device be like as an adult? What changes will intervene in his way of experiencing feelings and social relations, in his empathic capacity? In answering these crucial and increasingly pressing questions that nag in particular parents, teachers and educators of so-called "digital natives" , Crepet avoids apocalyptic tones and the all too easy demonization of the dark side present in all forms of progress, because "this book is not an indictment, it is not against anything. It is an attempt to point out contradictions and side effects of a new world that presents itself not only as the latest and most astounding industrial revolution-the digital revolution-but, above all, as an astounding and unexpected anthropological mutation."

Publication date: 06.09.2016
Publisher: Mondadori