D'Arma, Alessandro
Alessandro D’Arma
Senior Lecturer
E-mail: A.Darma02@westminster.ac.uk
A former industry analyst for media consultancies, Alessandro joined CAMRI in 2007 and is currently Senior Lecturer. His main research areas are media policy and the political economy of media and communication. His work on broadcasting policy in Italy and on children’s television (with Jeanette Steemers) has appeared in books and academic journals (Media, Culture and Society, Convergence, Cultural Trends).
Alessandro is Book Reviews Editor of Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture (Intellect). 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).
Publications
(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,16(2): 201-215.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(2009) ‘Broadcasting Policy in Italy’s Second Republic: National Politics and European Influences’, Media, Culture & Society, 31(5): 769-786.
(2009) ‘Review of Ofcom Policy Investigation: “The Future of Children’s Television Programming”’, Cultural Trends, 18(1): 77–82. Co-authored with J. Steemers.
(2007) ‘Editorial’, in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 4(3): 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
(2010) ‘Localisation Strategies of US-owned Children’s Television Networks in Five European Markets’, EMMA Annual Conference 2010 ‘The Changing Ecology of the Media’, 5-6 February 2010. With Jeanette Steemers
(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.