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Offers a historical review of "the Redeemed," new arrivals to the antifascist movement among Italian intellectuals. The intelligentsia are seen to have moved from an 'inauthentic' life of support for Fascism to one of authenticity following the regime's collapse. A list of many of the Redeemed is provided, noting that they came from across the world of Italian culture. Attention is given to publication that welcomed these intellectuals into its ranks: Giuseppe Bottai's Primato. In addition, efforts of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) to "recuperate" the "ex-Fascists" are discussed. D. Edelman

Employing Jean Baudrillard's concept of integral reality, as articulated within The intelligence of evil or the Lucidity Pact, and linking it with Tim Guest's journalistic/anthropological account of his experiences within Second Life, the article assesses the extent to which, in the era of immersive virtual worlds, Baudrillard retains a critical cultural currency. Expanding upon Baudrillard's identification of virtual reality as a key exemplar of integral reality, this is applied to an analysis of Second Life in the context of the argument that it constitutes a virtual space that offers to individuals a means by which they can "escape" from their given realities by creating their own. However, the article also draws critical attention to the economic dimension of Second Life, and the disruptive, divisive and unstable nature of the virtual world (scamming, terrorism, social, ethnic and gender exclusion, and the high "churn" rate of users), and points to the complexities and problems of uncritically accepting the apparent freedoms immersive virtual spaces ostensibly offer, factors which also raise critical issues for Baudrillard's notion of integral reality.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Digital visual communication theory -- Developing visual literacy skills -- Elements of visual literacy -- Perspective, vision, and culture -- Language of images: signs, symbols, and semiotics -- Written symbols and typography -- Graphic design -- Understanding visual media -- Print media -- The photographic image -- Motion pictures and film -- Television -- Digital media -- Visual communication in cultural contexts -- Emerging visual contexts : virtual reality and digital culture -- Cultural codes and conventions -- Visual imagery and cultural change

In the bureaucratic moments that Michael Herzfeld describes, functionaries of the nation-state deny the contingent points of possible connection with their hapless subjects yet draw on a common symbolic language to do so—thus is the institution reproduced. Such ethnographic moments implicitly rely on other moments, those informed by their expressed lack of total order: illicit activities, games, and competitive verbal performance; cultural intimacy is generated in such occasions of private fallibility. This article explores what happens when a different kind of institution, a virtual world maker, attempts to colonize such disorder to govern legitimately.

New technologies are a key part of social transformations and brings new challenges to the political scene. In this context, in a complex process of globalization, we open a set of reflections on the medium in which information circulates, and how it determines a certain logic in the user's communication. Paralleling, through Second Life virtual world and social networking services, aims to establish a framework for discussing the possibilities of space-network, its mechanisms of democratic engagement and the importance of ethical design of the different network platforms, showing us their communication modes ; En el complejo proceso de globalización, las nuevas tecnologías son una pieza clave de las transformaciones sociales y los nuevos retos que la escena política tiene que afrontar. En este contexto abrimos una serie de reflexiones en torno al medio en que circula la información, y cómo éste determina una lógica en la comunicación del usuario. Poniendo en paralelo el mundo virtual Second Life y los servicios de redes sociales, se pretende establecer un marco de discusión sobre las posibilidades del espacio-red, sus mecanismos de participación democrática y la importancia del diseño ético de las plataformas en que se efectúan los distintos modos de comunicación

New technologies are a key part of social transformations and brings new challenges to the political scene. In this context, in a complex process of globalization, we open a set of reflections on the medium in which information circulates, and how it determines a certain logic in the user's communication. Paralleling, through Second Life virtual world and social networking services, aims to establish a framework for discussing the possibilities of space-network, its mechanisms of democratic engagement and the importance of ethical design of the different network platforms, showing us their communication modes ; En el complejo proceso de globalización, las nuevas tecnologías son una pieza clave de las transformaciones sociales y los nuevos retos que la escena política tiene que afrontar. En este contexto abrimos una serie de reflexiones en torno al medio en que circula la información, y cómo éste determina una lógica en la comunicación del usuario. Poniendo en paralelo el mundo virtual Second Life y los servicios de redes sociales, se pretende establecer un marco de discusión sobre las posibilidades del espacio-red, sus mecanismos de participación democrática y la importancia del diseño ético de las plataformas en que se efectúan los distintos modos de comunicación

New technologies are a key part of social transformations and brings new challenges to the political scene. In this context, in a complex process of globalization, we open a set of reflections on the medium in which information circulates, and how it determines a certain logic in the user's communication. Paralleling, through Second Life virtual world and social networking services, aims to establish a framework for discussing the possibilities of space-network, its mechanisms of democratic engagement and the importance of ethical design of the different network platforms, showing us their communication modes ; En el complejo proceso de globalización, las nuevas tecnologías son una pieza clave de las transformaciones sociales y los nuevos retos que la escena política tiene que afrontar. En este contexto abrimos una serie de reflexiones en torno al medio en que circula la información, y cómo éste determina una lógica en la comunicación del usuario. Poniendo en paralelo el mundo virtual Second Life y los servicios de redes sociales, se pretende establecer un marco de discusión sobre las posibilidades del espacio-red, sus mecanismos de participación democrática y la importancia del diseño ético de las plataformas en que se efectúan los distintos modos de comunicación