!!Gabriele Balbi - Publications
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__Last 5 years main publications, year of reference: 2024__\\
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__BOOKS__\\
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Balbi, G. (2023). The Digital Revolution. A Short History of an Ideology. London: Oxford University Press.\\
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Balbi, G., & Ortoleva, P. (2023). La comunicazione imperfetta. Ostacoli, equivoci, adattamenti. Torino: Einaudi. \\
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Balbi, G. (2022). L’ultima ideologia. Breve storia della rivoluzione digitale. Roma-Bari: Laterza.\\
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Balbi, G., & Magaudda, P. (2021). Media digitali. La storia, i contesti sociali, le narrazioni. Roma-Bari: Laterza. \\
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Balbi, G., & Magaudda, P. (2018). A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective. New York: Routledge.\\
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__ARTICLES__\\
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Magaudda, P., & Balbi, G. (2024) Theorizing failure in digital media. Four eclectic theses. Annals of the International Communication Association, https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2024.2326056 \\
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Balbi, G., Hagedoorn, B., Haydari, N., Schafer, V., & Schwarzenegger, C. (2023). Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization. Studies in Communication Sciences, 23(3), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2023.03.4620\\
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Zhang, Z., Balbi, G., Thussu, D., Winseck, D. & Jiang, F. (2023). Roundtable Discussion of Emerging Technology Companies and Transcultural Challenges. Journal of Transcultural Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtc-2022-0021\\
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Magaudda, P., & Balbi, G. (2023). Pour une théorie de l’échec dans le domaine des médias numériques. Communication, 40(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.17035\\
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Fomasi, M., Barcella, D., Benecchi, E., & Balbi, G. (2023). Genealogy of an Archive. The Birth, Construction, and Development of the World Wide Web Collection at CERN. Internet Histories, 7(3), 277-294, https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2023.2238254. \\
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Bory, P., Lüthi, E., & Balbi, G. (2022). “A story of friendship and misunderstandings“: The origins of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre 1985–1992. Itinera, 49, 141–173.\\
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Bourdon, J., & Balbi, G. (2021). Questioning (Deep) Mediatization: A Historical and Anthropological Critique. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2807–2826.\\
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Rikitianskaia, M., & Balbi, G. (2021). What time is it? History and typology of time signals from the telegraph to the digital. International Journal of Communication, 15, 1513–1530. \\
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Balbi, G., & Leggero, R. (2020). Communication is maintenance: Turning the agenda of media and communication studies upside down. H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 17, 7– 26, https://doi.org/10.1285/i22840753n17p7.\\
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Rikitianskaia, M., & Balbi, G. (2020). Radio studies beyond broadcasting: Towards an intermedia and inter-technological radio history. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18(2), 159–173, https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00022_1. \\
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Negro, G., Balbi, G., & Bory, P. (2020). The path to WeChat: How Tencent’s culture shaped the most popular Chinese app, 1998–2011. Global Media and Communication, 16(2), 208–226, https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520923008. \\
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Schwarzenegger, C., & Balbi, G. (2020). When the ‘Messiah’ went to ‘Mecca’: Envisioning and reporting the digital future at the CeBIT tech fair (1986–2018). Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(4), 716–731, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520909528.\\
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Schwarzenegger, C., Lobinger, K., & Balbi G. (2019). Academic traditions in communication: Expanding the field and redrawing the boundaries. ECREA 2018 special panel report. Studies in Communication Sciences, 19(2), 233–237, https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2019.02.010. \\
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Balbi, G., & Berth, C. (2019). Introduction: Towards a telephonic history of technology. History and Technology, 35(2), 105-114, https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2019.1652959. \\
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Natale, S., Bory, P., & Balbi, G. (2019). The rise of corporational determinism: Digital media corporations and narratives of media change. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36(4), 323-338, https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2019.1632469. \\
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__EDITED BOOKS__\\
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Balbi, G., Ribeiro, N., Schafer, V., & Schwarzenegger, C. (Eds.) (2021). Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. Berlin: De Gruyter. \\
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Balbi, G., & Fickers, A. (Eds.) (2020). History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet. Berlin: De Gruyter. \\
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Bory, P., Negro, G., & Balbi, G. (Eds.) (2019). Computer Network Histories. Hidden Streams from the Internet Past. Zurich: Chronos Verlag.\\
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__BOOK CHAPTERS__\\
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Balbi, G., & Magaudda, P. (2022). Warum die Geschichte digitaler Medien erforschen - und wie? In C. Schwarzenegger, E. Koenen, C. Pentzold, T. Birkner, & C. Katzenbach (Eds.), Digitale Kommunikation und Kommunikationsgeschichte: Perspektiven, Potentiale, Problemfelder, pp. 31-61. Berlin.\\
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Balbi, G., Ribeiro, N., Schafer, V., & Schwarzenegger, C. (2021). Digging into Digital Roots. Towards a Conceptual Media and Communication History. In G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age, pp. 1-16. Berlin: De Gruyter.\\
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Rospocher, M. & Balbi, G. (2021). Networks. Infrastructures, Materiality, and Communities from Ancient Rome to Social Media. In G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age, pp. 19-39. Berlin: De Gruyter.\\
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Balbi, G., & Fickers, A. (2020). Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy. In G. Balbi & A. Fickers (Eds.), History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet, pp. 1-12. Berlin: De Gruyter.\\
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Balbi, G. (2020). I media come cose. In L. Barra & G. C. Galvagno (Eds.), Media-storie. Lezioni indimenticate di Peppino Ortoleva (pp. 51-55). Rome: Viella. \\
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Bory, P., Negro, G., Balbi, G. (2019). Introduction: The Tributaries and Distributaries of Computer Network Histories. In P. Bory, G. Negro, & G. Balbi (Eds.), Computer Network Histories. Hidden Streams from the Internet Past (pp. 7-13). Zurich: Chronos Verlag.\\
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Merziger, P., Balbi, G., Barrera, C., & Sipos, B. (2019). Crises, Rise of Fascism and the Establishment of Authoritarian Media Systems. In K. Arnold, P. Preston & S. Kinnebrock (Eds.), European Communication History Handbook (pp. 135-152). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. \\
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Balbi, G. (2019). Allungare e allargare la TV. Come la storia della tecnologia può aiutare quella della televisione. In M. Scaglioni (Ed.), Appassionati dissodatori. Storia e storiografia della televisione in Italia. Studi in onore di Aldo Grasso (pp. 75-81). Milan: Vita e pensiero. \\
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