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...

A new global internet agenda following WCIT-2012. A consideration of the many - and complex - issues surrounding the future of telecommunications and the web. Organised by Sky and Limes

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

The ever increasing use of social networks - by institutions, politicians, political parties, ordinary citizens, lobbies, various groups - has multiplied the sources of news in competition with trad...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Men dominate the news headlines and bylines so much that the media has been described by a British MP as an 80/20 society with women in the minority. What’s more, women are far more likely to be p...