Research

 MEDITERRANEAN ENCOUNTERS IN THE CITY


The conference “Mediterranean Encounters in the City” will be held 
at the University of Colorado – Boulder on April 15-16, 2011. 









North/South, East/West focuses on the visual and discursive representation of identity promoted by public and private Italian national television at the turn of the twenty-first century. Here, I examine the role of politics, conglomeration, immigration, and satellite technology in framing discourses of gender, ethnic, and regional identities. In a time of social and political change for Italy, characterized by the increased visibility of ethnic minorities and the rise to political power of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's largest media mogul, North/South, East/West provides an in-depth textual analysis of current programs and their vision of identity.





I am the co-editor (with Chiara Ferrari) of an anthology on contemporary Italian media. Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media examines the impact of globalization on contemporary Italian media. By engaging both the production and reception levels of different media, this volume assesses the extent to which Italian media have been part of current trends of media flows and have responded to the centrifugal and centripetal forces of globalization. More specifically, the contributors to this edited volume touch upon issues as diverse as foreign ownership on satellite TV; the effects of digital technology on media policy making; the impact of guerrilla media channels against the thread of globalization; the impact of new media on local administrations; the analysis of international flows in media import, translation, and reformatting; the expansion of Italian public television in foreign markets; the representation of immigrants and immigration in contemporary Italian cinema; and the framing of “Otherness” in the news. This volume was published in December 2009. 
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