Gabriele Balbi
http://usi.to/cyi
Publications
Key publications (5)
- Balbi G. (2022) L’ultima ideologia. Breve storia della rivoluzione digitale
- Balbi G., Ribeiro N. ., Schafer V., Schwarzenegger C. (2021) (Eds.) Digital Roots. Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age
- Balbi G., Fickers A. (2020) (Eds.) History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2018) A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective.
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G., Lobinger K. (2018) The Mediatization of the Air. Wireless Telegraphy and the Origins of a Transnational Space of Communication, 1900-1910s
Journal Article (44)
- 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"), 49:141-173
- 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:1513-1530
- 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
- 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:1-19
- 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:1-16
- 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):233-237
- Balbi G., Berth C. (2019) Introduction: Towards a telephonic history of technology, History and Technology, 35(2):105-114
- 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:1-16
- Balbi G. (2018) La “svolta apocalittica” negli studi sul digitale: introduzione, Quaderni di teoria sociale, 1:11-24
- Rikitianskaia M., Balbi G., Lobinger K. (2018) The Mediatization of the Air. Wireless Telegraphy and the Origins of a Transnational Space of Communication, 1900-1910s, Journal of Communication, 68 (4):758-779
- Balbi G. (2017) Ancora tu! L’emersione e la rilevanza della storia dei media nella vita quotidiana., Mediascapes Journal, 8:11-23
- Balbi G. (2017) Wireless’s “Critical Flaw”: The Marconi Company, Corporation Mentalities, and the Broadcasting Option, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, online first:1-22
- Balbi G., Delfanti A., Magaudda P. (2016) Digital Circulation: Media, Materiality, Infrastructures. An introduction, TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 7(1):7-16
- 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):1066-1087
- 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):28-43
- 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, 10:1971-1990
- Balbi G., Chen C., Wu J. (2016) Plea for a (new) Chinese media history, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture:239-246
- 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):21-32
- 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):26-41
- 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):63-79
- Balbi G., Scaglioni M. (2014) Editorial Special Issue on Convergent Television(s)., VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6):1-4
- Natale S., Balbi G. (2014) Media, History, Imaginary: The Role of Fantasies in Different Stages of Media Change, Media History, 20(2):203-218
- Balbi G., Ortoleva P. (2014) Plea for an un-natural history of digital culture, Contemporanea, 3:482-489
- Balbi G. (2014) Quando i nuovi media erano nuovi. Sulle ragioni socio-culturali della precoce metabolizzazione del telefonino in Italia, Studi Culturali, 1:71-76
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2014) Telecommunications Italian Style. The shaping of the constitutive choices (1850-1914), History of Technology, vol. 32:235-258
- 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, 25:150-175
- 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):207-225
- Fari S., Balbi G., Richeri G. (2013) The Bureaucratisation of the Telegraph Union, Storia Economica, 2:377-394
- Balbi G. (2013) The idles mattered. The early Italian telephone and its users, Estudos em Comunicação / Communication Studies, 14:39-58
- Balbi G. (2011) Doing Media History in 2050, "Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture", 8 (2):113-133
- 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) The Origins of the Telephone in Italy, 1877-1915: Politics, Economics, Technology and Society, "International Journal of Communication", 5:1058-1081
- Balbi G. (2011) Un percorso bibliografico nella storia dei media, "Problemi dell'informazione", 2-3: 339-348.
