Manuel Bortuzzo is our Person of the Year

Authentic and therefore bright, like a mirror capable of externally reflecting one’s inner beauty, making it a gift to this mad world where emptiness has taken the place of substance, selfishness has replaced common sense and social networks have suppressed much of our desire to be together. Athlete, friend, boyfriend, son, boy. This is Manuel […]

The Trump Method

What do Trump and Totti have in common? As a matter of facts, nothing. All the more reasons, as a romanist and a Totti fan, I know well that for many people this comparison will border on blasphemy, but still. Remember the “I purged you again” that the Captain turned to Lazio fans after winning […]

Losers before making it big

Look at this picture: if you didn’t know that this is Mark Zuckerberg, you would think: “who’s this loser?” Kitsch plastic slippers, baggy jeans, sitting on a hub between a box and a photocopier, with an expression that conveys everything but charisma and self-confidence on his face; the classic nerd, who would have certainly been […]

Derrick de Kerckhove: «In the future the news will read us»

Derrick de Kerckhove (Wanze, may 30th 1944) is a Canadian-naturalized Belgium-born sociologist and journalist. Sociologist, journalist and scientific director of Media Duemila, he directed the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology of the University of Toronto from 1983 to 2008. He is the author of “The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence” and University Professor […]

Ten questions about the future of news

Ten questions to think about the present and try to preconize the future of journalism. We worked on them together with Guido Giraudo, we reasoned with the aim of opening a door on a clearer horizon about how news is first written, then provided and, finally, consumed by the readers. This issue is anything but […]

Alex Anderson interviews Edward Snowden

by Alex Anderson MOSCOW – Money, work, freedom: he gave up everything to tell us that Orwell was right, even though we live in reality and not in the pages of a novel. We are all intercepted. Thanks to him, Obama admitted it, and before ending his presidency, he signed a bill to extend the […]

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