The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges

Study of Modern Italy conference

The Association of the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
2008 Annual Conference
In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, the Stirling Media Research Institute, the National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh

The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
21-22 November 2008
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh


FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2008
Keynote I
David Forgacs: Notes and queries for a history of the media in Italy

• Emiliana De Blasio: Mobility and Social Networking between Involvement and Participation
• Marta Cola: Media diets in comparison: Italians and Italian-speaking Swiss media consumption.
• Guy Puzey: Italian Political Identity on the Internet: Into the Age of Web 2.0

• Federico Ruozzi: Italian public television, Christian Democracy party and the Second Vatican Council: who influences who?
• Maria Way: Church and State: Broadcasting – a game of two halves with moveable goal posts.
• Niamh Cullen: 2001, l’anno gobettiano: Piero Gobetti and the legacy of Resistance in the Italian media
• Andrea Hajek: E se il ’68 fosse (anche) di destra? Media and identity formation: rereading the protest movement of 1968 from the right.

• Elizabeth Fraller: Cinegiornali LUCE: The Construction and Destruction of Reality in Fascist Newsreel
• Elisabetta Cassina Wolff: Freedom of Expression and Fascist Ideology in Post-War Italy
• Davide Gherardi: Italian Natural Beauties and Propaganda. The Case of Cinematographic "Dal Vero" in Italian Nationalism During the 1910s
• Luciano Cheles: Camerata Fini. The Visual Propaganda of Alleanza Nazionale (1995-2008)

• Enrico Menduni: The Shallow Threshold - Italian Radio Broadcasting in the Berlusconi Era
• Simona Biancalana: Location Placement and stereotypes, keys for the sale of Italian audiovisual products abroad
• Gabriele Balbi and Benedetta Prario: The Mediaset strategies in the digital era: from television company to media and telecommunication company
• Flavia Barca and Andrea Marzulli: The Policy on Television Production in Italy: the Devil in the Details...

SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2008

• Rinella Cere: Anti-immigrant and hate discourses in Italian news media
• Isabel Crowhurst: The racialized construction of the ‘foreign prostitute’ in the anti-immigration political propaganda of the Northern League
• Eugénie Saitta: Ethnic Minorities and the Media in Italy. From Representation to Participation
• CT Lee & CJP Lee: Italy’s Anathematisation of the Other: immigration, ethnicity and race in contemporary Italian media – a comparative approach.

• Gabriele Cosentino: From the ‘historical compromise’ to uncompromising politics. The transformations of political communications on Italian television in the period 1974-1989.
• Alessandro D’Arma: Broadcasting Policy in post-1994 Italy: Domestic Politics and European Influences
• Rosario Cecaro: Where Sardinia Leads … How and how far Sardinia became a testing ground for developments in Italy’s communication and publishing sector

• Chris Hanretty: Against Pluralism, or the failure of regulatory norms for journalism in Italian public service broadcasting
• Marta Perrotta: Convergence or resistance? On relationships between and RAI and TV production companies

Keynote II and III
Giuseppe Richeri: Un' analisi critica dell'evoluzione economica del mercato dei mass media
Fausto Colombo: Boom. Storia di quelli che non hanno fatto il 68.

• Clodagh Brook: Resisting Berlusconi? Nanni Moretti and Italian Cinema in the Berlusconi Years
• Jean Pierre Candeloro and Marco Cucco: Cinema, Television and the Medea’s Myth. European Trends and Italian Anomalies in Feature Film Broadcasting
• Damiano Razzoli: Cinema and migration in Italy. Being here, being there, experiencing the threshold of the otherness: discourses and figures of immigration in Italian filmography

• Elisa Giomi: No conflict of interests. Public and Private in the Narratives of Italian TV Crime Series
• Dana Renga: Marketing the Mob: From the Corleonesi to the Camorra

• Pauline Small: Lo schermo di carta: photo-romances and cine-romances in the 1950s.
• Kate Mitchell: Towards a New Model of Womanhood at the fin-de-siècle: Neera’s Contributions to Journals for Women
• Catharine Rossi: The ‘Mediterranean Megaphone’: Domus and the Promotion and Production of Design in Italy’s Post-War Reconstruction, 1945 – 1954

• Saverio Battente: Stampa e cultura tra identità nazionale modernizzazione: il caso del nazionalismo italiano
• Orsetta Innocenti: A Media Family Album: Italy Between History and Representation

The Association of Modern Italy

LX 2.0 - Les Liens Invisibles

*"The world is my idea": this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.

Arthur Schopenhauer from "The world as will and representation"*

Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world as a geometric ensemble of measurable points, lines, areas and data-labels on a plane.
While the world slowly fades away in an increasingly multiplication of self-representations, the map making process - missing its real reference -becomes nothing more than an empty-meaning abstract practice: so, what do all those maps stand now for?

In order to disclose this contradiction - or just to give a paradoxical point of view about it - the imaginary art-group *Les Liens Invisibles* has explored the world along its self-referential techno-linguistic layers, moving through its hidden mechanisms and forcing the grammar of its public-released API code.

Commissioned by *LX 2.0* - a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporenea and curated by Luis Silva - *Google Is Not The Map (GISNTM)* is a collection of over 35 *GeoPoeMaps*, a series of works in which ordinary maps become the unusual surfaces used to disarticulate the perception of the world, to trace new routes across the boundaries and to draw new imaginary geometries of the possible.

*Les Liens Invisibles* ( http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/ /) is an imaginary art group from Italy. It is comprised of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their artworks are based on the invisible links between the infosphere, neural synapsis and real life.

