The future as a media fact. Adolescents, transmedia narratives and visions of the future

In the era of "sad passions" and deprivation of long-term planning in favor of a "short future" for the new generations3, we are called to reflect on the motivations behind this trend and on strategies to overcome critical issues. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to document and understand, through the analysis of the relationship with the media, how the developing of identity of adolescents has changed and how the imaginary of which the media are carrying has influenced the same planning and on the future of the new generations. Starting from the hypothesis that the so-called "decline of desire" is also the result of an excess of narration of youthful unease and the future as a threat, to the detriment of the cultivation of an imaginary on the future as a possibility and as salvation, the contribution focuses on the the connective function of media texts and their ability to cultivate possible futures.