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In the digital age we live in, will it disappear paper ?.

This has been one of the issues raised by the expert in the sociology of media and professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Communication at the University of Florence (Italy), Silvia Pezzoli, who gave the conference in the UCAM ' paper, digital and convergence.

The narrative of the young ', in the framework of the IV International Conference Multidisciplinary' Personal Development '.

The event, organized by the Research Group 'Personal Development, and the Department of Education of the institution, opened Wednesday and continued throughout the day today.

Paper / digital

Silvia Pezzoli recalled that we are in a time of great convergence between paper and digital, and said that from his point of view the role will not disappear, "and proof of this phenomenon is the approach of young people to reading extensive books, "but qualifies that" the user before acquiring a literary product goes to the Internet to read the review and assess whether the product comes close to our tastes. "

Therefore, the sociologist recognizes the need "to build bridges between non-academic counselors and those actually engaged in reading academic sense."

And before this convergence between digital and paper Pezzoli he states that "the literary genre of serial novels close reading to young people", adding that "it is interesting to see how these books that are attributed little literary level , approaching young people reading, especially of paper. "

Young Adult

Another of the concepts explained during his speech professor at the University of Florence has been the adult.

"For young adults means more than a chronological age group, a group of people who are still in search of its own identity," he asserted, and has indicated that an important aspect of society today is to see how the concept of youth It no longer corresponds to a contextualized age "today a young person is the one between 16 and 34 years, but in practice, this concept is lengthening in relation to all the phenomena of uncertainty and identity crisis that currently they give. "

Social Intelligence

The conference will mainly focus on the concept of social intelligence, "basic aspect of the people," said the lead researcher of the group 'Personal Development', and one of the organizers of the event.

During the same, and through panel discussions and presentations, it is deepening the concept of teamwork, "not only in the aspect of working with others, which is what at first you learn to do, but also the process cooperative, which goes a step further, and understand, know, know what your strengths are, and expose them to the other, so that each does what he knows best, working together, "said Peña.

Source: UCAM