Dalla fobia al clamore? Immaginari e usi delle T.I.C. nelle pratiche e nell’educazione penitenziarie nelle carceri italiane e argentine durante la pandemia

Abstract

Through a comparative study between Italy and Argentina, carried out through in-depth interviewswith key actors such as some prison directors and the relative school managers, and against thebackground of the Covid-19 pandemic, the article aims to analyse and compare past and currentimages on information and communication technologies (Ict) in prison, especially focused oneducational processes. The interpretative investigation on the practices of Ict use in prison by theprison regime and the school actors, on the meanings attributed to them and the effects of theirimplementation, as well as on the possible lines of development lets emerge the existing tensionsbetween physical closure and virtual openness, between new patterns assumed by the educationalprocesses with the integration or enhancement of Ict and new ways of building the prison order in apandemic time.