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In this work there is an analysis based on historical inauthentic Information Operations (IOs) detected by Twitter and removed from the social, used as a ground truth, to study patterns of inauthentic and harmful coordination and to compare them with a dataset of Twitter messages recovered using the Twitter APIs and based on the most used hashtags in the selected IOs. These can be considered authentic and harmless, because surely they don't come from users involved in the campaign, banned by Twitter. From the archive, the selected IOs come from Honduras and United Arab Emirates (UAE), which used different information strategies. The first was focused only on political aspects and is based on retweets; the second concerned both political and religious contents and exploited classic conversations. First of all highly coordinated communities (HCCs) are extracted from the whole datasets, composed by the union of authentic and inauthentic tweets, to analyze indexes and behaviours and to see if communities of banned users are isolated from the others. Then, some classifiers are applied to each single user of the datasets. The final purpose is to try to predict through supervised machine learning if users are involved in an inauthentic information operation or not, with high precision score.

The aim of this article is to illustrate some of the mechanisms existing in political discourse which employ emotions and humor as a persuasive means. The study is based on authentic texts produced by Silvio Berlusconi. The importance of emotions and humor in political speech is viewed in the light of changes taking place in public communication due to the development of mass media and Internet, leading to, among others, ever more frequent use of the comical aspect of communication as a method of gaining and maintaining political power. That is why the use of emotions and humor in Berlusconi's speech is analyzed as a strategic choice and a powerful instrument of political struggle. The article highlights the role of emotions and humor in creating a positive self-image of the politician. ; The aim of this article is to illustrate some of the mechanisms existing in political discourse which employ emotions and humor as a persuasive means. The study is based on authentic texts produced by Silvio Berlusconi. The importance of emotions and humor in political speech is viewed in the light of changes taking place in public communication due to the development of mass media and Internet, leading to, among others, ever more frequent use of the comical aspect of communication as a method of gaining and maintaining political power. That is why the use of emotions and humor in Berlusconi's speech is analyzed as a strategic choice and a powerful instrument of political struggle. The article highlights the role of emotions and humor in creating a positive self-image of the politician.

Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze, tecnologie e biotecnologie per la sostenibilità ; La VAS, nell'intenzione del legislatore europeo, è stata prevista come uno strumento di supporto al processo decisionale e in quanto tale è applicabile ad una molteplicità di piani e programmi al fine del loro più efficace orientamento alla sostenibilità ambientale. La messa a punto del processo di valutazione ambientale strategica consente di giovare delle ricadute positive che il piano o programma avrà su quel determinato territorio. L'obiettivo della ricerca è quello di far comprendere quale importanza assuma il processo di valutazione ambientale strategica nell'indirizzare alla sostenibilità ambientale un piano o un programma, contrariamente al modo in cui è stata in molti casi intesa, spesso semplicemente come mero adempimento burocratico/amministrativo privo di ricadute sul territorio cui quel piano o programma è indirizzato. Gli aspetti peculiari del processo applicati alla tipologia dei piani di gestione forestale evidenziano come il fatto di non aver compreso fino in fondo l'impatto positivo che ha sul territorio l'attuazione di tale processo da parte delle Regioni, ha determinato una mancata occasione in termini di ricadute positive sullo stesso territorio. Nell'esaminare le azioni e gli obiettivi che si prefigge un piano forestale generale emerge in modo chiaro che le azioni e gli obiettivi indicati nel rapporto ambientale dei diversi piani forestali generali puntano a valorizzare ogni possibile intervento, finalizzandolo al raggiungimento di un livello di sostenibilità ambientale sempre più alto. Le fasi della valutazione, infatti, impongono che l'attività in questione sia effettuata come un'analisi degli effetti potenziali di quel determinato piano/programma sul territorio. L'obiettivo che il progetto di ricerca si pone, infatti, non è semplicemente quello di analizzare lo stato dell'arte rispetto al recepimento della direttiva in generale ed in particolare l'attuazione in Italia sia a livello nazionale che regionale, ma soprattutto quello di evidenziare il ruolo decisivo che assume la valutazione ambientale strategica nell'ambito della pianificazione e dove trova fondamento questo ruolo, cercando di far comprendere il motivo per cui la mancata valutazione costituisca un'occasione persa per quel territorio e per le comunità che vi abitano. L'approccio metodologico da seguire potrebbe essere quelle di avviare un Tavolo permanente sulle tematiche Foresta e Ambiente fra tutti i soggetti interessati e coinvolti nel processo di VAS (che deve essere strutturato in maniera più articolata rispetto a quello allo stato previsto, in modo tale che possa godere di poteri operativi e di indirizzo che siano più incisivi sul territorio), un confronto che, partendo dalla normativa vigente, a livello nazionale ed anche regionale, individui delle "best-practices" da utilizzare come modello per ogni tipologia di piano/programma. ; The SEA in the intention of the European legislator has been planned as a decision support tool, and as such applicable to a variety of plans and programs in order of their most effective approach to environmental sustainability. The development of the strategic environmental assessment process can impact positively and allows the benefit of the positive effects that the plan or program will have on that particular territory. The aim of this research project is to make it clear that the strategic environmental assessment process has to address a plan or a program to environmental sustainability. This is contrary to the way in which Vas has in many cases been understood, as a mere bureaucratic and administrative performance without any impact on the area where the plan or program is addressed. In particular, if we consider the peculiar aspects of the process applied to the type of forest management plans, it shows a failure and the loss of positive results on the territory, as it was not understood the positive impact that the implementation of this process by the Regions has on the territory. The result is the loss of positive impacts on the territory. When examining the actions and objectives of a general forest plan, it is clear that the actions and goals set out in the environmental report of the different forest management plans are aimed at enhancing every possible action, to achieve an ever higher level of environmental sustainability. The evaluation steps, in fact, require that the strategic assessment activity is carried out as an analysis of the potential effects of that particular plan on the territory. The goal of the research project is not merely to analyze the state of the art in relation to the transposition of the Directive in general and, in particular, at national and regional level in Italy, but to highlight the decisive role that the planning takes on the strategic environmental assessment and where this role is based, trying to explain why the evaluation is a good opportunity not to be missed for that area and for the communities that live there. The activities conducted made it possible to identify priorities and to highlight the critical nodes in the network of the governance of the territory, as a method to approach effective environmental assessment procedures. The methodological approach to follow would be to start a Permanent Table on Forestry and Environment issues among all stakeholders and involved in the SEA, a comparison that starts from current legislation, not just at national level but also regional, best-practices individuals to use as a model for each type of p/p. The methodological approach to follow could be to start a permanent Table on the themes of the Forest and the Environment issues among all the subjects involved in the Strategic Environmental Assessment process, a comparison starting from the current legislation, both at national and regional level, to find best-practices to use as a template for each type of p/p.

