INDUSTRY / MARKET Italy
by Davide Abbatescianni
26/07/2023 – The initiatives mentioned included a memorandum signed by the Italian Division for Digital Communications, Broadcasting and Postal Companies and the MIA designed to transmit instructional messages
On 25 July, the Giffoni Innovation Hub, unfolding inside the Giffoni Movie Pageant (operating 20-29 July), hosted a panel dialogue entitled “Safeguarding minors on social media, from the usage of rising know-how via to the truth of revenge porn in movie and audiovisual contexts.”
Moderated by the director of Rome’s MIA Gaia Tridente, the dialogue concerned actresses Milena Mancini and Greta Gasbarri from the movie Mia , in addition to the top of the Italian Division for Digital Communications, Broadcasting and Postal Companies (DGSCERP), housed inside the Ministry for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Donatella Proto, and Rosanna Ranieri representing the Division for Household Insurance policies inside the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
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After opening the talk, Tridente turned her focus to Ivano de Matteo’s film, Mia, which explores the themes of revenge porn and psychological and power-related abuses, telling the story of a easy household who welcome a violent and manipulative younger man into their lives, who subsequently turns the protagonist’s life the other way up.
Mancini defined how troublesome it was enjoying this function as a mom to 2 boys and having to image herself as a mother or father of a teenage lady. “These days, being a mother or father or somebody who’s speculated to be a job mannequin for younger folks is the toughest job on the planet. It at all times has been, however nowadays children have lived via Covid, they’ve much more points. […] [When I was young] I used to be much more direct, much more bodily. I used to be the kind of teenager who’d get into fights with different women over a boy. We’d have a look at each other, perceive each other, be in tune with our animal intuition”, the actress defined.
She then pressured how “there’s part of movie, theatre and TV collection, over and above leisure and style movies” which has the obligation to “painting modern-day humanity, in order that viewers can see and perceive themselves in a sure sense.” She additionally shared how, on varied events, the movie’s distributor 01 had organised separate screenings of the movie: one for folks and one for kids. On the finish, the forged met with the mother and father and kids collectively, encouraging a debate which might inevitably be continued exterior of the cinema.
Tridente then requested Gasbarri how these themes are tackled in faculties. In accordance with the latter, there’s an actual ignorance and knowledge in faculties: “We discuss them between us as a result of we hear about [these themes], however in faculties they’re not typically talked about and so they don’t discover them in depth. We do social research however that doesn’t actually cowl it: we research articles of the Structure, not social points per se”.
Proto defined that her division just lately signed a Memorandum with the MIA to raised convey these instructional messages which the establishments battle to transmit and which the artistic industries – movie and TV included – also can move on efficiently.
“We mustn’t overlook that know-how is a software, it may be impartial relying on how you employ it. […] Serving to folks perceive the dangers and alternatives it presents was what motivated us and the Ministry for Enterprise and Made in Italy to signal this Memorandum.”
“Revenge porn is simply one of many many points stemming from this hyper-connected world”, she added, earlier than citing the specter of grooming, excessive isolation and cyberbullying, heightened by the after-effects of the pandemic.
Ranieri spoke about how her workers have been tackling cyberbullying since 2017, planning communications to fight this sort of abuse in co-operation with the Ministry of Schooling and Achievement, and Agcom. She then specified how all European authorities insurance policies, together with Italy’s, are primarily based on the UN’s 1989 Conference on the Rights of the Baby and Adolescent, and pressured the numerous rise we’ve seen within the phenomenon of revenge porn, in comparison with different points. What’s extra, in collaboration with Telefono Azzurro, the Ministry’s scope of motion has expanded to cowl new sorts of juvenile points and is now not restricted to excessive dangers equivalent to paedophilia and little one pornography.
Ranieri then emphasised how the Division is making an attempt to maintain tempo with the instances by working throughout all social media channels, TikTok included. She additionally talked about the most recent marketing campaign to boost consciousness of the youngsters’s emergency phone quantity 114, which will probably be launched solely on social media for the primary time ever, with out being broadcast on RAI as has occurred up to now. The subsequent awareness-raising marketing campaign, in the meantime, will embody a devoted podcast for the very first time.
The controversy closed with a quick Q&A session.
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(Translated from Italian)