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The book Skyping the Family: Interpersonal Video Communication and Domestic Life (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019) focuses on an in-depth study into the reasons for, the use of, and the role of video calling within social interactions, especially within the family. It delves deeply into the everyday usage of video calling, in this case particularly the…

The whole world is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and in many countries the health crisis is still a threat. In countries where schools are still closed, many students are left in “educational poverty” without the means to access social distance learning. In the northern hemisphere, the end of summer vacation this year was marked…

Orientaserie, available online since few months, is a new TV recommendation and orientation website, which helps us to choose in the great sea of TV series. Orientaserie is particularly addressed to parents and educators. It wants to be an agile, documented and reliable consultation tool on a world in which teenagers spend a good part…

It has become customary to deny any difference - biological or anthropological - between men and women. And this paradoxically occurs in a culture where "open-minded" people say that being different implies "wealth," "an opportunity to compare and contrast," "an opportunity for exchange and growth." So why deny the differences between men and women? What…

How many times have you wanted to watch a film with your family and uncertain which one to choose? Of course, deciding one that fits everybody’s taste is not an easy task, but some stories make everyone agree. For example, the film Jojo The Rabbit, shown in theatres less than a year ago, and now…

It's a classic summer Sunday morning. To relax, you decide to go and get some "fresh" air in the central park of your city. Looking around, you witness a peculiar scene: a father and a mother sitting on the bench, each with their smartphone in their hands and their child standing next to them bouncing…

If there is one thing that all men desire, it’s happiness. We all try to do what we think will lead us to live better, although in different ways. But the road to happiness resembles an obstacle course; it is full of pitfalls: occasionally something or someone pops up that offers to lead us directly…