- Balbi G. (2011) Una storia della storia dei media. Mappa di una disciplina in formazione, "Problemi dell'informazione", 2/3: 163-192
- Balbi G. (2010) Radio before Radio: Araldo Telefonico and the invention of Italian broadcasting, "Technology and Culture", 51 (4):786-808
- 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):391-409
- 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, 15:61-80
- Balbi G. (2009) I «parassiti» contano. La telefonia italiana e i primi abbonati (1880-1915), "Studi Culturali", Anno VI (1):43-59
- Balbi G. (2009) Studying the Social History of Telecommunications. Between Anglophone and Continental Traditions, "Media History", 15 (1):85-101
- Balbi G. (2009) Tra stato e mercato. Le prime società telefoniche italiane, 1878-1915, "Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900" (3):447-470
- Balbi G. (2008) Dappertutto telefonini. Per una storia sociale della telefonia mobile in Italia, "Intersezioni" (3):465-490
- Prario B., Balbi G. (2007) Ritorno al Futuro. Il passato e il presente della Mobile TV, "Observatorio (OBS) Journal", 2:103-122
- Balbi G. (2007) Squilli di carta. I primi 40 anni del telefono nelle pagine della letteratura italiana, "Memoria e Ricerca". Fasciolo 25, Maggio-Agosto:127-152
- Balbi G. (2005) I vecchi e i giovani. Strategie di mimesi tra old e new media, "Studies in Communication Sciences", 5 (1):183-204
Book (18)
- 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., 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. ISBN 9781138630222
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2018) A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective.. Milton: Routledge. ISBN 9781138630222
- 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., Magaudda P. (2014) Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Laterza: Roma-Bari. Laterza. ISBN 9788858116272
- Balbi G., Winterhalter C. (2013) (a cura di) Antiche novità. Una guida transdisciplinare per interpretare il vecchio e il nuovo. Napoli: Orthotes
- 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. (2011) Le origini del telefono in Italia. Politica, economia, tecnologia, società. Bruno Mondadori. Milano: Bruno Mondadori
- 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 (28)
- 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,. Berlin, 31-61
- 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, 1-16
- 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, 19-39
- Balbi G. (2020) I media come cose (2011). L. Barra & G. C. Galvagno (Eds.), Media-storie. Lezioni indimenticate di Peppino Ortoleva. Rome: Viella, 51-55
- 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, 1-12
- Balbi G., Di Salvo P. (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, 9-15. ISBN 9788861055421
- 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, 75-81
- 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., 135-152
- Bory P., Negro G., Balbi G. (2019) The tributaries and distributaries of network histories. Computer Network Histories: Emerging Streams from the Internet Past. Chronos, 7-15
- Magaudda P., 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, 7-26
- 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, 30-36
- 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, 31-51
- 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, 10-27
- 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, 205-226
- 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., 231-249
- 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, 35-55
- 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, 59-79
- 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-xy
- 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., 437-448
- 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, 15-36
- 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., 59-75
- 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, 209-222
- Balbi G. (2013) Telephony. in M. Danesi (ed.). Encyclopedia of Media and Communication. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press
- 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., 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)
- 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. (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
- 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
- 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
Report in scientific conference (122)
- 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
- 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
- Balbi G. (2022) Communication is Maintenance. Towards a maintenance culture in communication and media studies. Workshop Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée. online. February
- 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
- 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
- Balbi G. (2022) Il Metaverso è la prossima rivoluzione?. Möbius Incontri 2022. Lugano. October.
