Tuesday, May 28, at 5:30 PM, in Classroom CS1 at the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences (FSC), the presentation of the book Raccontare la speranza. Parole disarmate per costruire futuro (LAS, 2025), edited by Cosimo Alvati and Teresa Doni, will take place.
The book was created as a response to Pope Francesco's message for World Communications Day, encouraging the search for and storytelling of hopeful narratives, even in daily news. It is a call to overcome indifference, listen to the cries of the marginalized, and build a genuine, supportive dialogue.
The volume brings together thirteen contributions from FSC faculty members, adopting a multidisciplinary approach ranging from theology to communication. The authors reflect on the importance of "disarming" contemporary communication—freeing it from aggression and falsehoods. A strong message emerges: only pacified words can generate a future.
At the event, the curators of the book, Cosimo Alvati and Teresa Doni, will speak, along with two of the authors: Maurizio Di Schino, who explores slow journalism and new paradigms for attentive and responsible communication, and Fabio Pasqualetti, who will discuss the role of technology as an expression of human hope. The meeting will be moderated by Paolo Restuccia, with other authors present in the room, participating in the debate.
Among the themes explored in the book: peace journalism, education in gentleness, the digital infosphere, "soft" advertising, Christian metal as a form of sonic hope, and poetic audiovisual narratives. A mosaic of reflections that encourages readers to imagine and build a more humane and generative communication.
The 13 contributions in the volume:
- Hope and liberation. The gentle and revolutionary legacy of two prophets of our time: Jürgen Moltmann e Gustavo Gutiérrez | Teresa Doni
- Embrace every hope, you who exist! Anthropological foundations of hope | Tiziano Conti
- The regulatory function of hope | Cristiano Ciferri
- Words in the infosphere. Communicating hope in the digital society | Maria Chiara De Angelis
- Looking at the other: a reinterpretation of proximity relationships in the age of Hate speech | Angelo Romeo
- Gentleness as an ontological virtue in the teacher-student relationship | Maria Emanuela Coscia
- Technology produces the hope that dwells in the heart of man | Fabio Pasqualetti
- Peace journalism and constructive journalism: toward disarmed information | Paola Springhetti
- Slow journalism and the 5M model: new paradigms for word stewardship | Maurizio Di Schino
- Christian Metal: the "noise" of hope | Cosimo Alvati
- Audiovisual (serial) narratives to share hope. A poetic perspective | Donato Lacedonio
- How we were: Carosello and soft advertising | Simonetta Blasi
- Signs on the road to hope | Gian Carlo Olcuire
An invitation to rediscover the transformative power of hope and the peace-bringing strength of words.