L'urlo dei media. La paura, il terrore e la nascita dei mezzi di comunicazione nel Novecento

The article to critically reinterpret the role of narratives regarding the birth and childhood of media and relation with the elements of fear and terror. Through the topos of the panicking audiences, narratives conveyed the idea of technology’s disruptive force and express its potential on society in terms of perception of reality, as well as in the reduction and modification of dimensions of space and time.Though, the symbolic function of the relationship between the of the medium and the element of fear can take on different meanings. After having listed the tales about the birth and the childhood of the media in the Twentieth Century, the article on the role of fear and power in the evolution of narratives about the internet, revealing the biographical trajectory characterizing the life path and the social perception of this in contemporary societies.