Serious game per il crowdsourcing di dati sull'accessibilità urbana

L'obiettivo di questo documento di tesi è descrivere il design e lo sviluppo di uno strumento per la raccolta delle segnalazioni di barriere architettoniche che possa coinvolgere il maggior numero possibile di utenti attraverso un serious game, implementando meccaniche di gioco che incitino il suo utilizzo, e che al tempo stesso sia divertente, anche grazie a contenuti tematici quali gli zombie, il tutto attraverso una interfaccia semplice e funzionale. Le segnalazioni sono disponibili pubblicamente attraverso Fusion Tables dove esse sono memorizzate, permettendo inoltre di avere una visione globale delle criticità grazie alla visualizzazione su Google Maps.

Pontypool, traduci e muori. Traduzione di pontypool changes everything di tony burgess.

This work is focused on the translation of the first half of the novel Pontypool Changes Everything, written by Canadian author and screenplay writer Tony Burgess in 1998 and – quite surprisingly – still unpublished in Italy. Although the book disguises itself as a product for general consumption – more precisely as a tale of zombies – it is clear from the very beginning that the author is not interested in conforming to the conventions of the genre to which his work belongs. On the contrary, he seems to exploit the recent success of zombiea-pocalypse inspired stories to build up a more complex type of narrative. Nonetheless, he writes a story that introduces certain innovative elements in the rather repetitive and seemingly outworn genre, like the idea of a language-borne virus. Burgess, who has a graduate degree in semiotics, was by his own admission “insufferably preoccupied with literary malformations” when he wrote the book. As a matter of fact his narrative tackles issues – albeit superficially and always entertainingly – that seem to stem from the theories which originated in the field of linguistics around the second half of the twentieth century. It goes without saying that translating – as much as reading – such a book is both a difficult and compelling operation. As a translator you are required to constantly shift from one strategy to another, paying great attention to the semantic nuances of the written words whilst keeping in mind what the actual intention of the text is. Together with the book translation, this dissertation offers a brief introduction to the fundamental principles of translation and a detailed analysis of some of the translation problems posed by the novel.

Proposta di traduzione del fumetto Dodici di Zerocalcare

ABSTRACT The aim of this dissertation is to provide a translation from Italian into Russian of the graphic novel Dodici by Zerocalcare. The book is a comic horror story set in Rebibbia, a district of Rome. The plot revolves around the adventures of a group of friends as they attempt to save themselves from the zombie epidemic that has affected their neighborhood. This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter provides an insight into the history of comics, starting with its precursors and ending with modern times. Then it proceeds to carry out an analysis of the language of the comics and to list the different types and genres of comics. The chapter ends with a brief walk through the history of comics in Italy and Russia. The second chapter opens with an introduction to the author and his works, followed by the plot of the comic book and its analysis. The main part of this chapter concerns the proposed translation of the first 52 pages. Finally, the third chapter gives a commentary on the translation that was carried out, analyzing the major difficulties encountered during the translation process and suggesting some suitable translation strategies to solve these problems.