“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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
International news reporting is becoming more dangerous than ever before. According to the International Federation of Journalists, more than 120 journalists were deliberately targeted and killed in...
In 2011 and 2012 a wave of protest demonstrations - the largest since the end of the USSR – swept across Russia. Tens of thousands of Russian citizens took to the streets to demand free and fair e...
The Liquid Newsroom, or LNR, is a cloud application, accessible via the Internet, which utilizes the strengths of the real time web: fast news delivery to people connected along the interest graph. ...