Gabriele Balbi
gabrielebalbi.bsky.social
Gabriele Balbi
@gabrielebalbi.bsky.social

Media History Researcher, Prorector for Education at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), Chair @icahdq.bsky.social Communication History Division, Committee Member @acad-euro.bsky.social. More info: http://usi.to/cyi .. more

Communication & Media Studies 22%
Economics 19%

"Toward a media maintenance approach (MEMA): Maintenance as a theoretical tool for media studies” written by @riccardoferrigato.bsky.social and myself

Maintenance is not (only) about technology and can be helpulf to different media scholars. Agree?

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Toward a media maintenance approach (MEMA): Maintenance as a theoretical tool for media studies - Riccardo Ferrigato, Gabriele Balbi, 2025
This paper introduces and discusses a theoretical approach for media scholars: the media maintenance approach (MEMA). Maintenance is not a new subject of study ...
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New publication alert just in time for #ICA25 panels on the "Global Media and Internet Concentration Project" #GMICP

Change and resilience in Swiss newspapers and broadcasting, 2002 and 2022: Towards a critique of media concentration indices

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Reposted by Gabriele Balbi

✍️ sabato 10 maggio, h 18:00, Aula magna,
USI Campus Ovest Lugano

Nell'ambito della giornata di porte aperte UniVerso, USI invita all'aperitivo scientifico con l'astrofisica Edwige Pezzulli e lo storico Jonas Marti moderato dal Prof. @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social

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Da dove veniamo? Ce lo racconteranno Edwige Pezzulli e Jonas Marti
Sabato 10 maggio, sul Campus Ovest dell’Università della Svizzera italiana, si terrà UniVerso, una giornata di porte aperte dedicata al grande pubblico. Un'occasione per scoprire, attraverso attività ...
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Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ?

Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.

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Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s
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Reposted by Gabriele Balbi

Here it is! The Italian companion to Media Studies edited by @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social, @fcomun.bsky.social, @michelesorice.bsky.social and Francesca Pasquali 🤩
Featuring the chapter on Gender and Media Studies written by @fcomun.bsky.social and me

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Hi Steve! We wanna see the syllabus! I also had a compilation for my class in media history! During the break of the lecture "Internet history" we played "WWW mi piaci tu!", an Italian song titled "WWW, I like you" :-) :-) :-) Somehow trash, right?
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Gazosa - WWW.MiPiaciTu (Videoclip Ufficiale)
YouTube video by Sugar Music
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Reposted by Emiliano Treré

Esce “Studiare i media”. 44 autrici e autori di varie università italiane e straniere si confrontano con varie prospettive disciplinari e alcune parole chiave della nostra contemporaneità mediale.

Indice e colleghe e colleghi coinvolti qui: www.carocci.it/prodotto/stu...

It was a pleasure to organize the @ecrea.bsky.social Communication History Workshop “Communication Networks Before and After the Web”, hosted at @cern.bsky.social

More details indico.cern.ch/event/142213...

Founded by @snf-ch.bsky.social

#ECREA #CERN #SNSF #CommunicationHistory #WorldWideWeb