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Serial Worlds, Complex Societies – Part 2. Television Series And Sociocultural Mutations
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2024)Why has television seriality begun to acquire an increasingly central role in the cultural
consumption and media consumptions of millions of people, with its impact becoming more
evident since the 2010s? Among the many analyses addressing this question, one of the most well-founded examines the connection between the distribution modes of platformized seriality and the temporality experienced by millions of young people and adults worldwide. -
Global Maradona: man, athlete, celebrity, idol, hero, myth
Vol. 5 (2021)The FUNES and ERACLE journals joint special issue aims to investigate, along a comparative spectrum, the global and local extent of the Maradona phenomenon.
It is hard to find, in the champions pantheon of the sport history, a person who has experienced the same public consideration as the one for Diego Armando Maradona. Always on the stage, always drawing everyone’s attention, never an ordinary man.
If both in Argentina and in Naples the “pibe de oro” has easily become a significant icon of popular culture and tradition, on an international scale the resonance of his figure and the planetary roar generated by his death, lead us to reflect upon a global cultural phenomenon full of facets, interpretations and multiple considerations.
