Connected or Divided? - Bando Strutture

The project goals can be summarised in three main points:

1) Creating interdisciplinary and transnational teaching and learning spaces to critically address the opportunities, implications and externalities related to the digital society.

The promises of technology - speed, connectivity, automation, and democratisation - often come with complex trade-offs. From digital platforms to artificial intelligence, an important question is: Who is included, who is excluded? On what terms and with what outcomes? The project seeks to engage students along with professors and researchers in exploring the evolving landscape of the digital society through the lenses of ethics, inclusion, governance, gender, and global security. In a order of complexity from an UG discussion to a more structured one involving PhD students, key themes include: - Youth digital culture: can digital technology help contrasting educational vulnerability? How digital cultures influence young people’s social interactions and civic participation? - Digital inclusion and inequality: who is connected and who remains on the margins? What are the emerging forms of exclusion and what new forms of participation are being enabled by digital media? - Gender biases: how do digital systems, their infrastructures and the social imaginaries they reflect serve to reinforce or resist structural gender inequalities? - Governing the digital future: what models of governance ensure transparency, accountability, and rights protection?

2) Fostering student’s reflexive thinking by encouraging those with backgrounds in interpreting and translation studies, humanities, and social sciences to analyse digital societies through multiple interdisciplinary lenses.

Students will develop skills to question assumptions, evaluate evidence, and consider diverse societal implications in this field. The discussions will encourage students to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and reflect on power dynamics, inclusion, disinformation and governance in the digital world. These analytical skills are essential for future careers in education, media, policy, research, and international organizations, where nuanced understanding and informed judgment are increasingly valued in addressing digital transformation and its societal impacts.

3) Strengthening the partnership among the institutions involved on the basis of a dialogue on Europe and Asia’s distinct approaches to digital governance, data privacy, education, and ethical norms.

By engaging in cross-regional dialogue, students and scholars can critically compare models of inclusion, regulation, and innovation. This not only deepens understanding and facilitates knowledgeable intercultural translation but also challenges ethnocentric assumptions, fostering more globally informed, culturally sensitive, and adaptable thinking, essential for careers in international or transnational contexts.

Lead Department of the University of Bologna

Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT)

Partner Institution

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE (NUS) – SINGAPORE

KOBE UNIVERSITY – JAPAN

TOYO UNIVERSITY – JAPAN

Other Unibo Departments involved

Department of History and Cultures (DISCI)

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LILEC)

Department of Sociology and Business Law (SDE)

Department of The Arts (DAR)

UNIBO Group and Coordinator

Valentina Cappi (RTT, project coordinator), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Rachele Antonini (PA), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Raffaella Baccolini (PO), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Cinzia Bevitori (PA), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Adriano Ferraresi (PA), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Ira Torresi (PA), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Beatrice Spallaccia (RTD-a), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Motoko Ueyama (PA), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Other staff involved

Prof. Piergiorgio Degli Esposti (PA), Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell’Economia.

Prof. Pierluigi Musarò (PO), Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell’Economia.

Prof.ssa Roberta Paltrinieri (PO), Dipartimento delle Arti.

Prof. Marco Milani (RTD-b), Dipartimento delle Arti.

Prof.ssa Annaclaudia Martini (RTT), Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà.

Prof.ssa Licia Proserpio (RTD-a), Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà.

Prof.ssa Paola Scrolavezza (PO), Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne.

Prof.ssa Veronica De Pieri (RTD-b), Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne.

Dott.ssa Erika Dalan (Research Manager), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Dott.ssa Maria Giovanna Piazza (Responsabile Amministrativo-Gestionale), Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione.

Joshua Ryan Watkins, Senior Lecturer & Deputy Academic Convenor, Study Plans Coordinator & Honours Coordinator, Global Studies Programme, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore.

Ryoko Hayashi, Full Professor, Faculty of Human Communication and Information Science, Kobe University.

Steven H. Green, Deputy Director, Center for Global Education and Exchange and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Toyo University.

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