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The reign of TV in Italy: a conversation with Guido Scorza
Out of all the European countries, Italy has the lowest broadband penetration rate and the lowest number of people with internet access. The digital divide contributes to a wide gap between two parts...
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Feminism and Revolutions: the Women of Cairo
Basta Berlusconi ! On Sunday, February 13, thousands of Italians took to the streets to protest against their Prime Minister, whose male chauvinism reduces women to mere sex objects. This demonstration...
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[APP] Fortress Europe: a deadly exodus
More than 5,000 refugees arrived in Lampedusa (an island situated between Malta and Tunisia) since the beginning of the year. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the...
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Berlusconi wants to cut off “the ears of Justice”
It’s official: Silvio Berlusconi no longer has a cell phone. On February 28, he explained his reasoning to his political party, The People of Freedom: Be aware that your prime minister no longer has...
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Japan earthquake shakes Italian media
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 also shook major Italian media outlets as readers accused them of sensationalism and lack of professionalism. Many TV and newspaper reporters...
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Introducing the European School of Social Imagination
When it comes to imagination and its social implications, both empowering and dangerous, few are as experienced as Franco “Bifo” Berardi. As a media activist, the Italian philosopher and agitator was...
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Is there life after the Rosarno riots?
On January 7, 2010 in Rosario, Italy, several shots were fired with air rifles at three Africans who were returning from their work on the farms. The rumor soon spread among the immigrants that some of...
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Richard Stallman Urges Rejection of Anti-Piracy Web Blocking
Under Italian government legislation, telecommunications agency AGCOM will have to take responsibility for dealing with Internet content deemed illicit by entertainment companies. To that end, AGCOM is...
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E-government in Italy: A race against time
Anyone who has ever lived in Italy knows the situation: paying bills, making a cash deposit or sending a parcel at the post office can often take up to one hour in overcrowded offices where arguments...
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After the Rosarno riots, migrants’ activism spreads online
Mahmoud was just 23 years old when he was rushed to the hospital. He complained of strong chest pains and his skin was turning purple: all symptoms of incipient frostbite. A doctor provided him with...
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Chinese dissidents “strolling” toward democracy, online and off
Student protester arrested at a "strolling" action in Shanghai. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. built movements strong enough to confront hostile, often violent governments. While the world reveres...
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