Here I reflect on the experience of writing this blog out of the scratch, while revisiting all the blog posts we I put out hitherto.
How Italian food has become transmediatized
In this post, I reflect on the Italian food’s transmediatized value as references to it grow in different platforms.
Foreign lives in Covid Italy
In this essay, I reflect on the distinct consequences that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to migrants in Italy. I defend that there are visible and invisible migrants as the migratory system creates hierarchies based on individual financial or legal affordances.
What Twitter has to say about Post-Covid Italy
While most countries are still grappling with the impact of Covid-19, some Twitter commentators visualize Italy’s challenges and opportunities in a post-pandemic world.
The murder of Willy Monteiro Duarte reveals the depths of racism in Italy
The murder of Willy Monteiro has shocked Italy, but it is one out of many other race-motivated crimes that have happened in the country in recent years.
The perfect advertisement for ‘ex-pats’ in Italy
In this post, I imagine the perfect company for ex-pats living in Italy. This is a post aimed at students looking for examples of how to get started on writing for advertisement.
A few YouTubers to follow and learn more about life in Italy
This week, I present a list of YouTubers that explore life in Italy. As an example of native digital advertisement, I comment on each one’s profile and what they do talk about in relation to opportunities for paid product placement.
6 years of a big, round, tomato-topped campaign
Almost seven years ago, a group of Italians placed on the change.org website a petition to give the Italian pizza…
Analyzing an Italian politician’s interview
I recovered an interview given by Italian politician and Minister of State Luigi di Maio during the early phase of the pandemics in which I analyze how he ponders facts using political discourse.
Putting Italy’s ongoing garbage crisis on social media
I plan a series of hypothetical social media posts aimed at raising the awareness of the garbage crisis in Italy. Let’s make it viral!
A very short visit to the Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria
In this video, I pay a very short visit to the Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria in Perugia, Italy.
The she-wolf hour: An idea for a podcast about Italy
I discuss an idea I had for a podcast about the city of Rome seen by its foreign residents.
Italy tops rankings of car dependency in Europe
This report reveals shocking data that puts Rome as the most car-dependent city in Europe.
The fascinating (and provocative) messages from the walls of Rome
I started to read the messages on the walls of Rome, then I started to collect them, photograph them. Soon this post came up.
Welcome to the Only in Italy blog!
Welcome to Only in Italy! A blog for exercising writing and talking about Italy, its beauties and its issues.