"Hello, is the Mayor Here?" Local Politics in Turin Private Broadcasting. The Case of Videogruppo Piemonte

Riccardo Fassone is associate professor at the University of Turin, where he teaches Digital Media History and Video Game History and Theory. His research areas are the analysis of play within media, the relation between video games and other media, and popular film. He is the author of Every Game is an Island (Bloomsbury, London 2017), Cinema e videogiochi (Carocci, Rome 2017), and co-author of Fictional Games (with Stefano Gualeni, Bloomsbury, London 2023). He is among the founders of GAME – The Italian Journal of Game Studies, and also works as a game designer. 

Paola Zeni is post-doc research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin, where she collaborates on the national research project Survey on the Community of Screenwriters in the Italian Audiovisual Industry (PRIN 2022). Her work focuses on film stardom and acting, and she has also been part of the project ATLas. Atlas of Local Television (PRIN 2020). She co-edited Sotto queste forme quasi infinite (with Francesca Cecconi and Caterina Diotto, Mimesis, Milan-Udine 2021) and is the author of L’amazzone bianca. Luisa Ferida attrice e diva dell’Italia fascista (Mimesis, Milan-Udine 2022) and Glamour and Pleasure. Bridgerton e la reinvenzione del period drama (Infinito, Formigine 2025).