italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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SESSION #15 -- Title: Informed Dissent: Forms of Political Engagement in the Information Age
Description: This panel aims to discuss new forms of engagement present on the Italian web today, and their importance in a situation in which media journalism has been increasingly co-opted by institutional power. In what way are the blogs of Beppe Grillo, Jacopo Fo, Franca Rame, Marco Travaglio, Sabina Guzzanti, and independent media portals like Nazione Indiana, Zabrinsky Point, Articolo 21 new forms of resistance to the status quo? In what way can they be perceived as new forms of engagement? What is the potential and/or limitation of such resistance?
SESSION #16 -- Title: The Medium in the Message: Literature in the Age of Television
Description: This panel aims to address changes that Italian literature has incurred due to the rise of television as dominant media. More specifically, this session examines the new lexicon of literature of and about television, the new set of myths and new terms of experience and subjectivity that arise from it. Particular attention will be given to literature from the 1980s to the present.
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