Gabriele Balbi
http://usi.to/cyi
Publications
Key publications (4)
- Balbi G., Comunello F., Pasquali F., Sorice M. (2025) (a cura di) Studiare i media. Prospettive disciplinari e parole chiave
- Balbi G., Leggero R., G. Balbi R. L. (2024) (Eds.), Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée
- Balbi G. (2023) The Digital Revolution. A Short History of an Ideology
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2018) A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective.
Journal Article (52)
- Ferrigato R., Mazzoni P., Prario B., Balbi G. (2025) Change and resilience in Swiss newspapers and broadcasting, 2002 and 2022: Towards a critique of media concentration indices. Communication & Society, 38(1), 464-481. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.38.1.033, Communication & Society
- Barcella D., Benecchi E., Fomasi M., Balbi G. (2025) Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s, Convergence
- Balbi G., Hagedoorn B., Haydari N., Schafer V., Schwarzenegger C. (2024) La persistenza dei media: Teorie, approcci, categorizzazioni, Pagine inattuali, 11
- Barcella D., Benecchi E., Fomasi M., Balbi G. (2024) Cos'è il Web? Il CERN, Robert Cailliau e l'«identità culturale» di una nuova tecnologia (1993-1996), Studi culturali
- Magaudda P., Balbi G. (2024) Theorizing failure in digital media. Four eclectic theses, Annals of the International communication association, 48 (3, p. 205-218)
- Magaudda P., Balbi G. (2023) Pour une théorie de l’échec dans le domaine des médias numériques, Communication, 40 (1)
- Balbi G., Hagedoorn B., Haydari N., Schafer V., Schwarzenegger C. (2023) Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization, Studies in Communication Sciences, 23 (3)
- 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)
- Bory P., Lüthi E., Balbi G. (2022) «A story of friendship and misunderstandings»: the origins of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre 1985–1992, Itinera (Special Issue "Digital Federalism: Early Digital Infrastructures, 1960–2000"), 49
- 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
- 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, online first
- 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
- 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)
- Simone N., Bory P., Balbi G. (2019) The Rise of Corporational determinism: Digital media corporations and narratives of media change, Critical Studies in Media Communication
- Balbi G., Berth C. (2019) Introduction: Towards a telephonic history of technology, History and Technology, 35(2)
- 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, 2019(2)
- Balbi G. (2018) La “svolta apocalittica” negli studi sul digitale: introduzione, Quaderni di teoria sociale, 1
- Balbi G. (2017) Wireless’s “Critical Flaw”: The Marconi Company, Corporation Mentalities, and the Broadcasting Option, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, online first
- Balbi G. (2017) Ancora tu! L’emersione e la rilevanza della storia dei media nella vita quotidiana., Mediascapes Journal, 8
- Balbi G., Kittler J. (2016) One-to-One and One-to-Many Dichotomy: Grand Theories, Periodization, and Historical Narratives in Communication Studies, The International Journal of Communication, 10
- Balbi G., Delfanti A., Magaudda P. (2016) Digital Circulation: Media, Materiality, Infrastructures. An introduction, TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 7(1)
- Balbi G. (2016) 新媒介和旧媒介. 基于媒介史的二者关系理论化探索 (Old and New Media. Theorizing Their Relationships in Media Historiography), Global Media Journal. Chinese edition, 3(1)
- Bory P., Benecchi E., Balbi G. (2016) How the Web was Told: Continuity and Change in the founding fathers' narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web, New Media & Society Special Issue Web 25, 18 (7)
- Balbi G., Chen C., Wu J. (2016) Plea for a (new) Chinese media history, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture
- Balbi G., Ortoleva P. (2016) 对数字文化非然历史的呼呼 (Plea for an un-natural history of digital culture), 世界转播产业评论 (International Media Industry Review). 底12辑 (Vol. 12)
- Richeri G., Balbi G. (2015) The final days of the RAI hegemony. On the sociocultural reasons behind the fall of the public monopoly, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 3(1-2)
- Balbi G., Natale S. (2015) The Double Birth of Wireless: Italian Radio Amateurs and the Interpretive Flexibility of New Media, Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 22(1)
- Natale S., Balbi G. (2014) Media, History, Imaginary: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change, Media History, 20(2)
- Balbi G. (2014) Quando i nuovi media erano nuovi. Sulle ragioni socio-culturali della precoce metabolizzazione del telefonino in Italia, Studi Culturali, 1
- Balbi G., Ortoleva P. (2014) Plea for an un-natural history of digital culture, Contemporanea, 3
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2014) Telecommunications Italian Style. The shaping of the constitutive choices (1850-1914), History of Technology, vol. 32
- Balbi G., Scaglioni M. (2014) Editorial Special Issue on Convergent Television(s)., VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6)
- Balbi G., Fari S., Richeri G., Calvo S. (2013) Specialità svizzere. L’influenza della Confederazione elvetica sull’origini dell’Unione Telegrafica, 1855-1875, Tst: Transportes, Servicios y telecomunicaciones, 25
- Balbi G., Fari S., Calvo S., Richeri G. (2013) Swiss specialties: Switzerland’s role in the genesis of the Telegraph Union, 1855-1875, Journal of European Integration History, 19 (2 ( December ))
- Balbi G. (2013) The idles mattered. The early Italian telephone and its users, Estudos em Comunicação / Communication Studies, 14 (December)
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2013) The Bureaucratisation of the Telegraph Union, Storia Economica, 2
- Balbi G. (2011) Una storia della storia dei media. Mappa di una disciplina in formazione, "Problemi dell'informazione", 2/3: 163-192
- Calvo S., Balbi G., Fari S., Richeri G. (2011) La voie suisse aux télécommunications. Politique, économie, technologie et société (1850–1915), "Revue Suisse d'Histoire", 61(4): 435-453
- Balbi G. (2011) Doing Media History in 2050, "Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture", 8 (2 ( October ))
- Balbi G. (2011) Un percorso bibliografico nella storia dei media, "Problemi dell'informazione", 2-3: 339-348.
