Alessandro D'Arma
Alessandro D’Arma is Reader in Media and Communication and Director of the CAMRI PhD programme. He holds a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
He is the elected Co-President of the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR – 2021-2024). Previously (2016-2021) he served as Co-Chair of the Public Service Media Policies Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Before pursuing an academic career, Alessandro had worked as a media industry analyst and contributed to numerous consultancy reports.
Research interests and publications
Alessandro’s research interests revolve around communications policy and the political economy of media industries, with a particular focus on issues around public service media, the politics of media policy, and the digital transformation of the media industries.
Alessandro is the author of Media and Politics in Contemporary Italy (Lexington 2015), numerous invited chapters in edited collections and research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Media, Culture and Society, Journal of Information Policy, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Journal of Media Business Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and Journal of Children and the Media
Grants
Between 2019 and 2021, Alessandro was Principal Investigator for an AHRC-funded Research Network on ‘Innovation in Public Service Media (PSM) Policies’ (2019-2020) with Minna Horowitz (U. of Helsinki), a project promoting collaborations between academics and the wider PSM community of stakeholders represented in the network’s Steering Committee which included the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the BBC, the European Broadcasting Union, OfCom, Public Media Alliance, and the Finnish public service broadcaster YLE.
Other academic services
Alessandro is a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College and the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers. He is also the Subject Group Representative for technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
He has served as External Examiner at Royal Holloway University (2017-2021), Montfort University (2016-2020) and Brunel University (2013-2016).
Ph.D. supervision
Alessandro has considerable experience in doctoral supervision. Ph.D. subjects supervised to completion include media entrepreneurship and leadership, online hate speech, and smartphone use among young people.
Alessandro welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students about supervising research projects in his fields of interest, including but not limited to communication policy, media and politics, and media industry studies.
He is the elected Co-President of the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR – 2021-2024). Previously (2016-2021) he served as Co-Chair of the Public Service Media Policies Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Before pursuing an academic career, Alessandro had worked as a media industry analyst and contributed to numerous consultancy reports.
Research interests and publications
Alessandro’s research interests revolve around communications policy and the political economy of media industries, with a particular focus on issues around public service media, the politics of media policy, and the digital transformation of the media industries.
Alessandro is the author of Media and Politics in Contemporary Italy (Lexington 2015), numerous invited chapters in edited collections and research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Media, Culture and Society, Journal of Information Policy, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Journal of Media Business Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and Journal of Children and the Media
Grants
Between 2019 and 2021, Alessandro was Principal Investigator for an AHRC-funded Research Network on ‘Innovation in Public Service Media (PSM) Policies’ (2019-2020) with Minna Horowitz (U. of Helsinki), a project promoting collaborations between academics and the wider PSM community of stakeholders represented in the network’s Steering Committee which included the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the BBC, the European Broadcasting Union, OfCom, Public Media Alliance, and the Finnish public service broadcaster YLE.
Other academic services
Alessandro is a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College and the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers. He is also the Subject Group Representative for technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
He has served as External Examiner at Royal Holloway University (2017-2021), Montfort University (2016-2020) and Brunel University (2013-2016).
Ph.D. supervision
Alessandro has considerable experience in doctoral supervision. Ph.D. subjects supervised to completion include media entrepreneurship and leadership, online hate speech, and smartphone use among young people.
Alessandro welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students about supervising research projects in his fields of interest, including but not limited to communication policy, media and politics, and media industry studies.
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values. We identify seven streams of research, showing how, as a whole, this body of work has highlighted the main tensions and dilemmas that PSM organizations have faced, given their special nature, when engaging with the technological affordances of the Internet. Researchers, however, have also shown how the delivery of public value can be enhanced via PSM’s online services. Arguing for the continued relevance of PSM, they have reasserted traditional values, while also identifying new roles that PSM are called to play in the context of today’s digital communications
understood to encompass new activities performed by a whole host of new online video aggregators, is becoming more layered. The nature and scale of the threats facing incumbent broadcasters, and their strategic responses are discussed.
meet different local circumstances, depending on a variety of connected market, regulatory and cultural factors, and points in particular to the importance of the broader institutional, policy and regulatory context in influencing the programming strategies of transnational players.
Italy, this article argues that emphasis must be placed primarily on the managerial and financial resources that the company has been able to mobilize. The analysis aims at broadening our understanding of how News Corporation operates in different national contexts, and should also prove valuable for the broader question concerning the shifting balance of power between transnational and national actors in today’s globalizing media landscape.
Books by Alessandro D'Arma
values. We identify seven streams of research, showing how, as a whole, this body of work has highlighted the main tensions and dilemmas that PSM organizations have faced, given their special nature, when engaging with the technological affordances of the Internet. Researchers, however, have also shown how the delivery of public value can be enhanced via PSM’s online services. Arguing for the continued relevance of PSM, they have reasserted traditional values, while also identifying new roles that PSM are called to play in the context of today’s digital communications
understood to encompass new activities performed by a whole host of new online video aggregators, is becoming more layered. The nature and scale of the threats facing incumbent broadcasters, and their strategic responses are discussed.
meet different local circumstances, depending on a variety of connected market, regulatory and cultural factors, and points in particular to the importance of the broader institutional, policy and regulatory context in influencing the programming strategies of transnational players.
Italy, this article argues that emphasis must be placed primarily on the managerial and financial resources that the company has been able to mobilize. The analysis aims at broadening our understanding of how News Corporation operates in different national contexts, and should also prove valuable for the broader question concerning the shifting balance of power between transnational and national actors in today’s globalizing media landscape.
Drawing on the literature on comparative European broadcasting policy from social and political science, this thesis examines the ways in which a number of analytically distinct factors – technological change in the shape of digitalisation, the ascendancy of neo-liberalism in Western Europe, EU-level policies, and domestic politics – have interacted with each other and have contributed to shaping broadcasting policy in Italy in these years. The thesis assesses the record in office of the centre-left and centre-right governments and explains the key reasons for policy failure or success.
‘Domestic Politics’, it is argued, remains a key factor that accounts for outcomes in broadcasting policy in Italy’s Second Republic. The analysis in particular shows that the governance of both RAI, the public broadcaster, and AGCom, the communications regulator, has been strongly party politicised in these years. The analysis also reveals the instrumentalisation by the centre-right governments led by Silvio Berlusconi (2001-2006) of industrial and socio-cultural policy goals associated with the transition to digital television to further sectional political and economic interests. Finally, ‘politics’ – referring in this case to Italy’s complex institutional structure of the highly fragmented party-system and executive-legislature relationships – is also a key factor to take into account in order to explain the key failures of the centre-left governments in the area of television policy between 1996 and 2001: both the failure to curb Mediaset’s dominant position in the television market through the enforcement of sector-specific media ownership regulation, and the failure to reform public service broadcasting.