Introduction

The works presented insisted around two well-defined research topics that relate to the cultural sensitivity of young researchers, even indepen-dently of the guidelines for the study of various schools of belonging, and above all reflect the required depth on which the entire international scientific community focuses and questions. Both dimensions of analysis are part of a perspective that considers our cultural landscape transformed by the rapid diffusion of various participatory forms of digitally-mediated production. We can observe an explosion of independently produced digital contents such as stories, video documentaries, music, free software, whose creation processes spring from the spontaneous cooperation between skilled amateurs. The web is a multi-faceted context where diverse cultural spaces are overlapping and establishing themselves under differentiated horizons of values, power configuration and linguistic conventions. There is the need to map these multiple geographies in order to uncover the variable thick- ness of convergent culture. Patterns of cultural flows, identity expression, social dynamics of cooperation or disaggregation, interactive or partici- patory frames, constitute the background issues that should to be rescued from the rhetoric of newness surrounding the digital media ecology.