Sara Bentivegna is Professor of Political Communication at the Department of Communication and Social Research (Coris), University of Rome “Sapienza”. Her scientific and research activities have been devoted to (both traditional and digital) communication and its impact from a multidimensional perspective.
Talking Politics on the Net
A paper by Sara Bentivegna, fall 1997 fellow, examines the concept of the public sphere within computer mediated communication. The particular focus is on communication produced by citizens who take part in news groups of a political nature. These news groups consist of people who discuss, via computer, relevant events of political life. Particularly active