[document in english] An essay about harmful contents in media, including suggested solutions, written for the European Media and Communication Policies Course.

[document in english] Critical comment on an article of Stephen Coleman.

[document in english] Presentation outlining my ideas for a future society. Pictures are taken from DeviantART. Rights belonging to the respective owners.

[document in english] This is the report on the course Creating a Webmagazine, where I was working as a Tutor. Also, the document includes suggestions on how to improve the course in the next years.

[document in english] PDF slides from the presentation held at the University of Helsinki for the course Creating a Webmagazine. The legendary game studies webmagazine Ring has been used as example experience of editorial dynamics.

[document in italian] Online Worlds and Communities, Analysis and Evolution Perspectives is focusing on the relation between the “real” world and the online world, and its social impact. Many basic questions are analysed: what is pushing people in spending time online? What are they doing there? How this modify their habits and what kind of new phenomena are emerging from this? What implies living in virtual worlds and what kind of society are online communities? How do they try to reproduce a real world environment? How does virtual economy works, and are common rules still valid? Is politics involved in setting rules for this “virtualization process” and why? Are identity and sexuality affected by the passage from reality to virtuality and how? And, most of all, is the distinction between “real” and “virtual” still making any sense? The thesis discuss all these topics highlighting pertinent technical, ethical and regulation issues that will be dramatically relevant in the next years, discussing also the structure of a well known community (DeviantART) and the reason behind its success.

[document in italian] An analysis of the two bigger newspapers in Italy in the last 10 days before elections, with armageddon approaching...

[document in spanish] A comment on the way elections were held in Italy during 2006 from the perspective of international newspapers and observers.

[document in english] The issue of surveillance society is, as David Lyon claims, “of sociological interest because it contributes to the very ordering of society. And thus the other face of surveillance arises from its capacity to reinforce social and economic divisions [...] Those surveillance capacities are used to sort and sift populations, to categorize and classify, to enhance the life chances of some and to retard those of others”. What is then the reason of all this surveillance? Government and companies have the right to do this, hiding behind the excuses of “security” and “efficiency”? Why and when surveillance is not only useful, but necessary to maintain the social order? Last but not least, where is all this information going? Where is it stored, and what will happen to it in some years from now? Can we really manage such an enormous flow of information? Let’s see...

[document in english] A group analysis of the website of Barilla and suggestions on the way to redisign it to maximize the impact on users.