- Balbi G. (2011) The Origins of the Telephone in Italy, 1877-1915: Politics, Economics, Technology and Society, "International Journal of Communication", 5
- Balbi G., Prario B. (2010) The history of Fininvest/Mediaset's media strategy: 30 years of politics, the market, technology and Italian society, "Media, Culture and Society", 32 (3)
- Balbi G. (2010) Radio before Radio: Araldo Telefonico and the invention of Italian broadcasting, "Technology and Culture", 51 (4 ( October ))
- Balbi G. (2009) Studying the Social History of Telecommunications. Between Anglophone and Continental Traditions, "Media History", 15 (1)
- Balbi G. (2009) I «parassiti» contano. La telefonia italiana e i primi abbonati (1880-1915), "Studi Culturali", Anno VI (1 ( April ))
- Balbi G. (2009) Tra stato e mercato. Le prime società telefoniche italiane, 1878-1915, "Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900" (3 ( July ))
- Balbi G., Calvo S., Fari S., Richeri G. (2009) Bringing together the two large electric currents that divide Europe’: Switzerland’s Role in Promoting the Creation of a Common European Telegraph Space, 1849-1865, ICON, 15
- Balbi G. (2008) Dappertutto telefonini. Per una storia sociale della telefonia mobile in Italia, "Intersezioni" (3 ( December ))
- Balbi G. (2007) Squilli di carta. I primi 40 anni del telefono nelle pagine della letteratura italiana, "Memoria e Ricerca". Fasciolo 25, Maggio-Agosto
- Prario B., Balbi G. (2007) Ritorno al Futuro. Il passato e il presente della Mobile TV, "Observatorio (OBS) Journal", 2
- Balbi G. (2005) I vecchi e i giovani. Strategie di mimesi tra old e new media, "Studies in Communication Sciences", 5 (1)
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G., Lobinger K., The mediatization of the air. Wireless telegraphy and the origins of a transnational space of communication, 1900-1910s, Journal of communication, 68 (4)
Book (20)
- Balbi G., Comunello F., Pasquali F., Sorice M. (2025) (a cura di) Studiare i media. Prospettive disciplinari e parole chiave. Carocci
- Balbi G., Leggero R., G. Balbi R. L. (2024) (Eds.), Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée. Routledge
- Balbi G., Ortoleva P. (2023) La comunicazione imperfetta. Ostacoli, equivoci, adattamenti. Torino: Einaudi
- Balbi G. (2023) The Digital Revolution. A Short History of an Ideology. Oxford University Press
- Balbi G. (2022) L’ultima ideologia. Breve storia della rivoluzione digitale. Roma-Bari: Laterza.
- Balbi G., Ribeiro N., Schafer V., Schwarzenegger C. (2021) (Eds.) Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2020) (Eds.) History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Balbi G., Jiang F., Richeri G. (2019) (Eds.) China and the Global Media Landscape. Remapping and Remapped. Newcastle Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing.
- Bory P., Negro G., Balbi G. (2019) (Eds) Computer Network Histories: Emerging Streams from the Internet Past. Chronos
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2018) A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective.. Milton: Routledge
- Magaudda P., Balbi G. (2018) (Eds.). Fallimenti digitali. Per un’archeologia dei nuovi media.. Milano: Unicopli
- Sparviero S., Peil C., Balbi G. (2017) (Eds.). Media Convergence and Deconvergence. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2015) The formative years of the Telegraph Union.. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing
- Balbi G., Fari S., Richeri G., Calvo S. (2014) Network Neutrality. Switzerland’s role in the genesis of the Telegraph Union, 1855-1875. Peter Lang: Bern.
- Balbi G., P. M. (2014) Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Laterza: Roma-Bari. Laterza
- Balbi G., Winterhalter C. (2013) (a cura di) Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare il vecchio e il nuovo. Napoli: Orthotes
- Balbi G. (2011) Le origini del telefono in Italia. Politica, economia, tecnologia, società. Bruno Mondadori. Milano: Bruno Mondadori
- Balbi G., Miconi A., Ortoleva P. (2011) Come cambiano i media. Sfide, categorie, direzioni di ricerca. Numero monografico di "Problemi dell'informazione", 2-3. Bologna: il Mulino
- Balbi G. (2010) La radio prima della radio. L'Araldo Telefonico e l'invenzione del broadcasting in Italia. Roma: Bulzoni
- Maeusli T., Balbi G. (2009) Voce e Specchio. Storia della Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana. Dadò, Locarno
Book chapter (38)
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2025) ITU (Unione Internazionale delle Telecomunicazioni): attore, arena e antenna della tecno-diplomazia globale. M. Mugnaini (a cura di), ONU 1945-2025. Studi su un sistema globale. Milan: Franco Angeli
- Balbi G. (2025) ‘History Web’, ‘Web History’, and ‘History of the Web’: Three Subfields and Why (and Why Not) Integrating Them. S. Aasman, A. Ben-David, & N. Brügger (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies.. Routledge: London
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2025) I media come limiti: una teoria sui confini, divieti e carenze. Il medium oggi. Da McLuhan all’intelligenza artificiale. Rome: Carocci.
- Balbi G., Negro G., Rikitianskaia M., Scolari C., Trudel D. (2025) Information and Communication Theories: A Global History of the (Con)fusion. T. Weller, A. Black, B. Mak, & L. Skouvig (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Information History. Routledge
- Balbi G., Negro G., Rikitianskaia M., Scolari C. A., Trudel D. (2025) Information and communication theories. A global history of the (con)fusion. The Routledge Handbook of Information History
- Balbi G. (2025) “History web,” “web history,” and “history of the web”. Three subfields and why (and why not) integrating them. The Routledge companion to transnational web archive studies
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2025) ITU (Unione Internazionale delle Telecomunicazioni): attore, arena e antenna della tecno-diplomazia globale. ONU 1945-2025. Studi su un sistema globale
- Balbi G., Leggero R. (2024) Communication Studies Long for Maintenance Cultures: A Theoretical Introduction to the Book. G. Balbi, & R. Leggero (Eds.), Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée. London: Routledge
- Porlezza C., Balbi G. (2024) I mercati dei media: trend globali, svizzeri e locali. Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino (Ed.), Cultura nei media. Tra linearità verticali e reti orizzontali. Bellinzona.
- Barra L., Balbi G. (2024) Internet prima di internet. Piccola storia sistemica di Televideo e del teletext italiano. In G. Barlozzetti (Eds.), La TV da sfogliare, 1985-2024. 40 anni di Televideo. Rome: Rai libri.
