Education, Information, and Social Justice. Issues and Perspectives

This study aims to examine the relationship between education and social media within a global epistemic framework where participatory configurations and consumerist attitudes merge through formal, non-formal, informal learning, and information, also influencing the very idea of social justice. In this sense, it seems useful reconsidering the boundaries of the definition of social justice to assess information's epistemic role , also investigating the social ability to choose learning mechanisms and processes deserving trustworthiness tied to social justice within mediatized information landscape. Based on in-depth interviews and focus groups with students from the Faculties of Political Science, Sociology and Communication, Law, Humanities and Mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome, the paper explores the epistemic interaction between the contents of their university curricula, the media ecosystem, and public opinion regarding recent armed conflicts.