Enhancing data literacy through digital competences and ethics of communication during pandemic. Some reflections from lifelong learning perspective

This volume stems from papers presented at the mid-term conference of the Education Section of the AIS (Italian Association of Sociology), held in Palermo, Italy, on April 12-14, 2023. Under the theme Education as Commons: Democratic Values, Social Justice, and Inclusion in Education, the conference inspired a call for extended contributions to capture key insights shared there. Reflecting the conference's pluralistic approach, the volume includes sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives, with both theoretical and empirical contributions that employ a range of methods—from qualitative to quantitative and mixed—and languages. This multidisciplinary analysis focuses on the ethics of data communication in post-Covid-19 emergency contexts, exploring the enhancement of digital competence in a lifelong learning perspective through DigComp 2.2 framework. During the pandemic, the infodemic emphasized the crucial importance of digital literacy in mitigating misinfor-mation and disinformation. The authors propose some interdisciplinary reflections based on ethical, digital and data literacy approaches.