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e-Petitioning and Representative Democracy: a doomed marriage?, forthcoming, in Aroon Manoharan and Marc Holzer (Ed.) E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy, IGI Global Press.

‘Beppe Grillo, The Talking Cricket’ 2009, in Adrienne Russell and Nabil Echchaibi (eds.), International Blogging, Peter Lang Publishing - Read more about the book here

 ‘A New Technology of Control: E-Government’, 2008, in Vishakha Munshi (ed.) E-Government in Developed Nations: An Insight. ICFAI Press

 

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Journals

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‘Petitioners go online in Tony Blair’s e-Democracy, the case of the 2007 Road Tax battle’, forthcoming, in SSHL Graduate Journal, University of Westminster.

‘Politics vs. Antipolitics in Italy in the age of monitory democracy: the complex case of beppegrillo.it’, 2010, in Erik Amnå (ed.), New forms of citizen participation - Normative implications, European Civil Society Series, Vol. 3, Nomos Verlag; pp. 175-188. (info here)

‘The e-challenge to democracy’, in WZB-Mitteilungen, June 2009, No. 124, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, pp. 24-27.

‘Mob Rule’, 2009, in CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2009, Vol. 16 n. 1 & 2, University of Westminster Press, pp. 24-26

‘Political anomalies and web-based civil antibodies in Silvio Berlusconi’s Bel Paese’, 2009, 'Sociedad civil: una perspectiva crítica’, Recerca – Revista de Pensament i Analisis, n. 8, pp. 171-190

'Byråkratins roll i cyberrymden' (The changing role of bureaucracy in cyberspace), in Ikaros, TEMA: Byråkrat in – en dem okrat isk paradox?, 1/2008. Download article (in swedish) here or backup here; or you can read the english translation here.

‘The Talking Cricket’ in CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2006-07, Vol. 14 No. 1 & 2, University of Westminster Press. Article in pdf here, complete CSD B ulletin here

'The Three Faces of Government in the Age of the Internet and the future of Activism Under Conditions of Shared Weakness', in EastBound , 2006, Vol. 1, Num. 1, pp: 124-152. Budapest University of Technology and Central European University.

'Hacking China', CSD Bulletin, Winter, 2005-06, Vol. 13 No. 1, University of Westminster Press, pp: 15-16.

 

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Magazines and Online Journals

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'A movie Gordon Brown might not like to watch…' a review of Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer published in OpenDemocracy.net 23 April 2010.

The Google factor: Can China advance without the help of foreign IT Firms such as Google?, forthcoming, in China Ethos, Spring Issue. China Media Ltd. Website: http://www.chinaethos.co.uk.

'The Potential Political Implications of Obama's China Visit’, China Ethos, Winter 2009/2010, pp. 16-19. China Media Ltd. Website: http://www.chinaethos.co.uk

'e-Government: “Who controls the controllers?' Thursday Essay published in OpenDemocracy.net. 09 - 02 - 2006. Read it: HTML or PDF.

'The future of dissent: hacking Chinese censorship'. in OpenDemocracy.net. 20 - 10 - 2005. Read it: HTML or PDF

 

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Reviews - from my blog

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Review of Nuit Blanche - in Books, Movies and Other Stuff , 11 April 2010 - read it here

Review of Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, 9 April 2010 - read it here

Review of The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallander Mystery - in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, 5 April 2010 - read it here

Review of Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys - in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, 24 March 2010 - read it here

Review of No country for old man, in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, November 2008 - read it here

Review of 007 Quantum of Solace, in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, November 2008 - read it here

Review of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (Se, jie), in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, 20 January 2008 - read it here

Review of Sydney Lumet's Before the devil knows you’re dead, in Books, Movies and Other Stuff, 20 January 2008 - read it here

 

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Conferences and Research Seminars

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'User-generated politics, lessons learnt from the Downing Street e-Petition Website and the case of the 2007 road-tax battle'. Section: Public Opinion and the Media; Panel: Politics and the Media I - 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference, Universitat Autonòma Barcelona, Barcelona, 25-27 August 2008. The conference is organized by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

'Transparency, accountability and representativeness in the age of blogging: the complex case of beppegrillo.it.' Normative Implications of New Forms of Participation for Democratic Policy Processes, Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Conference on Civil Society, Grythyttan Inn, Sweden, May 8-10, 2008. Organized and funded by Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (www.rj.se), the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence on Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe (www.cinefogo.org), and Örebro University (www.oru.se)

'Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, Downing St. e-petition website and the road tax battle, Beppegrillo.it and his many initiatives: 3 different examples of politics on the web. A comparative study.' Paper delivered to the panel Parties, Elections and Campaigning II, at Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 17-18, 2008. The conference is organized by the New Political Communication Unit, of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'Reflections on e-Government: how the internet is transforming governments relationship with citizens worldwide'. Paper prepared for the PhD course Democracy in Transition. December 3-7, 2007, Roskilde University (RU), Roskilde, Denmark.

‘Reflections on Beppegrillo.it: a successful attempt of innovative and active promotion of political participation through the web’, paper prepared for the Section: Emerging Patterns of Collective Action, Panel: The use of ICTs for innovative forms of participation. ECPR General Conference, Pisa 6-8 September 2007

‘The role of blogging in Italy: The story of Beppegrillo.it’, conference proceedings of Communication Technologies of Empowerment, organised by the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS), The University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom – Friday, May 18, 2007

‘Beppe Grillo, One Year in the Life of an Italian Blogger’, conference proceedings of the EuroBlog International Research Symposium 2007: Social Software: a Revolution for Communication? - Implications and Challenges for Public Relations, Journalism and Marketing. The two-day symposium is organised by EUPRERA, the European Public Relations Research and Education Association in cooperation with Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent. Ghent, Belgium, March 16-17th, 2007

'New strategies of power: a Foucauldian approach on e-Government' conference proceedings of the Information and Communication Symposium to be held at the University of York, 20-22 September 2006. Abstract here.

'Power and activism in the age of the internet', research seminar delivered at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK, 24/07/2006. The seminar was part of the OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2006.

'Political Activism in China in the age of the Internet: Davids vs. Goliath.', conference proceedings of "Modernization, Modernity and the Media in China" organised by the China Media Centre, University of Westminster, 15-16 June 2006, London. Programme here

‘The updated strategy of state' power in the age of networks: e-Government.' Paper delivered at the conference Technology, Performance & Identity: Mediation, Remediation and the Politics of Self . Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College , Department of Arts and Media, 8th annual conference. Friday 28th April 2006 .

The Three Faces of Government in the Age of the Internet and the future of Activism within a condition of shared weakness. Paper presented to the New Media and Democratic Elections panel, in the two-day conference Re-activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism, October 13-15, 2005, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Click here to read an abstract, or to download the paper. Click here to read more about the Conference.

Reinventing Democracy in the Age of the Internet. Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, as part of the CSD Seminar Programme Spring and Summer Terms 2005. 3rd of May, 2005