Broadcasters now actively choose handheld video footage from local witnesses over the perfect edits of professionals.Why? Because viewers reckon it feels more real, and therefore more 'true'. It's a...

The presentation of Articolo36, a new publication with a simple and straightforward editorial focus: to defend the right of every worker (young journalists included) not to have to work gratis. In t...

The information industry has an important indicator of the level of actual involvement of the reader through a check of the amount of time spent on a newspaper website. The implementation of techniq...

The presentation of an in-depth analysis of how Italian newspapers use Facebook and Twitter.

Is there still viable space in the media landscape for that emblem of 20th century communication the wireless (also known as the radio)? Some examples of how radio and social media can mesh smoothly...

As print revenues and circulations fall, media groups are looking for alternative revenue streams to safeguard their future. One of the most popular is the desire to build communities of interest am...

Watchdoggers are digitized videomakers armed with semi-professional cameras. They inform us about what happens next door, denounce what does not work, create a direct line between citizens and local...

It’s hard enough trying to figure out what’s really going on in Western economies, despite the plethora of statistics and information of every conceivable kind to hand. When it comes to analysin...

How is cyberactivism evolving, from Anonymous to other groups that use the Internet to defend freedom of expression and the free circulation of information? What is the role of leaking in this scena...

The democracy and freedom dreamed of so recently by the young protestors in Tunis and in Tahrir Square is a rapidly fading memory. In Syria the massacres continue, Libia Tunisia and Egypt are once a...