L'intenzionalità educante tra immagini digitali del Sé, artefatti computazionali e pratiche di cittadinanza

The contemporary practice of sel"es demands the use of
digital devices that create digital artefacts (Turilli & Floridi,
2009) with a “numerical essence” through the transformation
of the !ow of light into data and information (Adriaans,
2020). Therefore, unlike the classic self-portraits, which are
material artefacts (Franssen et al., 2018), sel"es are constitutively
produced by digital tools and shared within platforms
privately owned for the primary purpose of the self-exhibition
(Han, 2022). The digital structure of sel"es and their fruition
through platforms underlines the relevance of debating their
direct contribution to the expansion of a self-centred symbolic
universe based on technological and social practices. If,
on the one hand, the action of taking a self-portrait demands
that an individual subject re!ects on the construction of his image, aiming at de"ning his personality (identity axis). On
the other hand, sharing self-portraits calls for re!ection on
the intrinsic intentionality of technologies and social practices
related to them within platform societies (social axis). In
addition, current media ecosystems (Morley & Floridi, 2021)
encourage ongoing narrations of the self through social pro-
"les, stories and sel"es that produce an immense amount of
information regarding individual users, which are processed
and transformed into big data by privately owned algorithms
(Barassi, 2020). This entanglement of multiple social and
technological practices (Van Dijck, Poell, De Waal, 2018)
requires innovative pedagogical investigations. A promising
issue to investigate seems to be the role of education in
reshaping the challenging relationship between the design of
digital artefacts (Floridi, 2020) and the intentionality of individual
and collective actors (Schweikard & Schmid, 2020).
Starting from the theses of Stigler (2012), who emphasises
the ambivalence of digital technologies (“pharmaka”), we
will investigate the processual nature of individual identities
in the media ecosystem from the perspective of intentionality
in order to suggest a pedagogical rethink. Moreover, we will
sketch a comprehensive understanding of the social practices
necessary to foster aware citizens (Jónsson & Garces
Rodriguez, 2021) beyond a deterministic vision.