I get some emails from students every day – students from my own universities of course but even outside them – asking for resources, responses to questions, or “please send me all the information you have about (…)”.

Because it is unfortunately not possible to respond to all these emails (from outside my own universities I mean) and to keep up with my other work and duties, I offer you few pages of this website to point you in the direction of resources that I provide online which should, hopefully, be helpful to you.

You can find many of my ideas and point of view in my published (offline or online) material, in which usually the different topics are dealed in more detail than in an email or a short interview.

Anyway, for a direct contact you can freely use the forms you find HERE

Best wishes for your studies.


My official courses at LUISS are available here

Political Communication Lab

The official website of the international research network on political communication


La Democrazia

Italian website on political communication


Compol

Italian scientific magazine on political communication

Media Effects

The idea that people might imitate behaviour they have seen in the mass media is strongly diffused. It has had a great success among many scholars, even if  the model is often based on studies with misapplied methodology and is not grounded in theory. The reasons why are a lot. Here you can find an article by David Gauntlett (in his website) about “Ten things wrong with the media ‘effects’ model”. I agree with Gauntlett’s analysis; so, please, read it.

Ten things wrong with the media effects model

Media and Communication Studies. Keywords

The Aberystwyth University online resources about media.
Click here for MCS site

Top tips for Media Students

By David Gauntlett
Click here

Portale italiano dell'analisi qualitativa

Click here

Sociologica

Italian Journal of Sociology on line
Click here


Observatorio
Research and Knowledge in Communication
Journal on line. Click here

Participations

Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
Click here

Sociological Research Online

Online Journal managed by a consortium of the University of Surrey, the University of Stirling, the British Sociological Association and SAGE Publications Ltd
Click here


Sociosite

Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam
Click here


Sociological Abstract

Database
Click here


Eurostat

European Commission Database
Click here


ISTAT

Data Bank and Information Systems
Click here

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to be continued

This new series is intended to:

Present high quality research and writing (including research in-progress) to a wide audience of academics, policy-makers and commercial/media organisations.
Set the agenda in the broad field of media and communication studies.
Stimulate and inform debate and policy.
Bridging different fields of communication studies




Editorial Board

Series Editor: Prof. Michele Sorice
Series Deputy Editors: Prof. Emiliana De Blasio and Prof. Paolo Peverini

Scientific Board

Prof. Paolo Fabbri
Prof. David Forgacs
Prof. Guido Gili
Prof. Matthew Hibberd
Prof. Bruno Sanguanini
Prof. Philip Schlesinger
Prof. Dario Edoardo Viganò

Published CMCS WP

01/2009 – De Blasio, E., Sorice, M., Cultural Studies in Italy and the Influence of Gramsci, Catholic Culture and the “Birmingham School” (CCCS)

02/2009 – Sorice, M., Mobile Audiences. Methodological Problems and New Perspectives in Audience Studies
03/2009 - Peverini, P., Il libro nel labirinto intermediale
01/2010 - De Blasio, E. (with Sorice, M.), Italian Politics in the Web 2.0
02/2010 - Giomi, E., Il “familismo morale”. Pubblico e privato nelle rappresentazioni della fiction poliziesca italiana
03/2010 - Gentile, F. D., Democrazia e partecipazione. Le primarie del Partito Democratico
04/2010 - Schlesinger, P., I valori della ricerca universitaria e le politiche culturali
05/2010 - Russo, G., Creatività unconventional per nuovi indiani metropolitani
01/2011 - Schlesinger, P., Sorice, M., The Transformation of Society and Public Service Broadcasting

02/2011 – Pili, E., La costruzione dell’identità di partito. Il New Labour, il Pd
03/2011- De Blasio, E., Hibberd., M., Sorice, M. (eds) Leadership and New Trends in Political Communication. Selected Papers
04/2011 - Trino, N., Le sfide della partecipazione. Le elezioni primarie nel sistema italiano. Uno studio di genere
05/2011 - De Blasio, E., Hibberd, M., Sorice, M., Popular politics, populism and the leaders. Access without participation? The cases of Italy and UK (available also in the iBookstore)

(click the WP number to read the paper)

 

Only some articles (scientific and not) about different topics. And even some old books no more distributed or out of print. To download, freely.


Articles
 

Alla ricerca dell’audience perduta
Audience. Economia della cultura, XVII, n.3, 2007

Comments on Richeri. Scanning the horizon, breaking the frames
Comment on Richeri. Studies in Communication Sciences, 7, 2, 2007

La comunicazione dal basso
Audience. Storia e Società, a. VIII, 2006

Il Grande Fratello alla prova del format
Format 1. Dialoghi, 7, 1, 2007

Reality? Fuori dalla realtà
Format 2. Rinascita. 3 maggio 2007

Cinquant’anni di “Mamma Rai”
Storia della tv. Letture, a. 59, n. 610, 2004

Sempre sintonizzata sulla storia d’Italia. Dal regime fascista alle radio private
Storia della radio. Letture, a. 59, n. 603, 2004

Una vita non basta
Second Life. La Nuova Ecologia, luglio-agosto 2007



Old Books

Logiche dell’illogico. Introduzione alle teorie del consumo (1995)
Download here

L’industria culturale in Italia (1998)
Download here

Lo specchio magico. Linguaggi, formati, generi, pubblici della televisione italiana (2002)
Download here