The extent of the invisible surveillance enabled by the Internet is spreading like chicken pox in a kindergarten, yet most of us occasional web surfers and social media addicts largely ignore the extent Big Brother is really watching our every move. 

If you thought that Facebook was the only bad guy in town, tracking your every like, share, comment or personal message,  it's about time for you to extend your "paranoia reach" and start connecting the dots. For that's what the web…

One week ago the International Journalism Festival held in Perugia, Italy came to an end. 

The festival, which was organised for the first time in 2007 by journalist Arianna Ciccone and Chris Potter, is an annual miracle for a country like Italy, whose media landscape is sadly known for being state controlled, biased and mainly focused on national…

When some weeks ago I read on Corriere della Sera, one of the main Italian national dailies, that a report about "Generation .0" (the nickname the publication gave to the people in their twenties to make it sound cooler than what it really is) was due to be launched soon, I thought it was…

During a recent visit to Italy last week, I was shocked to realize how much media coverage was dedicated to the apparently unprecedented cold weather hitting the country. 

Even before leaving I was warned by friends and family that this was to be "the worst winter since 1985" but I could not anticipate that the national television channels would literally be monopolized by alarmist talks about snow storms, frost, Siberian temperatures and all sorts of weather related apocalyptic…