Public administration, strategic management and organizational behaviour have found an intersection in behavioural microfoundation of dynamic capabilities. The aspects are treated through literature reviews and empirical analyses. The attention is on public organizations. Municipalities are characterized by proximity to external stakeholders and the possibility to apply strategic concepts, such as dynamic capabilities. Two dynamic capabilities are relevant: innovation and ambidexterity. The thesis defines these constructs and studies their antecedents. In microfoundation, two major fields are cognitive capabilities and social capital. A survey is administered in Italian local governments. Data collection is significant: 551 municipal employees working in 50 municipalities. The results confirm that cognitive capabilities, mindfulness and political skills, and social capital, internal and external, may have positive effects on individual dynamic capabilities in local governments.

La ricerca di innovazione nelle modalità descrittive e interpretative, oltre che operative, gestionali e normative del territorio e del paesaggio ha visto negli ultimi quindici anni in Italia l'elaborazione di un corpus di studi, teorie, pratiche che si sono svolte attorno ad alcune figure della cosiddetta scuola territorialista (Magnaghi 2000; Magnaghi 2005; Magnaghi 2007). Questo filone di studi formalizza una serie di tendenze già rintracciabili in altre componenti del dibattito disciplinare italiano ed internazionale organizzandole coerentemente in funzione di una spiccata attenzione ai contesti locali (Baldeschi 2002). La tensione all'autosostenibilità dell'insediamento, intesa come rafforzamento degli elementi e delle energie proprie dei contesti locali (discussa in maniera particolare all'interno del LAPEI, Laboratorio per la progettazione ecologica degli insediamenti di Firenze) ha dato esito ad una serie di prodotti nel campo della ricerca e della pratica pianificatoria. ; In the last fifteen years, in Italy, the research of innovation in the descriptive and interpretative ways and at least in the operational, managerial and normative aspects of planning (both of the territory and of the landscape) has seen the elaboration of a corpus of studies, theories, practices that are developed around the so-called "territorialist school" (Magnaghi, 2000). This ensemble of studies formalizes a series of tendencies, already present in other components of the disciplinary debate (not only in Italy but also worldwide), which are coherently organized in order to focalize on the local contexts. The attention is fixed on the "self-sustainable" planning (that is discussed in a particular way in the Laboratory for the Ecological Planning of the Settlements - LAPEI - in Florence) whose outcome is a series of products in the area of the research and the practice of planning. ; Peer Reviewed

La ricerca di innovazione nelle modalità descrittive e interpretative, oltre che operative, gestionali e normative del territorio e del paesaggio ha visto negli ultimi quindici anni in Italia l'elaborazione di un corpus di studi, teorie, pratiche che si sono svolte attorno ad alcune figure della cosiddetta scuola territorialista (Magnaghi 2000; Magnaghi 2005; Magnaghi 2007). Questo filone di studi formalizza una serie di tendenze già rintracciabili in altre componenti del dibattito disciplinare italiano ed internazionale organizzandole coerentemente in funzione di una spiccata attenzione ai contesti locali (Baldeschi 2002). La tensione all'autosostenibilità dell'insediamento, intesa come rafforzamento degli elementi e delle energie proprie dei contesti locali (discussa in maniera particolare all'interno del LAPEI, Laboratorio per la progettazione ecologica degli insediamenti di Firenze) ha dato esito ad una serie di prodotti nel campo della ricerca e della pratica pianificatoria. ; In the last fifteen years, in Italy, the research of innovation in the descriptive and interpretative ways and at least in the operational, managerial and normative aspects of planning (both of the territory and of the landscape) has seen the elaboration of a corpus of studies, theories, practices that are developed around the so-called "territorialist school" (Magnaghi, 2000). This ensemble of studies formalizes a series of tendencies, already present in other components of the disciplinary debate (not only in Italy but also worldwide), which are coherently organized in order to focalize on the local contexts. The attention is fixed on the "self-sustainable" planning (that is discussed in a particular way in the Laboratory for the Ecological Planning of the Settlements - LAPEI - in Florence) whose outcome is a series of products in the area of the research and the practice of planning. ; Peer Reviewed