Digital identity and body identity: the mutation of the university environment in pandemic times

Abstract

The pandemic period led universities to face new needs and to reinvent and readapt their educational activities in online mode to make them available and continuous. The consideration is about the effects produced in university students by the pandemic conditions and the exclusion of bodily experience in the real world. A study was led on a group of 405 subjects in order to evaluate their emotional, conflictual and social state and the possible emergence of obstructive behaviour in relation to themselves and others. Thanks to this study, it's clear that the bodily experience remains irreplaceable, and in a moment in which we have been deprived of the body and its resources, we need to reconsider the relationship between person and his body, re-evaluating it as a real value and relational foundation, of its innate potential as a means of learning.