- Balbi G., P. M. (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,. Berlin
- Rospocher M., Balbi G. (2021) Networks. Infrastructures, Materiality, and Communities from Ancient Rome to Social Media. G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Balbi G., Ribeiro N., Schafer V., Schwarzenegger C. (2021) Digging into Digital Roots. Towards a Conceptual Media and Communication History. G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Balbi G. (2020) I media come cose (2011). L. Barra & G. C. Galvagno (Eds.), Media-storie. Lezioni indimenticate di Peppino Ortoleva. Rome: Viella
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2020) Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy. G. Balbi & A. Fickers (Eds.), History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet. Berlin: De Gruyter
- Balbi G., Di Salvo P., Lyon D. (2020) La sorveglianza: un tema "classico" per capire il contemporaneo. La cultura della sorveglianza. Come la società del controllo ci ha reso tutti controllori. LUISS University Press
- Balbi G. (2019) Allungare e allargare la TV. Come la storia della tecnologia può aiutare quella della televisione. M. Scaglioni (Ed.), Appassionati dissodatori. Storia e storiografia della televisione in Italia. Studi in onore di Aldo Grasso. Milano: Vita e pensiero
- Merziger P., Balbi G., Barrera C., Sipos B. (2019) Crises, Rise of Fascism and the Establishment of Authoritarian Media Systems. K. Arnold, P. Preston & S. Kinnebrock (Eds.), European Communication History Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Bory P., Negro G., Balbi G. (2019) The tributaries and distributaries of network histories. Computer Network Histories: Emerging Streams from the Internet Past. Chronos
- P. M., Balbi G. (2018) Per una teoria del fallimento nei media digitali. P. Magaudda e G. Balbi, Fallimenti digitali. Un'"archeologia" dei nuovi media. Milano: Unicopli
- Balbi G. (2017) Arretratezza e innovazione. La digitalizzazione dei media Italiani. A. Grasso (Ed.). Storia della comunicazione e dello spettacolo in Italia. Vol III, I media alla sfida della convergenza, dal 1979-2012. Milano: Vita e Pensiero
- Balbi G. (2017) Deconstructing “Media Convergence”: A Cultural History of the Buzzword, 1980s-2010s.. S. Sparviero, C. Peil, & G. Balbi (Eds.), Media Convergence and Deconvergence. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Barra L., Balbi G. (2016) The Italian way to teletext: The History, Structure and Role of Televideo Rai.. In H. Moe & H. Van den Bulck (Eds.), Teletext in Europe: From the Analogue to the Digital Era. Göteborg: Nordicom
- Balbi G., Moraglio M. (2016) A Proposal to Hybridise Communication and Mobility Research Agendas. S. Fari & M. Moraglio (Eds.), Peripheral flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Balbi G. (2015) Old and New Media. Theorizing Their Relationships in Media Historiography. In S. Kinnebrock, C. Schwarzenegger, & T. Birkner (Eds.), Theorien des Medienwandels. Köln: Halem.
- Balbi G. (2015) The International Bureau. S. Fari, with G. Balbi and G. Richeri (Eds.), The formative years of the Telegraph Union. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing
- Balbi G., John R. R. (2015) Point-to-Point: Telecommunications Networks from the Optical Telegraph to the Mobile Telephone. L. Cantoni & J. A. Danowski (Eds.), Communication and Technology, 5th volume of the Handbook of Communication Science. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
- Balbi G. (2014) Da Morse a Jobs. Politica, impresa, tecnologia e utenti nella storia delle telecomunicazioni. M. Cucco (a cura di). La trama dei media. Stato, imprese, pubblico nella società dell’informazione. Rome: Carocci
- Balbi G. (2013) Wireless. Nascita, morte e resurrezione di un’idea. D. Borrelli (a cura di). Media che cambiano, parole che restano. Roma: Carocci
- Balbi G. (2013) Telecommunications. P. Simonson, J. Peck, R. T. Craig, & J. P. Jackson (Eds.), Handbook of Communication History. London and New York: Routledge. P. Simonson, J. Peck, R. T. Craig, and J. P. Jackson (eds.). Handbook of Communication History. London and New York: Routledge
- Balbi G. (2013) ‘I Will Answer You, My Friend, but I am Afraid’: Telephones and the Fear of a New Medium in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy. In S. Nicholas & T. O’Malley (Eds.), The Media, Social Fears and Moral Panics: Historical Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge. S. Nicholas and T. O’Malley (eds.). Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the MediaHistorical Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.
- Balbi G. (2013) Telephony. in M. Danesi (ed.). Encyclopedia of Media and Communication. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press
- Balbi G. (2013) I media. Quattro paradigmi nella relazione tra vecchi e nuovi mezzi di comunicazione. G. Balbi e C. Winterhalter (a cura di). Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare il vecchio e il nuovo.. Napoli: Orthotes
- Balbi G. (2013) Dal telefono alla radio (e ritorno?). V. Marchis and F. Profumo (a cura di), Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero. Tecnica.. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
- Balbi G., Isabella S. (2010) I media e il privato in pubblico: una storia. In P. Jedlowski e O. Affuso, Sfera pubblica. Il concetto e i suoi luoghi. Cosenza: Pellegrini
- Balbi G., Mäusli T. (2009) Studiare la storia della radio e della televisione nella Svizzera italiana. In T. Mäusli (a cura di), Voce e specchio. Storia della radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana. Locarno: Armando Dadò
- Balbi G., Prario B. (2008) Back to the Future. The Past and the Present of Mobile TV. In Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjort (eds.), Mobile Technologies. From Telecommunications to Media. London: Routledge
- Balbi G. (2005) Leggere di televisione. In G.P. Caprettini e S. Zenatti (a cura di), Linguaggi televisivi. Roma: Carocci
Conference proceedings (4)
- Balbi G. (2012) Marconi’s diktats. How Italian international wireless policy was shaped by a private company, 1903-1911. HISTELCON (History of Electro-technology Conference), Session 3 "Telecommunications 2". Pavia. 5-7 September
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2012) A common technical culture of telegraphy: the Telegraph Union and the significance of Technological Standardization, 1865-1875. HISTELCON (History of Electro-technology Conference), Session 3 "Telecommunications 2". Pavia. 5-7 September