Links and routes to nowhere
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Google is not the map
> http://google.isnotthemap.net/

A map is not the map
> http://map.isnotthemap.net/ (for credits, info and linear maps index)

Poetry is not the map
> http://poetry.isnotthemap.net/ (for silly poems about map statements)

Press is not the map
> http://press.isnotthemap.net/ (pr ess area)

Contact is not the map
> http://contact.isnotthemap.net/ (contact area)


Credits
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A project by Les Liens Invisibles
> http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/

Commissioned by LX 2.0, a project by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea

SUPERTOYS

The Supertoys exhibition and events programme at Arnolfini explores toys, affective machines, and play. Artists, technologists, children and adults examine how toys operate as 'transitional objects' in allowing feelings to be carried between the human subject and external objects. The exhibition also explores the idea of reciprocal relationships with intelligent toys and robots, and our related hopes and fears. In the science of Artificial Intelligence a basic question remains: will we succeed in building robots that think and feel like we do? This in turn raises questions about the nature of emotion and whether we can replicate human affect in machines, or whether robots can develop their own 'feelings' independently.

Featuring work by Codemanipulator, Chris Cunningham, Dunne & Raby, Natalie Jeremijenko, Kahve Society, Alex McLean, Philippe Parreno, Unmask Group, and guest robots (Swarm Systems and Heart Robot). Exhibition design in collaboration with nOffice.

SUPERTOYS

CivilMedia08

Civilmedia 08
Cultures – Participation – Dialogue
Salzburg, December 4th – 6th, 2008

The Civilmedia will be a landmark at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008”.
In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, we will review the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe.

CivilMedia08

vienna art week 08

During the viennaartweek from November 17 to 23, Vienna becomes a meeting point for international art insiders and interested public alike. Experts such as Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans-Ulrich Obrist from Serpentine Gallery in London, designer Alfredo Häberli from Switzerland or Sir Norman Rosenthal, former employee at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, discuss – amongst other topics - the future of the museum and the connection of art and design market in top-class panels.

viennaartweek 08

"vienna art week": Sieben kunstvolle Tage « DiePresse.com

28ª Bienal de São Paulo

The curatorial team of the 28th Bienal hopes to offer all of the Bienal de São Paulo’s target audiences the possibility for a moment of reflection based on a range of inputs for their knowledge and understanding of the institution and of the exhibition model it represents. The aim is to foster an analysis of its current condition, experiment different processes of producing the event, and search for alternative formats of art exhibition. The objective is to respond to the demands and challenges that present themselves to the institution in the 21st century and to place the Bienal de São Paulo once more “in living contact” with its history, its city, its peers, and its age.

28ª Bienal de São Paulo

Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical

"Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical is the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an international association for students and scholars in any discipline in the field of of Internet studies."

Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical

La realtà virtuale spiegata al pubblico

La realtà virtuale spiegata al pubblico
L'associazione culturale Italo Calvino di Bologna organizza un ciclo di incontri tematici in cui si affronterà il tema 'Applicazioni informatiche per i beni culturali'. Gli esperti di CINECA e Comune di Bologna racconteranno al pubblico come funziona la realtà virtuale, e come può venire impiegata nei progetti di ricerca nei beni culturali: il 28 novembre alle ore 17.00 all'Urban center, presso la Sala Borsa a Bologna. http://www.cineca.it/news/urbancenter_rv.htm

altri eventi:
Politicamente Scorretto
Ritorna, dal 24 al 30 novembre, Politicamente Scorretto. Per il quarto anno consecutivo il Comune di Casalecchio di Reno, in collaborazione con lo scrittore Carlo Lucarelli, lancia una sfida culturale e civile per non dimenticare i tanti misteri che hanno segnato il nostro Paese. Come ogni anno il CINECA collabora all'iniziativa curando la trasmissione su Internet di alcuni eventi, e quest'anno gestirà anche la videoconferenza di chiusura che metterà in comunicazione la Casa delle Culture di Casalecchio con Polistena, nella Valle del Marro (Calabria).
http://www.cineca.it/news/politica2008.htm

Handimatica2008
Si terrà dal 27 al 29 novembre al Palazzo dei Congressi di Bologna l'edizione 2008 di Handimatica, appuntamento biennale della Fondazione Asphi sulle tecnologie migliorative per persone con disabilità. CINECA si occupa da diversi anni delle tematiche dell'accessibilità, e anche quest'anno parteciperà all'evento presentando la propria esperienza in questo ambito. Si occuperà inoltre dello streaming in diretta degli incontri in programma in Sala Europa.
http://www.cineca.it/news/handymatica2008.htm

Osservatorio ARNO
Il 2 dicembre prossimo si terrà al CINECA il workshop 'Osservatorio ARNO: Esperienze e risultati nel Governo Clinico', destinato a farmacisti dei servizi farmaceutici ASL, clinici appartenenti a società scientifiche e rappresentanti di istituzioni ministeriali e di ricerca. Obiettivo del workshop è illustrare esperienze e risultati raggiunti con l'utilizzo dell'Osservatorio, valutandone anche le prospettive future.
http://www.cineca.it/news/ws_arno.htm

Gestione economica e controllo dei processi nelle amministrazioni universitarie
La nuova soluzione U-GOV Contabilità, che gestisce e integra processi e contabilità finanziaria, economica e analitica, verrà presentata agli atenei il prossimo 3 dicembre nel corso del convegno 'Nuovi percorsi contabili: gestione economica e controllo dei processi in U-GOV'.
http://www.cineca.it/news/ugov_contabilita_2008.htm


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