The transformations of “public sphere” category, and the contemporary debate about digital citizenship

The digital turn has shaken at its foundations the «mass society», the label that entered the lexicon of social sciences in the Twentieth century, accompanying advanced industrial societies for a long time (Gili, 1990), before their transformation into post-industrial ones (Touraine, 1969). The new context in which the increasingly important role assumed by telematic technologies and Information and communication technologies has opened..