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The study aims at disclosing the narrative of immigration and the construction of the otherness in Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini’s discourse, geared towards the legitimization of anti-immigration policies. For this purpose, the author analyzes a sample of the Italian Interior Minister’s discourses related to three cases of migrant landings, drawing on Proximization Theory, revealing how the concepts of closeness and remoteness are manipulated for the construction of threat and the legitimization of negative political response. The study concludes that Salvini’s discourse presents all the classic characteristics of populism. It depicts virtuous and hardworking people threatened by the “others”, them “illegals” who are not “legitimate refugees”, along with inventing a new antagonist “other”, the rescue NGOs that are framed as criminals, justifying their criminalization.

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies highlights “augmented human technologies” as one of their emerging trends, while the Future Today Institute alludes to the potential of extended reality (digitally manipulated environments encompassing virtual and augmented reality) for the development of new applications with great informative value. Based on this, the current study brings together in-depth interviews with experts who analyze the possibilities of augmented reality (AR) in journalism, including its weaknesses and some proposals for new journalistic scenarios. The study concludes that, according to experts, the use of AR in daily systems and applications is key to establishing this technology. In addition, experts stress the need to carry out sociological and ethical studies of its impact, as well as experimental research on the use of augmented senses in humans, including both visual and haptic augmentation and hearing. Resumen El Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies destaca las “tecnologías humanas aumentadas” como una de las tendencias emergentes; mientras que el Future Today Institute alude al potencial de la realidad extendida (entornos manipulados digitalmente que abarca la realidad virtual y aumentada) para el desarrollo de nuevas aplicaciones de gran valor informativo. Partiendo de ello, el estudio reúne entrevistas en profundidad a expertos que analizan las posibilidades de la realidad aumentada (RA) en el periodismo y sus debilidades, y propone nuevos escenarios a nivel periodístico. Según los expertos, el uso de RA en sistemas y aplicaciones de uso diario es el punto clave para asentar esta tecnología. Además, inciden en la necesidad de realizar estudios sociológicos y éticos de su impacto, así como investigaciones experimentales sobre el uso de sentidos aumentados en humanos, tanto el aumento visual como la háptica y la audición.