- Balbi G. (2008) The "Araldo Telefonico". Origins, Structures and Models of the Italian Broadcasting. "Antenna. Newsletter of the Mercurians". Proceedings Workshop Mercurians: "Technologies, Technologists & Networks. A Symposium on the History of Communication Technologies". Washington. 17-21 October, 2007
- Prario B., Balbi G. (2008) Back to the Future. The Past and the Present of Mobile TV. In Karen Ross and Stuart Price (eds.), Popular Media and Communication: Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Proceedings of MeCCSA Conference. Coventry. 10-12 January 2007
Article in conference proceedings (1)
- Barcella D., Mazzoni P., Fomasi M., Balbi G. (2025) Notes from the 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop: Communication Networks Before and After the Web. IEEE Computer Society. CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Genève. 5-7 February 2025
Report in scientific conference (140)
- Mazzoni P., Benecchi E., Balbi G. (2025) Media Choices and Social Connections: Exploring Traditional and Digital Media Use Among Active Seniors in Switzerland. International Conference Ageing in the digital era. An Interdisciplinary Debate on ICTs and Social Inclusion for Older Adults. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. 20-21.02.2025
- Balbi G., Mazzoni P., Ferrigato R. (2025) Accessibility, transparency and data markets in Switzerland: Problematizing the use of private data aggregators in the study of media concentration. 75th Annual ICA (International Communication Association). Denver. 12-16.06.2025
- Balbi G., Negro G., Rikitianskaia M., Scolari C., Trudel D. (2025) Information and Communication Theories: beyond the US tradition.. 50 Years of Media at Westminster. London. May
- Balbi G. (2025) Understanding AI through history and sociology. Conference “Reality or Fiction? The Potential of Digital Technology for Society and Culture”, organized by Digital Switzerland,. Locarno Film Festival. August
- Barcella D., Balbi G. (2024) Why did they call it "World Wide Web"? The genesis, development, and evolution of the Web name, 1989-today. ICA. Gold Coast, Australia. 23.06.2024
- Balbi G. (2024) The Web in the public memory, the Web as a public memory. 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History. Luxembourg. September
- Balbi G. (2024) Making order. The Longue Durée of maintenance in communication infrastructures. 10Th ECREA General Conference. Ljubljana. September
- Martini M., Fomasi M., Barcella D., Benecchi E., Balbi G. (2024) Data Solicitation for Media History. A new approach to study the CERN mailing list of the World Wide Web, 1991-1995.. 10Th ECREA General Conference. Ljubljana. September
- Balbi G. (2024) (Poster) The History of Digital Revolution and Its Relationships with Past and Contemporary Revolutions. A Study on the History of Ideas. 74th ICA Conference. Gold Coast, Australia. June
- Balbi G. (2024) Maintenance in/and Communication and Media Studies: Theory, Research Agendas, Research Paths. Academia Europeae Annual Meeting, Section Film, Media & Visual Studies. Wroclaw. November
- Balbi G. (2024) La trasformazione digitale. Eredità, racconti e prospettive future. Conference “Dalla radio di Marconi alle trasmissioni del Voyager”. Rome, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. December
- Balbi G. (2024) Intelligenza artificiale: Una breve storia. Möbius Incontri 2024. Lugano. October
- Fomasi M., Balbi G. (2023) Successful Losers. The legacies of co-existent - and now failed or declining - information retrieval systems on the Web). STS Italia. Bologna. 28-30 June
- Balbi G. (2023) Media at/after/as War: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.. Keynote Speech, ECREA Communication History Section Workshop ‘War, Communication, and Media Resilience in Europe’,. Lund. August
- Fomasi M., Barcella D., Benecchi E., Balbi G. (2023) Where Is the Authentic Story of the Web? An Analysis of the WWW Collection at CERN in Geneva.. 73rd ICA Conference. Toronto. May.
- Balbi G. (2023) La comunicazione imperfetta. Malintesi, silenzi, malfunzionamenti. . V Convegno nazionale SISSC. Bari. June
- Balbi G. (2023) The Telegraph Union (1865): telegraphy and globalization. Droit et Techniques – Un atelier du GDR 20292 TPH. Paris. October
- Balbi G. (2023) Storia e geopolitica di TikTok. Möbius Incontri 2023. Lugano. October
- Benecchi E., Barcella D., Fomasi M., Balbi G. (2022) Doing a content analysis on the CERN archive’s folders on the Web. A methodological reflection for media and communication historians.. ECREA Communication History Section. Luxembourg. 02.02.2022 - 04.02.2022
- Balbi G. (2022) Communication is Maintenance. Towards a maintenance culture in communication and media studies. Workshop Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée. online. February
- Balbi G. (2022) Networks. Seminar “Histories of Digital Concepts”, LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge. online. March
- Bory P., Balbi G., Natale S. (2022) From big events to silence: The shift in the discursive construction of communication infrastructures.. 72nd ICA Conference. Paris. May
- Balbi G. (2022) From ‘History Web’ and ‘Web History’ to the ‘History of the Web’? Reflections from a project studying the origins of the World Wide Web. WARCnet Closing Conference. Aarhus, Denmark. 17-18 October
- Balbi G. (2022) From ‘History Web’ and ‘Web History’ to the ‘History of the Web’? Reflections from a project studying the origins of the World Wide Web. WARCnet Closing Conference,. Aarhus, Denmark. 17-18 October
- Fomasi M., Barcella D., Balbi G., Benecchi E. (2022) “Anatomy of an archive. The birth, construction, and development of the World Wide Web collection at CERN”. WARCnet Closing Conference ‘Web Archive Studies Researching Web Domains and Events’. Aarhus. 17-18 October
- Barcella D., Fomasi M., Balbi G., Benecchi E. (2022) Accelerating Digging. CERN Archives and the Sources to Retrace the History of the World Wide Web. ECREA Rethink Impact. Aarhus. 19-22 October
- Lüthi E., Zeller S., Balbi G. (2022) Swiss media markets. Wireless, wireline and broadcasting among regional, national and transnational forces, 2018-2020. First Conference of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (GMICP). Digital communications and media markets: Power, policy and global perspectives. Ottawa (Canada). August 18-19
- Balbi G., Barra L. (2022) (Media) Flow: An Historical Perspective. ECREA 2022 General Conference. Aarhus. October
- Balbi G. (2022) Il Metaverso è la prossima rivoluzione?. Möbius Incontri 2022. Lugano. October.
