Arianna Dagnino

Who is Arianna Dagnino?

Arianna_Dagnino is an Italian writer, journalist and researcher presently based in Vancouver, Canada. In August 2013 she completed her PhD at the University of South Australia, in Adelaide. She has a Masters Degree in Foreign Contemporary Languages and Literatures from the Università degli Studi di Genova. With her essays and articles she has contributed to the development of digital culture within the Italian context by analyzing change produced by the economic globalization and the introduction of new technologies of electronic communication.

Drawing on French sociologist Michel Maffesoli’s conceptualization of postmodern forms of wandering, blurring of borders and fluidity of social belongings, in her essay I Nuovi Nomadi she contributed to the definition of the concept of neonomadismo. The neologism stands for the new existential approach and the new deterritorialized, itinerant life-style of the emerging international class of the knowledge workers. I Nuovi Nomadi has been introduced as a reference text book in several Italian Universities; among them, Università della Sapienza in Rome and Università Statale in Milan.