How does the Italian media in general deal with the LGBT issue? What, if any, are the differences between LGBT media treatment in Italy and in other European countries? And to what degree does the w...

Italia 2013 was set up to be a month-long experiment in analysing the first (in February 2013) national social-media-based election campaign. But from the experiment emerged the ebook Social Winner ...

The evolution of the first Italian generation of webdocs between surveys and new cross-media languages. A foray into the world of interactive web documentaries starting from the story of InsideCarce...

Recent Italian court judgments – including the case of Alessandro Sallusti, the editor of the Italian daily Il Giornale – have highlighted the importance of the issue of online libel and defamat...

“User generated content” is now firmly established as a central part of the newsgathering process. News breaks, and rumours spread, at the speed of Twitter. Social media is increasingly becoming...

Presentation by Steve Buttry, introduction by Marina Petrillo. With the drive for more content, aggregation reigns. But when are you aggregating too fast, too much or too close to the original stor...

Journalists and communications professionals use the same tools and share the same skills; the ability to communicate on social networks, producing content, knowing how to manage the digital, having...

Mutually exclusive or mutually enhancing? Or neither? The professionals and the others in the realm of news.

OONI is a project which aims to collect information about the reality of Internet censorship in the world. Measurements are made using open methodologies and free software. The data collected is mad...

How best can charitable organisations such as UNICEF cut through the frivolity and incessant background chatter which so dominate the media seascape to get their message across? Organised in associat...