- Balbi G. (2022) Storia dell’idea di rivoluzione digitale, 1960-oggi. Narrazioni, ripetizioni, parallelismi. IV Convegno nazionale SISSC. Napoli. June
- Balbi G. (2022) La rivoluzione digitale. Racconti, personaggi, oggetti. Museo dei mezzi di comunicazione. Arezzo. March
- Balbi G. (2022) La trasformazione digitale: storia e futuro. Lugano eventi. Lugano. August
- Balbi G. (2022) Miti e leggende dell’era digitale. Wired Next Fest. Milano. October
- Balbi G. (2022) La rivoluzione digitale. Miti, racconti, ideologie. Seminar FISPPA e PASTIS University of Padoa. Padoa. October
- Balbi G. (2022) La rivoluzione a metà: storie della Rete tra miti e limiti. Milano Digital Week. Catholic University, Milan. November
- Balbi G. (2021) Senza immaginario non ci sono i media. Immaginario e costruzione socio-tecnica dei media. AIS immaginario “L‘immaginario è reale”. online workshop. May
- Balbi G., Leggero R. (2021) Communication is maintenance. Turning the agenda of media and communication studies upside down. STS Italia 2021. Trieste. June
- Fomasi M., Balbi G., Barcella D., Benecchi E., Pace J. V. (2021) Revisiting the invention of the Web through the CERN archives. 4th RESAW Conference "Mainstream vs marginal content in Web history and Web archives". Luxemburg. June
- Balbi G., Rospocher M. (2021) Networks. Roundtable “Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age”, Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival. online workshop. July
- Balbi G., Rospocher M. (2021) Networks. ECREA 21 Conference. online. September
- Balbi G. (2021) Old media persistence in the digital era. A theory. ECREA 21 Post Conference “Old Media Persistence”. online. September
- Lüthi E., Bory P., Balbi G. (2020) The Birth of the Swiss Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Steering Innovation in Communication Infrastructures. Bern, Switzerland. 5-6 February 2020
- Balbi G. (2020) Work in progress: History of the Idea of Digital Revolution. Media History Research Center (MHRC) Work in Progress Event. Loyola Campus, Concordia University, Montreal. March
- Magaudda P., Balbi G. (2020) Between mobile privatization and privatized mobility. Looking at mobile media in historical perspective. Webinar “Mobility and the Humanities seminar series. Theories and Methods Node". Padoa University. May
- Balbi G. (2020) Public and private management of communications in historical perspective. Debates and arguments over time. Annual Postgraduate CMSPS (Communications & Media and Social & Policy Studies Units) Conference,. Loughborough University. June
- Schwarzenegger C., Balbi G. (2019) Fairy Tales of the Past Future: Imaginaries of Digital Futures Through Consumer Fairs From the 1980s to the 2000s. Memories of the Future Conference. London. March
- Balbi G. (2019) Marconi Company between wireless and broadcasting: A study on the culture of a company, 1910s-1920s. Invited by the Centre for Media History at Bournemouth University. Haven Hotel, Sandbanks. February
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2019) Fallimenti digitali. Un’archeologia dei «nuovi» media. Lezione-incontro presso l'Università Sapienza. Roma. Aprile
- Balbi G. (2019) Why and how to do digital media history?. Conference “Digitale Kommunikation und Kommunikationsgeschichte: Perspektiven, Potentiale, Problemfelder“, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Fachgruppen “Digitale Kommunikation“ und “Kommunikationsgeschichte“ der DGPuK. Bremen. January
- Balbi G. (2019) Analog persistence. A new research agenda for historians of digital technology. 9th Tensions of Europe conference. Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Luxembourg. 27-30 June
- Balbi G. (2019) Tre dicotomie per la storia dei media: vecchio e nuovo, continuità e cambiamento, successo e fallimento. Summer School «I media e la storia». Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italia.. 19-21 June
- Balbi G., Schwarzenegger C. (2019) The Way the Future Was. Imagining the Digital Futures in Consumer Fairs, 1980s-2000s. IAMCR Conference, Madrid, July.. IAMCR Conference. Madrid. 8-11 July
- Bory P., Lüthi E., Balbi G. (2019) The birth of CSCS: The past future of supercomputing in Switzerland. SHOT 2019 Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting. Milan. 24-27 October
- Balbi G. (2019) Gli strumenti di comunicazione interpersonale nella storia. Convegno Ciao Table “I fattori che facilitano gli scambi sociali spontanei e le amicizie”.. Lugano, Switzerland. November
- Bory P., Lüthi E., Balbi G. (2019) The birth of CSCS: The past future of supercomputing in Switzerland.. SHOT (Society for the History of Technology). Milan. November
- Balbi G. (2019) La memoria della digitalizzazione. Eventi, momenti di svolta e immaginario. Premio Möbius Multimedia Lugano 2019. Lugano, Switzerland. October
- Lüthi E., Balbi G., Bory P. (2019) The Birth of CSCS: The Past Future of Supercomputing in Switzerland. Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting. Milan, Italy. 24-27 October 2019
- Bory P., Lüthi E., Balbi G. (2019) The Past Future of Supercomputing in Switzerland.. SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) Annual Meeting. Milan. October
- Balbi G. (2018) Global Trends in Digital Media History. School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University. Beijing. May
- Balbi G. (2018) Media in Cina: prospettive storiche. Invited lecture Università Cà Foscari. Venice. February
- Balbi G. (2018) Aboliamo i novizi! I benefici di un approccio storico alla digitalizzazione. Summer School Vite Digitali. Essere umani nel XXI secolo. Cuneo. 11-15 settembre
- Balbi G. (2018) La mediatizzazione dell’aria. Appunti e riflessioni sulla historical mediatization research. Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico e Fondazione Bruno Kessler, LX Settimana di Studio "Mediatizzazione e medialità della storia tra età moderna e contemporanea". Trento. 19-21 settembre
- Bory P., Simone N., Balbi G. (2018) Corporational determinism. How digital media companies shape narratives of media change. ECREA’s 7th European Communication Conference. Lugano. 31 October -3 November
- Zhang Z., Balbi G. (2018) Side effect of Belt & Road initiatives in Europe? Understanding the Chinese strategy for European Integration/Disintegration. Preconference of International Communication Association Annual Conference. Prague. May. 23
- Balbi G. (2018) Aboliamo i novizi! I benefici di un approccio storico alla digitalizzazione. Summer School “Vite digitali. Essere umani nel XXI secolo”. Cuneo. settembre
- Balbi G. (2018) La mediatizzazione dell’aria. Appunti e riflessioni sulla historical mediatization research. Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico e Fondazione Bruno Kessler, LX Settimana di Studio “Mediatizzazione e medialità della storia tra età moderna e contemporanea”. Trento. settembre
