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Gabriele Balbi

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Media History Researcher, Rector ad interim and Prorector for Education at @Usi.ch, Chair @icahdq.bsky.social Communication History Division, Committee Member @acad-euro.bsky.social. More info: http://usi.to/cyi

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Cover of "Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age" edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger

Cover of "Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age" edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger

"Digital Roots: Historicizing #Media and #Communication Concepts of the Digital Age" edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger

#OpenAccess: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

19.09.2025 08:48 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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USI's New Rectorate Team Takes Shape Starting 1 February 2026, the new Rectorate team at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will take office, coordinated by Interim Rector Gabriele Balbi. The new Rectorate brings together establish...

USI's New Rectorate Team Takes Shape
Starting 1 February 2026, the new Rectorate team at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will take office, coordinated by Interim Rector Gabriele Balbi.

www.usi.ch/en/node/34044

20.01.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the book "The Digital Revolution" – A pixelated top and a perspective based grid at the bottom.

The cover of the book "The Digital Revolution" – A pixelated top and a perspective based grid at the bottom.

Maybe a good place to start. _The Digital Revolution:
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

01.01.2026 01:43 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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 ...

"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?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

03.10.2025 09:47 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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

revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co...

@icahdq.bsky.social

16.06.2025 16:41 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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 ...

✍️ 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

www.usi.ch/it/feeds/31738

06.05.2025 08:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s

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.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

03.04.2025 06:17 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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L'USI protagonista del dialogo tra scienza e società con tre nuovi progetti FNS Agora L’Università della Svizzera italiana rafforza il suo impegno nella comunicazione della scienza grazie a tre nuovi progetti finanziati nell’ambito del programma Agora del Fondo nazionale svizzero (FNS)...

Tre nuovi progetti USI, finanziati dal programma Agora del Fondo Nazionale, che promuovono il dialogo tra scienza e società. @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social @robertominelli.com @paolotonella.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social
👉 www.usi.ch/it/feeds/31432

31.03.2025 09:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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

31.03.2025 13:24 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Gazosa - WWW.MiPiaciTu (Videoclip Ufficiale)
Gazosa - WWW.MiPiaciTu (Videoclip Ufficiale) YouTube video by Sugar Music

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?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7V...

26.03.2025 19:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

14.03.2025 08:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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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

14.02.2025 12:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0