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Smart Society: A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living book cover

1st Edition

Smart Society A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

By Roberta Iannone, Romina Gurashi, Ilaria Iannuzzi, Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe, Melissa Sessa Copyright 2020
106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge
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Increasingly, we hear of ‘smart’ cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an ‘intelligent’ connection with the ‘network society’. This book addresses the issues raised by the emergence of ‘smart’ dimensions and... Read more

1 Smart society: The critical sense of a world strategy



ROBERTA IANNONE



2 Smart politics: The political dimension of ‘smartness’



GIOVANNI DE GHANTUZ CUBBE



3 Smart people and prosumers: The individual challenge to the Fourth Industrial Revolution



ROMINA GURASHI



4 Smart community: A new way of being together?



ILARIA IANNUZZI



5 Home smart home: A sociology of living in the age of reflective materialism



MELISSA SESSA



6 From theory to empiricism: The challenge to the future of the Sapienza University at Solar Decathlon Middle East



ROMINA GURASHI, ILARIA IANNUZZI AND MELISSA SESSA

Biography



Roberta Iannone is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is author of The social sense of the human experience: Thinking about Vom Menschen of Werner Sombart, and Il capitale sociale. Origine, significati e funzioni (2006).



Romina Gurashi is Subject Expert in Sociology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is Managing Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Administration Science. Studies in Theory and Social Research, the author of Pathways of Peace: Philosophy and Sociology of Peace and Nonviolence (2018) and the co-author of From Intractability to Pacification: A Federal perspective for the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict (2017).



Ilaria Iannuzzi is completing her doctoral studies in the Department of Political Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of La fiducia paga. Quando le relazioni generano valore (Trust pays. When relationships generate value) and of several articles in scientific journals. She is an accredited Professional by Italy-Usa Foundation.



Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe is Ph.D Student and Research Associate at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden, Germany. His research interests focus on contemporary nationalism, migration and European radical right parties as well as on structural and conceptual changes of democracy and political institutions in Europe.　



Melissa Sessa is the best-graduated student of July 2017 in Administration and Organization Sciences. She is currently completing a master’s degree in Political Science. She is the winner of the prestigious prize for a dissertation thesis, "Vincenzo Dona", with her work on La smart home nella sua dimensione sociale (The smart home in its social dimension).

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