Università del rischio e mobilità accademica: la drammatizzazione mediale della violenza

The focus of this paper is to define the academic space as a “place of insecurity”, starting from the analysis of the news reports on the circumstances regarding the death of Valeria Solesin and Giulio Regeni. The two Italian researchers died in November 2015 and February 2016 respectively, Valeria in Paris and Giulio in Cairo. To the fore is the process of media dramatization and the tendency to accentuate facts connected to the “risks” of university mobility, with specific reference to the Italian researchers traveling abroad.