Geert Lovink will be in our bookshop!
The author will be meeting readers and signing his book "The abyss of social media"
Thu 06
17:30 - 18:00
Weave
The brotherhood of bones
Paola Alberti talks to Paolo Roversi. In collaboration with the Feltrinelli bookshop
Sat 08
18:00 - 19:00
The journalist and hacker Enrico Radeschi, the main hero of four previous novels, is back in Confraternita delle Ossa (The Brotherhood of the Bones), the prequel to them all, which follows Radeschi as he makes his first steps as a hacker in Milan. He doesn’t know it yet but great obstacles await!
Terremotocentroitalia.info (Earthquake in central Italy)
Civic hacking as a means of managing information in times of crisis
Sat 08
18:30 - 19:00
Terremotocentroitalia is a project that was instigated following the earthquake of the 24th of August by the Italian civic hacking community. Its aim is to record and compound important data regarding the earthquake and disseminate it among the aid-workers operating on the ground. The project has united dozens of activists from various walks of life. […]
State hush-ups
Stories of denied transparency and of citizens who don’t give up
Sun 09
18:00 - 19:00
How much has the mayor spent in travel expenses and who did he dine with? How safe is my school? How polluted is the air in my part of town?… None of these questions regard state secrets but, until today, access to this information has been denied to citizens, associations and journalists. Now, this situation […]
Bartali’s demons
Ginettaccio’s story told by the cyclists who rode beside, against and mostly, behind him
Sat 08
19:00 - 20:00
Memories, details and feelings about one of the most beloved Italian sports figures of all times. A book full of grand prix races, mountains, hotel rooms, dirt roads and vintage bikes.
The sea before me
The Story of Tsegehans Weldeslassie
Sat 08
17:00 - 18:00
Tsegehans Weldeslassie, Ziggy for his friends, was born in 1980 in Asmara. After university, like all people his age in Eritrea he is sent to a military camp. He has no choice as under the dictatorship in place, being sent to military camp is compulsory and no-one knows for how long they get sent. Ziggy […]
Steeling your job
Computers and the internet are taking away our jobs
Fri 07
18:00 - 18:40
Computers and the internet are taking away our jobs. Yesterday technology stole all the blue-collar jobs, and today the same is happening to white-collar ones. What next?
The internet and business reputation
A company’s reputation is one of its most precious assets. What are the best ways of protecting it?
Sun 09
17:40 - 18:30
A company’s reputation is one of its most precious assets. What are the best ways of protecting it?
Diorama
The endless screens of contemporary post entertainment
Sun 09
17:00 - 17:40
In the beginning there was the screen. Then the screen exploded, into an infinite myriad of screens. Man became an electric entity, the mind could branch off anywhere. This is the Diorama: a story told by images, text and memes from the age of contemporary post entertainment.
La Crusca has joined social networks!
The academy’s Facebook and Twitter outposts
Fri 07
16:40 - 17:20
A look back into La Crusca’s venture into social media, from its debut in 2012 up to now, without forgetting the “petaloso” fracas.
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