D'Arma, Alessandro
E-mail: A.Darma02@westminster.ac.uk
Phone: 02079115000 ext. 4335
Alessandro is Lecturer in Media Industry and Media Policy. He joined CAMRI as a post-doctoral researcher in October 2007 working on an AHRC-funded research project on ‘The Production Ecology of Pre-School Television in Britain’ with Prof. Jeanette Steemers.
A former researcher for media consultancies, in 2007 he received his PhD with a thesis on ‘Broadcasting Policy in Italy’s Second Republic 1994-2006’. His research interests are in media policy and regulation and in the political economy of media.
Alessandro is Book Reviews Editor of Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture (Intellect, forthcoming, 2009). Until 2008 he was a member of the editorial board of the open access journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), for which he edited a Special Issue on ‘Broadcasting Policy and Globalisation’ (2007).
Forthcoming Publications
(forthcoming/ 2010) ‘Italian Television in the Multichannel Age: Assessing Change and Continuity in Industry Structure, Programming and Consumption’, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 16, No. 2.
(forthcoming/2010) ‘Public Service Media and Children: Serving the Digital Citizens of the Future’, in P. Iosifidis (ed.) Reinventing Public Service Communication: European Broadcasters and Beyond, Palgrave McMillan. Co-authored with J. Steemers.
(forthcoming/2009) ‘Serving Children in Public Service Media’, in G. Lowe and G. Daschman (eds) The Public in Public Service Media, NORDICOM. Co-authored with G. Enli and J. Steemers.
(forthcoming/2009) ‘Policy Interventions, Funding and the Crisis in Advertising’, in J. Steemers Little Kid’s TV: The Changing Production Ecology of Pre-school Television, Palgrave McMillan. Co-authored with J. Steemers.
(forthcoming/2009) ‘Shaping Tomorrow’s Television: Digital Television Policies in Italy 1996-2006’, in M. Ardizzoni and C. Ferrari (eds) Beyond Monopoly: Contemporary Italian Media and Globalization, Rowman&Littlefield.
Publications
(2009) ‘Broadcasting Policy in Italy’s Second Republic: National Politics and European Influences’, Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 769-786.
(2009) ‘Review of Ofcom Policy Investigation: “The Future of Children’s Television Programming”’, Cultural Trends, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 77–82. Co-authored with J. Steemers.
(2007) ‘Editorial’, in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 1-3 (Special Issue on ‘Broadcasting Policy and Globalisation’).
(2007) ‘Le TV Locali e la Questione dell’Accesso al Tempo del Digitale Terrestre’ [Local Television and Access Issues in the Digital Age], in F. Barca (ed.) Le Televisioni Invisibili: Storia ed Economia del Settore Televisivo Locale in Italia, Rome: RAI Eri.
(2004) ‘Le Televisioni Locali’ [Local Television], , in C. Bodo and C. Spada (eds), Rapporto sull'Economia della Cultura in Italia 1990-2000 [Report on the Economics of Cultural Industries in Italy 1990-2000], Bologna: Il Mulino, pp. 543-553. Co-authored with F. Barca.
Selected Conference Papers
(2009) ‘Digital Terrestrial Television in Italy Five Years On: Information Society Discourse, Market Realities’, 59th ICA Annual Conference ‘Keywords in Communication’, 21-25 May 2009.
(2008) ‘Broadcasting Policy in Italy’s Second Republic: National Politics and European Influences’, 2nd European Communication Conference (ECREA), Barcelona (Spain), 25-28 November 2008.
(2008) ‘Broadcasting Policy in post-1994 Italy: Domestic Politics and European Influences’, The Association of the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) 2008 Annual Conference ‘The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges’, Stirling (UK), 21-22 November 2008.
(2008) ‘Children’s Television: The Soft Underbelly of Public Service Broadcasting’, Ripe@2008 Conference, Mainz (Germany) 8-11 October 2008. With J. Steemers.
(2007) ‘Digital Switchover in Italy: An Analysis of Government Policy 1996-2006’, 57th ICA Annual Conference, Communication Law & Policy Division, 24-29 May 2007.
(2005) ‘Digital Terrestrial Television in Italy’, 7th World Media Economics Conference, Beijing (China), 14-18 November 2005. With F. Barca and A. Marzulli.