{"id":256993,"date":"2026-01-11T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.uniurb.it\/corit\/?p=256993"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:13:19","slug":"margins-in-motion-platformization-polarization-and-the-new-public-sphere-rome-15-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.uniurb.it\/corit\/margins-in-motion-platformization-polarization-and-the-new-public-sphere-rome-15-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Margins in Motion: Platformization, Polarization, and the New Public Sphere – Rome, 15 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of the PRIN CoRiT project will be presented and discussed at this event.<\/p>\n

Margins in Motion: Platformization, Polarization, and the New Public Sphere<\/b><\/p>\n

15 January 2026\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Aula Oriana, via Salaria 113 Roma<\/b><\/p>\n

This seminar explores how the \u201cmargins\u201d of public discourse \u2013 fringe platforms, peripheral communities, low-visibility spaces \u2013 have become key sites where political imaginaries, narratives and styles are tested, amplified and sometimes normalized. Rather than treating the fringe as a residual \u201coutside\u201d to be integrated into an already given center, the seminar asks how platformization and algorithmic mediation continuously redraw the boundaries between margins and center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing on the research developed within the PRIN PNRR project \u201cCountering Online Radicalization and incivility in ITaly: from fringe to mainstream – CORIT\u201d on fringe democracy, the sessions will unpack the multiple ways in which marginal actors and spaces shape the mainstream: from the circulation of disinformation and affective polarization to new forms of digital activism, counter-publics and experimental uses of AI in political communication. The aim is to understand the fringe not only as a risk factor for democratic erosion, but also as a laboratory where alternative practices of participation, critique and care can emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margins in Motion: Empirical Insights from the CoRiT Project on Fringe Democracy<\/b>
\n<\/span>9:00-10:15<\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Alberto Marinelli – <\/span>Sapienza University of Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

Giovanni Boccia Artieri – University of Urbino Carlo Bo
\n<\/span>Sara Bentivegna – <\/span>Sapienza University of Rome
\n<\/span>Rossella Rega – University of Siena
\n<\/span>Stefano Brilli – University of Urbino Carlo Bo
\n<\/span>Elisabetta Zurovac – University of Urbino Carlo Bo<\/span><\/p>\n

Discussion<\/p>\n

Roundtable: <\/b>Margins in Motion: Platformization, Polarization, and the New Public Sphere<\/b>
\n<\/span>10:30-12:30<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction: Giovanni Boccia Artieri – University of Urbino Carlo Bo
\n<\/span>Discussants: Sara Bentivegna \u2013 Sapienza University of Rome, Rossella Rega – University of Siena\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n