Tag: Vincenzo Del Gaudio

Black Mirror

The mini-cycle of seminars Lo specchio scuro. Black Mirror e la civiltà digitale [Black Mirror and Digital Civilization], organized by the course in Television and New Media and by the Study Center “Media Culture Society” of the Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Salerno, was held on March 24 and 26.
The seminar starts from the book I riflessi di Black Mirror [The reflections of Black Mirror] (Rogas, 2018), edited by Mario Tirino and Antonio Tramontana.
The event was attended by Massimiliano Locanto, Gino Frezza, Antonella Mascio, Simona Castellano, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Adolfo Fattori, Mario Tirino, Lorenzo Di Paola.
Scientific direction by Mario Tirino.

You can view the first seminar (March 24) here:

Here the second seminar (March 26):

di mario.tirino

Black Athletes Matter

Today (h. 14.30/18) I gave the talk Black Athletes Matter. Sport, devianza e rappresentazioni mediali degli atleti afroamericani [Black Athletes Matter. Sport, deviance and media representations of African American athletes], at the third and last meeting of the seminar Filmologia, Comunicazione e Sociologia dello Sport [Filmology, Communication and Sociology of Sport], whose theme was Devianza e integrazione [Deviance and Integration]. I talked with Matteo Cardinali (University of Perugia), Isabella Corvino (University of Perugia), Vincenzo Del Gaudio (University of Salerno), Eduardo Lubrano (journalist), Giuseppe Albeggiani (manager).
The seminar was organized by the University of Perugia (Department of Medicine, Degree Course in Science and Techniques of Motor Activity).
It was an excellent opportunity to describe how, until the 1980s and 1990s, American White society, in many cases, followed strategies of medial construction of deviance for black professional athletes. In addition, I analyzed the film He Got Game (1998) as an attempt to revise dominant cultural discourses regarding the deviance of black athletes: rather than focusing on reinforcing racial stereotypes associated with individual bias, director Spike Lee highlights the social and economic roots of deviant behavior.

di mario.tirino