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In the mediated narrative about Lampedusa as a destination, thetourist’s mobility is indicating consumption. The recommendation of a boatride off Lampedusa’s coast to best experience/consume Lampedusa’s beauty,stands in great contrast to the boat rides in the narrative of the mobility ofthe migrant/refugee. This research is investigating the mediation andmobility processes working in the narrative of Lampedusa’s social structuresas a destination for the two human mobility categories the Tourist and theMigrant/Refugee. Mediated material concerning the two categories of humanmobility, the tourist and the migrant/refugee has been collected on theInternet. Material from two tourist destination communication platforms isillustrating the mobility of the tourist and the narrative of Lampedusa as atourist destination. While material from two humanitarian-aidcommunication platforms serve to illustrate the narrative of the mobility ofthe migrant/refugee and of the humanitarian crisis at the destination and itssurrounding waters. In order to a get fuller understanding of the mediatednarrative of Lampedusa I have added articles from English and Italianspeaking online news channels. The included material is selected following anon-probability, purposive sampling method. The result of the studydemonstrates that by maintaining the meditated narrative of the tourist as aconsumer, the mobility of the tourist is weakening the mobility of themigrant/refugee. And the narrative of Lampedusa is reinforcing the socialpower structures of the tourist from the Global North and themigrant/refugee from the Global South, as a representation of the politicaland moral consensus of postcolonialism.

Our increasing dependency on the internet has had a significant social, behavioural and psychological impact on us all, and not entirely positive. Networked technologies provide an endlessly-renewing refuge of digital information from the uncertainties of life in the physical world, a potentially addictive and ultimately unfulfilling emotional sanctuary. A compulsive craving for constant connectivity has been normalized by broader trends in public life, including a celebration of hypermediated workaholism, unsustainable consumerism, and a corporatist agenda for commodifying personal data and social conformity.Habitual use of networked digital media is crucial in order to socially and professionally thrive in contemporary society, so exposure cannot be completely curtailed and must be voluntarily monitored and managed at a personal level. Informed by an analysis of related socio-theoretical phenomena and historical counter-strategies, as well as expert interviews and interaction design theory, we explore how this could potentially happen through re-sensitizing the ‘smartness’ and ‘responsiveness’ of the technology itself, to appropriately curb its own misuse.These issues are addressed by a design concept developed through two artifacts: the first, a web-based application; and the second, a semi-functional technology probe and conjectural video prototype. Design is enlisted to explore how rethinking the implementation of digital experiences could potentially re- empower an individual to achieve a temporary liberation from (or at least an increased self-awareness of) their splintered psychological predicament, in the hopes of ultimately guiding them towards a healthier, more balanced relationship with networked media technologies.

Objective: Test changes in (a) perceived coping efficacy, (b) negative self-statements, and (c) interpretive biases to threat as potential mediators of the relationship between treatment condition and long-term follow-up (average of 6.5 years after intervention). Test moderating effect of age at time of randomization on mediational effect for the 3 putative mediators. Method: Participants included 301 youth who had participated in the Child/Adolescent Multimodal Study (CAMS) and agreed to participate in a naturalistic follow-up study beginning an average of 6.5 years after the end of the acute treatment phase. In the intervention phase, participants (ages 7 to 17) were randomized to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), pharmacotherapy (sertraline), combined CBT and sertraline, or pill placebo. Putative mediators were measured at 4 time-points over the course of the intervention phase. The follow-up study consisted of five annual assessment visits that included ratings of current anxiety based on an interview by an independent evaluator who was blind to the randomization of participants. Results: Reductions on a measure of interpretive biases to threat over the course of the combined intervention condition mediated anxiety outcomes at the first follow-up visit. No other significant mediated effects were found for any of the putative mediators. Age did not significantly moderate any mediated effects. Conclusions: The findings suggest that interpretive biases to threat, an often elevated characteristic of anxious youth, may be important to address as part of the treatment of anxiety in order to maintain reductions in anxiety in the years following treatment. The specificity of this finding to the combined CBT and sertraline condition offers support for the synergistic effect of CBT and sertraline when implemented in tandem to reduce anxiety-related cognitive factors with long-term implications. / Psychology