The text examines the impact of the digital transition on social work, highlighting how digital technologies have become primarily social technologies and ordinary interfaces of professional and personal relationships. Drawing on the accelerated experience brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the contribution shows how social workers occupy a privileged position from which to observe both the criticalities and the potential of screen-mediated relationships, within a context marked by increasing hybridity between online and offline environments. While acknowledging the validity of existing national and international ethical guidelines, the text rejects the assumption of technological neutrality and the idea of a full equivalence between presence and distance. Digital platforms, in fact, shape the timing, language, visibility, and vulnerabilities of care relationships. This calls for a reflexive professional stance and for an ethics of care capable of recognizing the embodied vulnerability of all subjects involved, as well as for a critical engagement with future developments related to artificial intelligence.
Il testo analizza l’impatto della transizione digitale sul lavoro sociale, mettendo in luce come le tecnologie digitali siano oggi soprattutto tecnologie sociali, divenute interfacce ordinarie delle relazioni professionali e personali. A partire dall’esperienza accelerata dalla pandemia di Covid-19, il contributo mostra come gli assistenti sociali si trovino in una posizione privilegiata per osservare criticità e potenzialità delle relazioni mediate da schermi, in un contesto segnato dalla crescente ibridazione tra online e offline. Pur riconoscendo la validità dei principi etici già presenti negli orientamenti nazionali e internazionali, il testo rifiuta l’idea di una neutralità delle tecnologie digitali e di una piena equivalenza tra presenza e distanza. Le piattaforme digitali, infatti, plasmano tempi, linguaggi, visibilità e vulnerabilità delle relazioni di cura. Ne deriva la necessità di una postura riflessiva e di un’etica della cura capace di riconoscere la vulnerabilità incarnata di tutti i soggetti coinvolti, nonché di interrogarsi criticamente sugli sviluppi futuri legati all’intelligenza artificiale.
Monti, P. (2023). Tecnologie digitali e lavoro sociale. «Onlife» social work?. LAVORO SOCIALE, 23(4 (Agosto 2023)), 11-15.
Tecnologie digitali e lavoro sociale. «Onlife» social work?
Monti, P
2023
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The text examines the impact of the digital transition on social work, highlighting how digital technologies have become primarily social technologies and ordinary interfaces of professional and personal relationships. Drawing on the accelerated experience brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the contribution shows how social workers occupy a privileged position from which to observe both the criticalities and the potential of screen-mediated relationships, within a context marked by increasing hybridity between online and offline environments. While acknowledging the validity of existing national and international ethical guidelines, the text rejects the assumption of technological neutrality and the idea of a full equivalence between presence and distance. Digital platforms, in fact, shape the timing, language, visibility, and vulnerabilities of care relationships. This calls for a reflexive professional stance and for an ethics of care capable of recognizing the embodied vulnerability of all subjects involved, as well as for a critical engagement with future developments related to artificial intelligence.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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