IULM Authors: Sociology of AI
A new event in the series of meetings at IULM's Rome campus
IULM University, as part of the IULM Authors cycle, is pleased to announce the presentation of the volume Sociology of AI. Creativity, Consciousness, Power (Guerini Next, Milan 2025), an intellectual project by Mauro Ferraresi, with Massimiliano Raffa.
Artificial intelligence is a sophisticated technology, but a technology that generates meanings and produces culture, perhaps even something like a form of consciousness. And who holds the power over these processes?
The book addresses these issues and questions with the tools of sociology: not to celebrate nor to condemn, but to understand. Ferraresi and Raffa trace a genealogy of technology as an extension of the human, analyze new forms of algorithmic power, interrogate artificial creativity and its ethical implications, and open up the problem, far from academic, of a possible synthetic consciousness. In the background, the inequalities that AI infrastructures are already producing in the social fabric.
A necessary book for those who want to understand the present that will be.
Sociology of AI. Creativity, consciousness, power
Presentation of the book by Mauro Ferraresi and Massimiliano Raffa
Thursday, June 18, 2026 6 p.m.
IULM University - Rome Polo
Via dei Montecatini 17
Mauro Ferraresi, Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication, IULM University of Milan
Massimiliano Raffa, University of Milan-Bicocca
Introduces and dialogues with the authors
Prof. Paolo Proietti, Pro-rector at the Rome Pole, IULM University
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