THE PROJECT

WP4
The Disinformation Diaries: Living Library of Digital Misuse

Within ELECTRA, Nuovo Circondario Imolese is responsible for the fourth Work Package (WP4), entitled The Disinformation Diaries – Living Library of Digital Misuse, taking place in Imola and Casalfiumanese in October 2026.

WP4 approaches disinformation from an educational and participatory perspective: starting from people's experiences to better understand our relationship with information.

Every day, we read news, watch videos, receive messages and encounter opinions and content selected and shared by other people or digital platforms. Some information is something we actively search for. Other information is suggested to us by search engines, social networks and recommendation systems. Still more reaches us through friends, relatives, groups and communities.

Understanding information means asking more than whether it is true or false. We also need to consider who produces it, how it is presented, through which environments it circulates, why it attracts our attention and what effects it may have on people and collective life.

This is the perspective behind The Disinformation Diaries.

A Living Library for Listening and Dialogue

At the heart of WP4 is the Living Library: a participatory experience in which people become “living books”, sharing stories, memories, experiences and perspectives. Those taking part as readers do more than listen: they can ask questions, explore different viewpoints and reflect together.

Within ELECTRA, the Living Library becomes a space for dialogue about information, trust, disinformation and digital citizenship.

On 21 October 2026, in Casalfiumanese, students, young people, older adults, local citizens and participants from the European partnership will come together for an experience of intergenerational and intercultural listening and exchange.

The aim is not to identify who has the right answers, but to create opportunities for different experiences to help us ask better questions.

The Disinformation Diaries — A Civic Digital Archive

From Individual Stories to Shared Knowledge

Alongside the Living Library, The Disinformation Diaries – Civic Digital Archive on Misinformation is being developed as an online space dedicated to collecting and sharing testimonies, reflections, practices and questions.

The Archive is not intended to be simply a catalogue of false news.

It brings together experiences that help us examine how we encounter information, how we interpret what we see and how content, communication tools, behaviours and democratic participation are connected. A news story received in a group chat, an image shared without context, an online search leading to unexpected results, an intergenerational conversation or an experience of civic participation can all become opportunities for collective learning. 

The Archive grows out of the local participatory journey and contributions from the international partnership, with the aim of making this shared knowledge accessible beyond the face-to-face event.

Its content is organised in Italian, English and French, encouraging exchange and dialogue among communities from different countries.

A European Project Rooted in the Local Community

The Italian activities of WP4 are promoted by Nuovo Circondario Imolese, with the involvement of the Municipality of Casalfiumanese and the support of Officina Immaginata SCS in educational design, participatory workshops, contribution collection and the development of the Civic Digital Archive.

The initiative connects the local and European dimensions: experiences collected within communities in the Imola area become part of a broader reflection on the relationship between information and democracy.

Because a more aware community is not only one that can recognise disinformation, but also one that can listen, question, exchange perspectives and participate.