#1207 Alberto Acerbi: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm here with a return guest, Dr. Alberto Acerbi. He is associate professor of sociology at the University of Trento in Italy, and he is the author of a new book, Tecnopanico. I mean, in English it would be something like Technopanic, digital media between reasonable caution and unjustified fears, and we're going to
talk about the book today. So Dr. Racherby, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Thank you.
Big pleasure for me, hi Riccardo. So let me start with this question. What do you mean by techno panic by using, I'm using the word in English here, of course. I mean, how would you characterize a techno panic? Yes, technopanic is a is a word that has been used a bit in some uh literature recently to talk about some excessive uh fear or alarmisc narrative about uh technologies and um
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