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Massimo Scaglioni | Lead Researcher
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Massimo Scaglioni is the author of several books on media and broadcasting history and industry, including: La televisione nella pandemia. Intrattenimento, fiction, informazione e sport nell’anno del Covid-19. Annuario 2021 (Carocci, Rome 2021); A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation, (Routledge, London and New York 2021, with L. Barra); Cinema Made in Italy. La circolazione internazionale dell’audiovisivo italiano (Carocci, Rome 2020).
Anna Sfardini | Lead Researcher
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Anna Sfardini (PhD) is Assistant Professor and teaches Intercultural Communication and Research Methods on Media Production and Consumption at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. She is Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica), and didactic director of the Master’s course “Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo Comunicazione”. She has published articles and books on topics related to media convergence, with a particular interest in questions of audiences, TV genres, mediatization of politics, TV for Women.
Selected publications
MultiTV. L’esperienza televisiva nell’età della convergenza, with Massimo Scaglioni, Carocci, Rome 2008.
Reality Tv. Pubblici fan, protagonisti, performer, Unicopli, Milan 2009.
Politica pop. Da “Porta a porta” a “L’isola dei famosi”, with G. Mazzoleni, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.
La TV delle donne. Brand, programmi e pubblici, with C. Penati, Unicopli, Milan 2015.
“Tradition and Innovation: Italian Women’s Channels, Factual Entertainment and the Significance of Generation in Women’s Viewing Preferences”, with C. Penati in R. Moseley, H. Wheatley, H. Wood (eds.), Television for Women. New Directions, Routledge, London and New York 2017, pp.167-182.
“La serialità generalista di qualità”, capitolo VIII, in A. Fumagalli, C. Albani, P. Braga (eds.), Storia delle serie TV. Volume I, Dino Audino, Rome 2021, pp. 174-194.
“Mapping European premium-scripted: trends, patterns and data in an emerging EU market”, with D. Holdaway and C. Penati, in L. Barra, M. Scaglioni (eds.), A European Television Fiction Renaissance Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation, Routledge, London and New York 2021, pp. 33-55.
“Le culture del consumo”, in A. Grasso (ed.), Storia della comunicazione e dello spettacolo in Italia. Volume II. I media alla sfida della convergenza (1979-2012), Vita e Pensiero, Milan 2017, pp. 51-58.
Paolo Carelli | Lead Researcher
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Paolo Carelli (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Media Theory at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia and he also teaches TV History in the same university (Milan). He is Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica, Milan) and didactic coordinator of the Master’s course “Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo, Comunicazione” at ALMED – Graduate School of Media Communication and Performing Arts of Università Cattolica.
Selected publications
Il passaggio al 5G e gli effetti sul sistema radio-televisivo locale (with A. Sfardini), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 2020 (Transition to 5G and its effects on local television system).
“Transnational circulation of European TV series. National models and industrial strategies for scripted pay imports/exports” (with D. Garofalo), in Barra, L., Scaglioni, M. (eds.), A European Fiction Renaissance. Television Production Models and Transnational Circulation, Routledge, London and New York 2021, pp. 56-67.
“Pan-Arabism through Television: Arab TV Series between National Identities and Transnational Media”, Comunicazioni Sociali, 2, 2015, pp. 218-229.
“RAI beyond national boundaries: The case of Comunità Radiotelevisiva Italofona/Italophone Broadcasting Community”, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 3, 2015, pp. 171-183
“Italianization Accomplished. Forms and Structures of Albanian Television’s Dependency on Italian Media and Culture”, VIEW – Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3, 2015, pp. 79-87.
Mattia Galli | Researcher
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Mattia Galli is Media Analyst at Ce.R.T.A. – Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. In 2020 he gained a Master’s degree with honors in Media Management at Università Cattolica in Milan; his dissertation focused on the evolution of the scripted format within the contemporary TV system. He has collaborated on several research projects on television production, distribution and broadcasting in Italy and he is currently working on a project aimed to define how mainstream media (TV series, movies, fiction books, video games) shape images of the future in different production contexts.
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