Despite the advent of digital terrestrial technology, Italian television is still dominated by the so called “duopoly” between the public service broadcaster RAI and the privately owned broadcasting giant Mediaset. This situation partially results from the way digital frequencies have been allocated, … Continue reading
What are the most used media in Italy, and where do Italians mostly get information?Notwithstanding the penetration of the internet and the new ways young people search for information, recent data shows that the Italian media landscape is still dominated by television. … Continue reading
What are the most used media in Italy, and where do Italians mostly get information? Notwithstanding the penetration of the internet and the new ways young people search for information, recent data shows that the Italian media landscape is still dominated by … Continue reading
New policy brief on media plurality, co-authored with Rachel Craufurd Smith and Damian Tambini, published online by the LSE: Craufurd Smith, Rachel, Tambini, Damian and Morisi, Davide (2012) Regulating media plurality and media power in the 21st century. Media policy brief, 7. The London School of … Continue reading
With recent changes in its top management, Italy’s state broadcaster, RAI, has come back into the spotlight. As usual, discussions revolve around appointments and their political dependence. But how does the Italian state television work, and who is in charge … Continue reading
With recent changes in its top management, Italy’s state broadcaster, RAI, has come back into the spotlight. As usual, discussions revolve around appointments and their political dependence. But how does the Italian state television work, and who is in charge … Continue reading
My dissertation on “Measuring media pluralism in the convergence era. The case of News Corporation’s proposed aquisition of British Sky Broadcasting” has been published among the best dissertations of the Media and Communication Department of the London School of Economics. … Continue reading
La mia risposta alla consultazione pubblica sulla neutralità della rete, indetta dalla Agcom nell’aprile 2010, è stata di recente pubblicata sul sito dell’Autorità, fra i contributi degli stakeholder. Il mio contributo analizza in particolare le problematiche legate alla privacy, in … Continue reading
It has been more than eight months since Silvio Berlusconi resigned as Italy’s Prime Minister and a government of technocrats stripped international reporting on Italian politics of the burlesque tones that used to characterize his time in office… Read the … Continue reading
Difficile a credersi, eppure dietro a quell’inconfondibile aplomb, a quella freddezza accademica, si cela un professore capace di strappare sorrisi e quasi di commuoversi. “È raro provare un’emozione incontenibile, eppure è quello che mi accade ora”. Esordisce proprio così, Mario … Continue reading