- Schwarzenegger C., Balbi G., Lobinger K. (2018) Academic Traditions in Communication: Expanding the Field and Redrawing the Boundaries. Panel organized at the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) "Centers and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation". Lugano, Switzerland. October 31 - November 3
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2017) Internationalization of Time: Wireless Telegraphy and Time Signals in the 1910s. CRCC symposium "Media and Time". Loughborough University. 15-16 June 2017
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2017) The Transnational Mediatization of the Air. Reshaping a “natural” space through wireless-related fields, 1900-1910s.. The 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Interventions: Communication Research and Practice. San Diego, CA, USA.. 25-29 May 2017
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2017) The ITU as techno-diplomatic arena in international telecommunications 19th-21st century. A longue durée perspective. ITU Workshop. Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History. 18-20 October
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2017) Wireless Around The Clock: Introducing Time Signals By Wireless Telegraphy in the 1910s. ZeMKI international conference „The Mediatization of Time“. University of Bremen, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research. December 6-8, 2017
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2017) Wireless Around The Clock: Introducing Time Signals By Wireless Telegraphy in the 1910s. The Mediatization of Time: New perspectives on media, data and temporality. ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information. Research University of Bremen, Germany. 7-8 December 2017
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2016) Media e Narrazioni. Tecnologia, politica e immaginario in cinque casi di studio. Seminario di ricerca Funes, Atelier di ricerca sulla Narrazione e l'Immaginario. Napoli, Dipartimento di scienze sociali. 16 Maggio 2016
- Balbi G. (2016) Nothing really changes vs. Everything is constantly changing. Reflections on two determinisms. 66th ICA Annual Conference. Fukuoka, Japan. 9-13 June
- Negro G., Balbi G. (2016) China and the Construction of the Global Internet, 1994-2014. Reasons, sources and preliminary results from a research project. 66th ICA Annual Conference – Preconference: The politics and economics of Chinese new media. Fukuoka, Japan. 9 June
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2016) Wireless telegraphy and synchronisation of time. A transnational perspective. 8.infoclio.ch-Tagung 2016 Zeitregimeund Geschichtswissenschaften / 8ème colloque infoclio.ch 2016 Régimes temporelset sciences historiques. Bern, Progr–Zentrum für Kulturproduktion. 14 October 2016
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2016) The “Conquer of the Air“ (1900 – 1920s). Wireless Telegraphy and the Symbolic Construction of a “New“ Space in Transnational and Inter-Institutional Perspectives. ECREA 2016 conference "‘Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Future". Prague. 9-12 November 2016
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2016) "Limiting Digital Media": a Theoretical Approach. STS Italia Conference. Trento. 24-26 November
- Balbi G. (2015) European Memories. A transnational project on media and the process of remembering in Europe. HERA Joint Research Programme, Matchmaking Event. Tallin. 29th January
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2015) European dimension in transnational telecommunication studies. Inventing European Wireless, 1903-1927. Tensions of Europe mini workshop. Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH), Paris. 27-28 January 2015
- Balbi G. (2015) Storia dei media digitali. PhD meetings “Scienze della mente e delle relazioni umane”. Lecce. 27 February
- Balbi G., Fari S., Richeri G. (2015) Communications and the States. The Swiss Influence on the origins of ITU, 1855-1876.. 65th ICA Annual Conference – Preconference: Communications and the State. Puerto Rico. 19th May
- Balbi G., P. M. (2015) Storia dei media digitali. Roundtable “Innovazione digitale. Tecnologie, informazione, media”. Osservatorio astronomico la Specola, Padoa. 29 April
- Balbi G., Natale S. (2015) Prophecies, Newness, Obsolescence. Media History and Past, Present and Future Imaginaries. Associazione italiana di sociologia/European Sociology Association Conference “From memories to the future. Collective memories and horizons of expectations in contemporary Europe”. Naples. 4-5 June
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2015) Wireless-ments. The international understanding of wireless telegraphy in the early 20th century: common points and conflicts. Technology + Environment 7th Tensions of Europe Conference. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. 3-6 September 2015
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2015) What does “Doing Internet History” Mean?. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop. Venice. 16-19 September
- Balbi G. (2015) Old and New Media: Theorizing Their Relationships in Media Historiography. Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Global Communication. Beijing Foreign Studies University. 17 October
- Balbi G. (2015) Historicizing Media Convergence as a buzzword, 1970s-2010s. International Communication Forum. Media Convergence in Global Comparative Perspectives. Shanghai. 25 -26 October
- Bory P., Benecchi E., Balbi G. (2015) On the edge between conservation and change. A diachronic analysis of the founding fathers’ narratives surrounding the World Wide Web. Times and temporalities of the Web CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC. Institut des Sciences de la Communication ISCC. 1-3 December 2015
- Balbi G. (2015) The role of Switzerland in the construction of the Telegraph Union. International Exploratory Workshop Transnational Histories of Telecommunications @ITU. Geneva. 17-19 December
- Balbi G. (2014) Per una storia dell’idea di servizio pubblico. Workshop “Servizio pubblico e informazione: le nuove sfide”. Lugano. 20 March
- Massimo C., Balbi G. (2014) Vecchio e nuovo. Media ed emozioni. Ossidiana (Osservatorio per lo studio dei Processi Culturali e della Vita Quotidiana). Arcavacata di Rende. 26 June
- Balbi G. (2014) A History of Media Convergence, 1970s-2010s. The NECS 2014 Conference. Milan, Universtà Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. 19-21 June
- Balbi G., Moraglio M. (2014) Travelling or Communicating? The False Dilemma of Mobility. Questions about a marginalized issue. ICOHTEC (International Committee for the History of Technology). Brasov. 28 July - 2 August
- Balbi G. (2014) Sui miti fondativi della rete. Progetto formativo ECM Comunicare nell’era di Internet. La grande rete, potenzialità e limiti. Turin. 17 October
