Reti immaginate. Media, ideologia e metafore organizzative delle azioni connettive = Networks imagined. Media, ideology and organizational metaphors of connective actions

Abstract

National Network Precarious Researchers, GAS Network, Rainbow Parents Network, Network of high school students, the Coffee Suspended Network, Network of Knowledge, Network of Lilliput, Lenford Network, Network of Solidary Economy. Networks: many civil society organizations and social movements adopt this term to be defined. So often that this metaphor appears not only the frame to define collective action but also its new, and now settled, ideology. Where does this practice of identity arise, this way of conceiving and framing movements and organizations? This article intends to analyze the recent collective mobilizations to propose some answers to these hypotheses