Conference presentations:
IMAGO MIGRANTIS: REPRESENTATION OF MIGRANTS IN ITALIAN TEXTBOOKS AND EUROPEAN ONLINE MEDIA
Imago migrants is a research on the representation of migrants and migrations in European online newspapers (Italy, Greece, France and the United Kingdom) and in the history and geography textbooks of Italian high schools that was conducted in 2016-2018, as a continuation of the previous international project “Images of migrants in the manuels scolaires en Méditerranée”. The research aims to investigate the characterization of the discourse on migrants and migration on these two types of "media" through the analysis of texts, images and videos.
The main results have converged in the monograph "Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age", published in May 2019 by CNR-IRPPS e-publishing, which also includes contributions from other research institutes and universities that have addressed the theme of the representation of migrants focusing on other types of media (print media, migrant diaries, innovative teaching materials, comments from readers of online newspapers)
• "The gender issue in migrant representation: a case study on Italian school textbooks and online newspapers”, V. Tudisca and A. Valente, First International Conference Democratic School. Education and post-democracy, 6-8 June 2019, Cagliari
• "The representation of migrants in the multimedia context of European online newspapers”, V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia, MG Caruso, L. Cerbara, A. Valente, Rethinking forced migration. Theories, practices, languages and representations ", fourth annual conference of Escapes, Parma, 8-9 June 2017
• "The role of textbooks in science education: a case study on human migrations", A. Valente, T. Castellani, S. Caravita, international workshop SCIENCE EDUCATION AND GUIDANCE IN SCHOOLS: THE WAY FORWARD promoted by the ACARISS project, 21-22 October 2013, Florence
• 'Le migrant dans les manuels italiens d'histoire et de géographie: the impact des images, le rôle des styles, l'ambiguïté des valeurs', by A. Valente, T. Castellani, G. Vitali, S. Caravita, in 'Migrants et migrations dans les manuels scolaires en Méditerranée', edited by B. Maurer, M. Verdelhan and A. Denimal, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2016;
• 'Le migrant dans les manuels italiens d'histoire et de géographie: le migrant, la femme, la mémoire', by A. Valente, T. Castellani, G. Vitali, S. Caravita, in 'Migrants et migrations dans les manuels scolaires en Méditerranée ', edited by B. Maurer, M. Verdelhan and A. Denimal, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2016;
• 'Representation of migrants in Italian history and geography textbooks', by A. Valente, T. Castellani, S. Caravita, in IRPPS Working Paper n. 59, 2014;
• 'The role of textbooks in science education: a case study on human migrations', by A. Valente, T. Castellani, S. Caravita, in 'Science Education and guidance in schools: the way forward', edited by A. Raschi, A. Di Fabio and L. Sebastiani, Pisa, ETS Editions, 2013.
Research products:
• "Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age", edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, 2019, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978-88- 98822-13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
The volume was created on the initiative of the Social Studies group on Science, Education, Communication of the Research Institute on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council (CNR IRPPS) to bring together different voices and points of view of researchers on the subject of representation of migrants and migration by certain types of "media": online and printed newspapers from various European countries, school textbooks, co-produced teaching materials, diaries. If these studies place the accent from time to time on different aspects - narrative frames, politics, language, stereotypes, feelings - what unites them is the desire to add a piece to the understanding of the complex relationship between Italy - and Europe that is taking shape - and the issue of migrations from outside Europe; because what is at stake, in the way we represent migrants, is the construction of our own identity.
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• “Migrations and media, material for reflection”, A. Valente, 2019, in Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age, edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978-88-98822-13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
• "Objectives and contents of the volume", V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, 2019, in Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age, edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978-88-98822-13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
• "Textbooks among cultural products", A. Valente, 2019, in Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age, edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, Rome : CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978-88-98822-13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
• "Representation of migrants in European online newspapers", MG Caruso, L. Cerbara, A. Pelliccia, V. Tudisca, A. Valente, V. Calcagno, V. Formentini, L. Piromalli, V. Ronca, M. Santurro, L. Zampino, 2019, in Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age, edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978- 88-98822-13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
• "Migrations in the texts of Italian history and geography manuals", A. Valente, V. Tudisca V. Calcagno, V. Formentini, L. Piromalli, V. Ronca, M. Santurro, L. Zampino, S. Caravita, 2019, in Imago migrantis: migrants at the gates of Europe in the media age, edited by V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia and A. Valente, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online 978-88-98822- 13-3, ISBN print 978-88-98822-14-0, DOI 10.14600 / 978-88-98822-13-3
• "The representation of migrants in European online newspapers: a pilot analysis", V. Tudisca, A. Pelliccia, MG Caruso, L. Cerbara, A. Valente, 2017, in Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi, C. Bonifazi, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online: 978-88-98822-12-6
• "Iconography of migrations in textbooks", A. Valente, V. Tudisca, V. Calcagno, L. Piromalli, V. Ronca, M. Santurro, L. Zampino, S. Caravita, 2017, in Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi, C. Bonifazi, Rome: CNR-IRPPS e-Publishing, ISBN online: 978-88-98822-12-6
• "The Evacuation of the Idomeni Refugee Camp: A Case of Discursive and Iconographical Representation on Digital Media“, A. Pelliccia, 2019, Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 5: 3, pp. 185-206