- Natale S., Balbi G. (2014) Media, Imaginary, History: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change.. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference. Lisbon. 13-16 November
- Balbi G. (2014) Questioning “media convergence” through history. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference. Lisbon. 13-16 November
- Balbi G. (2014) Le origini del telefono in Italia. Politica, economia, tecnologia e società. Fondazione ISEC, "Sistemi di comunicazione, tecnici e imprese nelle carte degli archivi aziendali". Sesto San Giovanni (MI). 21 November
- Balbi G. (2014) The re-emerging past. Reflections on media historiography. NSF-Kolloqium, NCCR Mediality, Universität Zürich. Zurich. 25 November
- Balbi G. (2014) Mediastoriografica. Rapporti tra storia dei media e storia della TV. Seminar "Intorno ai media: scambi e discussioni". Turin. 15 December
- Balbi G. (2013) Marconi and the broadcasting option, or, When Marconi didn’t invent broadcasting. The annual Byrne Bussey Marconi Lecture. Oxford University, Oxford. 20 April
- Balbi G. (2013) Between telegraph and radio. When Marconi Company discovered the ‘broadcasting option’ of his wireless. Séminaire Histoire des Sciences Histoire de l’Innovation, Sorbonne Université. Paris. 23 April
- Balbi G. (2013) Inventing European Wireless. A project on the cultural history of wireless from point-to-point telegraphy to one-to-many broadcasting, 1903-1927. Transnational Mediascapes Conference. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. 14-15 May
- Balbi G. (2013) Conversing or listening? One-to-one and one-to-many communication: the cases of Telephone and Radio. Workshop "New Technologies and Cultures of Communication in the 19th and 20th Centuries", The German Historical Institute. Washington D.C.. 10-11 May
- Balbi G. (2013) Old/New, Tradition/Innovation, Change/Continuity. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop "History of the Media in Transition Periods". Lisbon. 4-6 September
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2013) “European Multilateralism” (1848-1865): a Telegraphic idea?. Conference of Tensions of Europe, "Democracy and Technology". Paris. 19-21 September
- Balbi G. (2013) Fare televisione non è fare telefono. O no?. Summer School – Prix Italia. Turin. 23-26 September
- Balbi G., Richeri G. (2013) 3 options for a research in media and mobility. Workshop Peripheral Mobilities. Granada. 13 November
- Balbi G. (2013) Deconstructing “media convergence”: A cultural history of a buzzword, 1980s-2000s. Deconstructing Media Convergence Conference. Salzburg. 21-23 November
- Balbi G., Kittler J. (2012) Dialoguing With Socrates or Disseminating Like Jesus? Rereading Communication History Through ‘One-to-One’ and ‘One-to-Many’ Lenses. 62nd Annual ICA Conference, Communication History Interest Group, Panel "Innovative Methods in Communication History". Phoenix. 24-27 May
- Balbi G. (2012) There is something new under the media today, or rather, something ancient. Research Seminars, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster. London. March 14th
- Balbi G. (2012) There is something new under the media today, or rather, something ancient. 4th National STS Italia Conference, Track 8 "Nothing new in the new? history and the emergence of new media". Rovigo. 21-23 June
- Balbi G. (2012) What wireless testified. Italian Radio Amateurs and legal debates on communication. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference, Panel: Media regulation, public discourseand power. Istanbul. 24-27 October
- Balbi G., Fari S. (2012) History and Historiography of Telecommunications in Italy. Workshop: The Italian Technology in a European and Global Context, 15th-20th Centuries, European University Institute. Florence. 8-9 November
- Balbi G., Natale S. (2012) Doing by imagining: imagination and the construction of the media in history. Fourth Aberystwyth Media History Conference,"Perception, Reception:The History of the Media in Society". Aberystwyth. 4-6 July
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2012) Last in First Out. How the Telegraph Brought to International Organization Before Post and Trains. 39th Annual Meeting ICOHTEC, Panel: "Telecommunications:Nationals Systems and International Organizations". Barcelona. 10-14 July
- Balbi G. (2012) Invited Speaker. YECREA Panel at ECREA General Conference. Istanbul. 25 October
- Balbi G. (2011) The European Wireless, 1897-1925. Between National Styles and Common Patterns. ECREA Comm History Workshop. "The History of Mass Media in Europe: Towards Post-National Perspectives and [Hi-]Stories". Dublin. 7-9 September
- Balbi G. (2011) Invited speaker. YECREA workshop at Communication History Section 2011 Conference. Dublin. 7 September
- Balbi G., Fari S., Calvo S., Richeri G. (2011) The Swiss Influence in the ITU’s Decision-Making Process, 1855-76. SHOT Conference. Panel "Do Politics Have Artifacts? The Promise of International Communications Networks". Cleveland. 3-6 November
- Balbi G. (2011) Immaginario: etimologie e costruzione sociale dei media. minario di studi "Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni", Workshop: "Media e immaginario". Università degli Studi di Torino. December 12nd
- Balbi G. (2011) L’iPad di Clio. O sulla storia (dei media) quale disciplina in grado di leggere l’innovazione. Forum italiano per lo studio dell’innovazione. L’innovazione tecnologica tra vecchie e nuove diseguaglianze (Univesità di Padova-CIGA, Rovigo,November 21-22). Forum italiano per lo studio dell’innovazione. L’innovazione tecnologica tra vecchie e nuove diseguaglianze. Univesità di Padova-CIGA, Rovigo. November 21-22
- Balbi G. (2011) The Origins of the Telephone in Italy, 1877-1915: Politics, Economics, Technology, and Society. 61st Annual ICA Conference, Communication History Interest Group, Panel "Wired Histories: Technology in Social Context". Boston. 26-30 May
- Balbi G. (2011) Media History Matters! Araldo Telefonico - When the Telephone Served as Radio. PCA Informal Lecture Series, Performance and Communication Arts Department, St. Lawrence University. Canton, NY. 22 September
- Balbi G. (2011) Media History Matters. Araldo Telefonico and the telephone as a one-to-many medium. Visiting Speaker’s Series. School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University. Ottawa. 23 September
- Balbi G., Calvo S., Fari S. (2010) The Austro-German and the West European telegraph unions as predecessors of the International Telegraph Union. Workshop "Verkehrs- und Kommunikationsinfrastructur: Strategien una Handlungsspielraume in Ostmitteleuropa 1867-1914", GWZO-Geisteswissenschaftliches Zetrum. Leipzig, Universitat Leipzig. 25 Mai
