Political anomalies and web-based civil antibodies in Silvio Berlusconi's Bel Paese

Navarria, Giovanni ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3697-8874 2008. Political anomalies and web-based civil antibodies in Silvio Berlusconi's Bel Paese. Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi , pp. 173-192.

Preview

PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike. Download (130kB) | Preview

Abstract

Italy’s complex history has produced some remarkable path-breaking experiences and quite a few dangerous anomalies (such as Silvio Berlusconi’s media driven political regime),but it has also made the country the perfect ground for testing experimental antibodies that can contrast such anomalies. One of these antibodies is the web-based civil society orbitingaround the blog Beppegrillo.it. This article argues that the story of such community shows the path to follow for the Italian civil society. Grillo and his fellow bloggers in fact have so far demonstrated that new communication media have the potential to free citizens’ from control and at the same time increase their capacity to keep a close watch on power.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 November 2021
Last Modified:	13 May 2023 01:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145718

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item