People and the web: a challenge for Sociology.

The web has become a new space for living and socializing where all is co-present and the opportunities for personal development multiply the access and selection mechanisms at the basis of social structure to the highest degree, thus creating new inequalities. Anyone can see that the birth of the web, accompanied by the development of modern communication technologies and by the resulting process of technological hybridization has brought about a radical change in social processes and relational systems. Our research focalizes on the role the educational institution can and must play in the new web society, starting with an analysis of the social impact caused by its penetration in a more ample scheme of relationships.