Scrivere e apprendere nella condizione postmediale

The author addresses the issue of writing practices within the contemporary media landscape, which he defines a “post-media condition”; indeed, media presence is presently pervasive but unnoticed, since media are an integrated component of everyday experience. In this context, two elements define writing practices. On the one hand, they are widespread, “naturalized”, and intermodal – i.e. we can’t perceive substantial differences between the different modes of writing, from the verbal to the visual or audiovisual one. On the other hand, writing practices and productions play a fundamental role in the construction and representation of social bond within the information networks. In its conclusions, the author questions opportunities for the institutional teaching of writing practices. He argues that high complexity writing practices represent the specific scope of teaching institution; indeed, this kind of practices require special skills linked to design competence and critical approach, which cannot be transmitted within non-institutional contexts.