Foreword -- Introduction Italian Media between the Local and the Global -- Part One GLOBALIZATION, POLICY, AND TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter One Shaping Tomorrow's Television: Policies on Digital Television in Italy, 1996-2006 -- Chapter Two "Il Caso Canadese" and the Question of Global Media -- Chapter Three Digital Terrestrial Television and Its Promises: Framing the Debate on the Transition to Digital Television in Italy -- Part Two TELEVISION FLOWS AND FORMATS -- Chapter Four Struggling for Identity: The Television Production Sector in Italy and the Challenges of Globalization -- Chapter Five Public and Private, Global and Local in Italian Crime Drama: The Case of La Piovra -- Chapter Six Dubbing The Simpsons: Or How Groundskeeper Willie Lost His Kilt in Sardinia -- Chapter Seven A Peninsula in the Sea of TV Formats: Exploring Italian Adaptations of Survivor -- Part Three NEW AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA -- Chapter Eight E-democracy and Italian Public Administration: New Media at the Service of Citizens -- Chapter Nine Neighborhood Television Channels in Italy: The Case of Telestreet -- Chapter Ten Web-Based Technologies in Media and Cultural Production: Emerging Evidence from Italian Web-TVs and Web-Radios -- Part Four IMMIGRATION AND DIVERSITY -- Chapter Eleven Missed Opportunities: The Debate on Immigrants' Voting Rights in Italian Newspapers and Television -- Chapter Twelve Globalization vs. Localization: Anti-immigrant and Hate Discourses in Italy -- Chapter Thirteen Multiculturalism in New Italian Cinema: The Impact of Migration, Diaspora, and the Post-Colonial on Italy's Self-Representation1 -- Index -- About the Contributors.