- Balbi G. (2022) La rivoluzione a metà: storie della Rete tra miti e limiti. Milano Digital Week. Catholic University, Milan. November
- Balbi G. (2022) La rivoluzione digitale. Miti, racconti, ideologie. Seminar FISPPA e PASTIS University of Padoa. Padoa. October
- 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., Barra L. (2022) (Media) Flow: An Historical Perspective. ECREA 2022 General Conference. Aarhus. October
- Balbi G. (2022) Miti e leggende dell’era digitale. Wired Next Fest. Milano. October
- Balbi G. (2022) Networks. Seminar “Histories of Digital Concepts”, LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge. online. March
- Balbi G. (2022) Storia dell’idea di rivoluzione digitale, 1960-oggi. Narrazioni, ripetizioni, parallelismi. IV Convegno nazionale SISSC. Napoli. June
- 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., Leggero R. (2021) Communication is maintenance. Turning the agenda of media and communication studies upside down. STS Italia 2021. Trieste. June
- Balbi G., Rospocher M. (2021) Networks. ECREA 21 Conference. online. September
- 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. (2021) Old media persistence in the digital era. A theory. ECREA 21 Post Conference “Old Media Persistence”. online. September
- Fomasi M., Balbi G., Barcella D., Benecchi E. (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. (2021) Senza immaginario non ci sono i media. Immaginario e costruzione socio-tecnica dei media. AIS immaginario “L‘immaginario è reale”. online workshop. May
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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., Magaudda P. (2019) Fallimenti digitali. Un’archeologia dei «nuovi» media. Lezione-incontro presso l'Università Sapienza. Roma. Aprile
- 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
- Balbi G. (2019) La memoria della digitalizzazione. Eventi, momenti di svolta e immaginario. Premio Möbius Multimedia Lugano 2019. Lugano, Switzerland. October
- 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
- Bory P., 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., 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., Balbi G. (2019) The birth of CSCS: The past future of supercomputing in Switzerland.. SHOT (Society for the History of Technology). Milan. November
- 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., 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
- 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. (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. (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) Aboliamo i novizi! I benefici di un approccio storico alla digitalizzazione. Summer School Vite Digitali. Essere umani nel XXI secolo. Cuneo. 11-15 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
- Bory P., Natale S., 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
- Balbi G. (2018) Global Trends in Digital Media History. School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University. Beijing. May
- 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
- 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
- Balbi G., , (2018) Media in Cina: prospettive storiche. Invited lecture Università Cà Foscari. Venice. February
- 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
- 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
- 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) 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
- 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
- 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
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2016) "Limiting Digital Media": a Theoretical Approach. STS Italia Conference. Trento. 24-26 November
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) European Memories. A transnational project on media and the process of remembering in Europe. HERA Joint Research Programme, Matchmaking Event. Tallin. 29th January
- Balbi G. (2015) Historicizing Media Convergence as a buzzword, 1970s-2010s. International Communication Forum. Media Convergence in Global Comparative Perspectives. Shanghai. 25 -26 October
- 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
- 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., 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
- Balbi G., Magaudda P. (2015) Storia dei media digitali. Roundtable “Innovazione digitale. Tecnologie, informazione, media”. Osservatorio astronomico la Specola, Padoa. 29 April
- Balbi G. (2015) Storia dei media digitali. PhD meetings “Scienze della mente e delle relazioni umane”. Lecce. 27 February
- 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
- Bory P., Balbi G. (2015) What does “Doing Internet History” Mean?. ECREA (European Communication Research Association), Communication History Workshop. Venice. 16-19 September
- 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
- 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. (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
- 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) Mediastoriografica. Rapporti tra storia dei media e storia della TV. Seminar "Intorno ai media: scambi e discussioni". Turin. 15 December
- Balbi G. (2014) Per una storia dell’idea di servizio pubblico. Workshop “Servizio pubblico e informazione: le nuove sfide”. Lugano. 20 March
- Balbi G. (2014) Questioning “media convergence” through history. ECREA (European Communication Research Association) General Conference. Lisbon. 13-16 November
- 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
- Balbi G. (2014) The re-emerging past. Reflections on media historiography. NSF-Kolloqium, NCCR Mediality, Universität Zürich. Zurich. 25 November
- 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
- Cerulo M., 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., Richeri G. (2013) 3 options for a research in media and mobility. Workshop Peripheral Mobilities. Granada. 13 November
- 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) 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) Deconstructing “media convergence”: A cultural history of a buzzword, 1980s-2000s. Deconstructing Media Convergence Conference. Salzburg. 21-23 November
- 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. (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) 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) 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
- 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., 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
- 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. (2012) Invited Speaker. YECREA Panel at ECREA General Conference. Istanbul. 25 October
- 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) 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. (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) Invited speaker. YECREA workshop at Communication History Section 2011 Conference. Dublin. 7 September
- 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) 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. (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) 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) 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., 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. (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) 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. (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) 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., 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. (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) 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., 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. (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., 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. (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. (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. (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
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”
