When Do We Trust?

The perception of ‘reality’ in a post-phenomenological and post-truth era.

Technology is constantly reshaping society and human relationship. Some of this transformations are more evident than ever in the contemporary digital era, where the singular perception of the reality has a stronger consideration than the established knowledge and new dynamics are reconfiguring the societal structure in terms of trust. In the attempt to understand how this perception affects individuals position as citizen within the system, it is necessary before to delineate a profile of people's fundamental principles of cooperation and coexistence through values of judgment, relationships with the other, their role within social hierarchies, institutional powers and, more in general, towards knowledge.

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