- Balbi G. (2010) How Subscribers Mattered. The Early Italian Telephone and its Users. First Conference of the ECREA Section Communication History. "User Generated Content. Historical perspectives on the participation of audiences in social communication. Potsdam. 3-5 June
- Balbi G. (2010) Chi conserva e che cosa conservare per la storia dei media. Convegno organizzato dalla Fondazione Telecom Italia "2060: con quali fonti si farà la storia del nostro presente? Tecniche, pratiche e scienze sociali a confronto". Torino, Politecnico. 8-9 aprile
- Balbi G. (2010) How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone as a case study. 8th European Social Science History Conference. Panel: "TEC01: The Development of New Consumer Cultures". Ghent. 13-16 April
- Balbi G. (2010) Discussant. Seminario di studi "Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni", Workshop: "Schermi, spettatori, studi, sondaggi. Ricerche sulla costruzione del pubblico cinematografico e televisivo". Torino, Museo Nazionale del cinema, Bibliomediateca "Mario Gromo". 29 ottobre
- Balbi G. (2009) Doing Media History in 2050. MiT (Media in Transition) 6, "Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission". Panel: Archival Limits? What to Digitize. Boston, MIT. 24-26 April
- Balbi G. (2009) All the Telephone's Men. Politici, imprenditori, tecnici nella storia della telefonia italiana. VI Colloquio Postale dell'Istituto di Studi Storici Postali: "Figure, attori, protagonisti della scena postale nazionale". Prato. 28 Febbraio
- Balbi G. (2009) La storia si ripete? Metabolizzazione del telefono fisso e mobile nelle società italiane di fine secolo. Seminario di studi "Intorno ai media. Scambi e discussioni", Workshop: "Dovunque siate. L'affermazione della telefonia mobile, dinamica di un successo". Università degli studi di Torino. 29 maggio
- Balbi G. (2009) The scary house. When the old telephone gave rise to new fears. IAMHIST conference 2009, "Social Fears and Moral Panics". Panel 1: Media, culture and Victorian/ Edwardian social fears. Aberystwyth University. 8-11 July
- Balbi G., Isabella S. (2009) I media e il privato in pubblico: una storia (intimità e sfera pubblica). Convegno AIS "Le reti socievoli. Fare ricerca sul/nel web sociale". Workshop: La riflessione sociologica sul web sociale: comunità e identità 2. Università di Urbino. 20 Novembre
- Balbi G. (2008) Storia e STS. La telefonia italiana ed i primi abbonati (1880-1915). 2nd General Conference STS-Italia, "Capturing Proteus: Technoscience and Knowledge Society in Europe". Workshop: Processi sociotecnici, pratiche di appropriazione e conoscenza situata. Genova. 19-21 Giugno
- Balbi G. (2008) Mercato, Stato, Pubblico. Storia delle prime società telefoniche italiane 1880-1915. Convegno Quadriennale SISE, "Imprenditorialità e sviluppo economico. Il caso italiano (secc. XIII-XX)". Panel: Imprenditori e tecnologia. ano, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. 14-15 Novembre
- Balbi G., Prario B. (2008) Fininvest/Mediaset and the history of its media strategy. 30 years of politics, market, technology and society. ASMI Annual Conference, "The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges". Session 1.4: Broadcasting Policy. Edinburgh. 21-22 November
- Balbi G. (2005) I vecchi e i giovani. Strategie di mimesi tra old e new media. Convegno AIS "Incerto Quotidiano". Workshop Routine/Innovazione. Napoli. 10-11 novembre
- Balbi G. (2004) City and home lights. Tecnologie d'illuminazione e trasformazioni dell'intimità. Convegno AIS "Legami Sociali. Nuove declinazioni dell'identità individuale e della socialità". Cagliari. 18-19 Giugno
Book review (8)
- Balbi G. (2021) Review of the book "News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945", written by Heidi J. S. Tworek. ARO, IV(3).
- Balbi G. (2020) Review of the book "Minitel. Welcome to the Internet", written by Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll. H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, March, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-26316.
- Balbi G. (2019) Review of the book Marconi: The man who networked the world, written by Marc Raboy. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 26(2), 369-372.
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G. (2017) Book review on Nelson Ribeiro & Stephanie Seul (Eds.) Revisiting transnational broadcasting: the BBC‘s foreign-language services during the Second World War. London, New York: Routledge 2017, 124 pages. Rundfunk und Geschichte, 3–4, 74–75.
- Balbi G. (2015) Review of the book Global Communication Electric: Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy, edited by M. M. Hampf & S. Müller-Pohl. H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, October
- Balbi G. (2014) Il Concilio in diretta: il Vaticano II e la televisione tra informazione e partecipazione. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34(1): 121-122.
- Balbi G. (2014) Review of the book Vie e mezzi di comunicazione in Italia e Spagna in età contemporanea, edited by C. B. López, A. di Vittorio, G. Fenicia & N. Ostuni. The Journal of Transport History, 35(2), 251-252.
- Balbi G. (2011) S. Onger. 2010. Verso la Modernità: I bresciani e le esposizioni industriali 1800-1915. Milan: FrancoAngeli. "Technology and Culture", n. 4, October
Technical report (2)
- Mazzoni P., Ferrigato R., Martini M., Balbi G. (2024) “Communications, media and internet concentration in Switzerland report, 2019-2021.” Global Media and Internet Concentration Project. http://doi.org/10.22215/gmicp/2024.3.19.1.
- Balbi G., Porlezza C., Mazzoni P. (2021) Rapporto del dialogo con gli stakeholder della Svizzera italiana sul Rapporto redatto dai pari dell’ EBU sull’attuazione degli obiettivi strategici 2019-2020 in termini d’offerta da parte della RSI. Società cooperativa per la Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua italiana - CORSI. Istituto Media e Giornalismo (USI).
Conference poster (1)
Other publication (8)
- Lobinger K., Balbi G., Cantoni L. (2019) Guest Editorial to the Thematic Section on ECREA 2018, Studies in Communication Sciences, 19(2), 157–160
- Balbi G., Berth C. (2019) History and Technology, 35(2). Special issue “Towards a telephonic history of technology”.
- Balbi G. (2018) Quaderni di teoria sociale, 1. Parte monografica “Critical turn nel digitale”.
- Fari S., Balbi G. (2017) Curchod, Charles Louis.
- Balbi G., Chen C., Wu J. (2016) Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 7(3). Special Issue on Chinese media history.
- Balbi G., Delfanti A., Magaudda P. (2016) TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 7(1). Double special issue “Digital Circulation. Media, Materiality, Infrastructures”
- Balbi G., Scaglioni M. (2014) VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6). Special issue “Convergent Television(s)”.
- Balbi G., Miconi A., Ortoleva P. (2011) Problemi dell'informazione, 2-3. Special issue “Come cambiano i media. Sfide, categorie, direzioni di ricerca”
