Gianluca D'Agostino
Gianluca D'Agostino worked for major news organizations like CNN and Associated Press. He holds a Ph.D in theory of Information and Communication.
His research focus is on the relationship between narratives and marketing in film and television. He was a researcher at Stanford and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley.
His research focus is on the relationship between narratives and marketing in film and television. He was a researcher at Stanford and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley.
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Articles by Gianluca D'Agostino
December 16, 2011
Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham did not open a book in their entire lives neither they went to an art exhibit if not by accident and they cannot name a single greek sculpture nor they could name an Italian painter or a French poet. Why? Because if this wasn't the case at this time they wouldn't have made one of their model wearing leather socks. These people are destroying the only thing that can really prevent our culture to disappear: our history and our art. Please don't allow them to destroy real beauty.
November 14, 2011
Yesterday I watched Mike Huckabee celebrating Veterans Day in Branson, Missouri with about 5000 veterans. I would be very curious to know if those veterans knew that Mr. Huckabee back in January 2011 called for Congress to repeal the Obama health care law passed last year that provides free healthcare for those in need, including almost 3000 U.S. veterans who die every year because they cannot afford health care insurance. It's a strange way to behave that of Mr. Huckabee, it's also a very strange way to celebrate U.S Veterans.
November 16, 2011
Like every issue involving the government, the ET petition´s response lies within the boundaries of the United States Federal Law system and its mechanisms. This means that when you petition such an important government institution that has at its own disposal the world´s top legal advisors, you cannot simply write a question as if you file a Police complaint. It is at least strange that the two petitioners ignored such a thing before questioning the White House...
March 22, 2011
That's not possible!!! there's something above the American law???
Well I am sorry to disappoint you but yes there is. Indeed any international law is above any domestic law of every nation that agreed to a specific international treaty. Fox News anchors like Steve Doocy and his thug Judge Andrew Napolitano should have
stayed in school!!!
December 03, 2010
The Wikileaks documents reveal what the Americans think of the world but they cannot say it officially. Why they can't say it? Simply because America's opinion is not shared by the rest of the world. In practice it's a solo opinion. The problem is that America's interests are only America's interests that's why its opinion cannot be popular and shared by the rest of the world. America holds the unique position of world's controller, how can its opinion be shared by somebody outside of it?
So basically Wikileaks serves as America's outsource on its opinion of the rest of the world. Period. That's what Wikileaks was born for.
November 22, 2010
I am not saying that Mr. Assange is a Public Relations expert who has been hired by the Pentagon or the US government as we do not have any evidence of it, more probably he might just be a jerk looking for a job.
The major evidence is however to be found on the reactions from media and institutions, because in any media campaign what really matters is the reaction you provoke from your action. Here is the main and most important: "Wikileaks put the soldiers lives in great danger". And this is the main objective of all this huge propagandistic operation: to recall the audience that there´s a war going on somewhere and our poor soldiers are risking their lives and that these risks have been increased by the irresponsible behaviour of Wikileaks….
November 13, 2010
The premise of an extraterrestrial disclosure process in my view is basically that earthlings would perceive the confrontation with ETs as a great occasion to learn something on themselves, on life and the Universe. Basically it's going to be like the first day of school and we would feel like very eager if not thirsty to learn how to improve our lives while looking up to somebody who knows life more than we do
The possible outcome of this confrontation will result as direct consequence from the human point view in 1) a deep sense of shame on how we conduct our life and business here and what we should act like, according to THEIR point of view. 2) a consequent strong need for real change, mostly inside of ourselves. Given the fact that a more evolved civilization would have a greater spiritual dimension than ours, they probably would be horrified by the fact that here on earth human beings are still practicing killings, assaults and basically behaving like wild primitive animals at all levels.
July 08, 2010
Indeed this world conformism applying the European model is really destroying the meaning of the World Cup. Once the world cup was a chance to see how the different models challenged each other from the Dutch total football to the Brazilian magic 4-2-4 and the Italians with their boring slow but unpredictable approach that made it possible for world watchers to enjoy an unrepeatable match like Italy - Brazil won 3-2 by Italy on July 5 1982 at the Espanol stadio de Sarria in Barcelona where it was played probably the most beautiful football match in the entire history of this game.
April 29, 2010
"Extraterrestrials",(even this name is inappropriate) are certainly more evolved than us and certainly not only under the technological point of view. They are much more spiritually evolved than us. That's for sure. What Stephen Hawking did with his statement was the most common mistake a human being can make: self-projection.
March 24, 2010
6 million American fellow citizens are out of the healthcare coverage in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
I would like to know what Paul Broun or John Boehner who both claimed that American people rejects this healthcare bill, I would like to know what these two "gentlemen" have to say to 6 millions of their fellow citizens.
March 23, 2010
The truth is that for the majority of American citizens the situation about their healthcare cannot really worsen than what it's like at present: 50 millions people uninsured, 100 millions underinsured 50 thousands people dying each year because they cannot afford appropriate cares.
I don´t really know of who Mr. Bohener referred to while speaking of misrepresentation...probably of himself. 100 millions people it´s a third of the entire U.S. population....
February 27, 2010
If you look into this issue in deep, there's really no concrete reason for not
stopping this pretentious english tramp. No one single reason.
This demonstrates how psychology still plays such a great role in global business.
And because italians are all sons of a mother, and the mamma is always the mamma.
Being mrs. Wintour a woman and mother (are we sure?) italians just do what comes
more spontaneous to them: they bend over!!! And when you in such position Anna
does what he does at her best: she fills your heart and soul with her editorial power
and the italians feel so good.
February 25, 2010
Indeed according to this Italian judge abusing a person with disability
it's lawful unless you show it in a video and upload it to
youtube.
February 02, 2010
But the scandal reached its peak when Mr.Seacrest kept asking musicians what they were wearing after he had the guts to loosen his tie. It seemed the final scene of the Big Kahuna, being Mr. Seacrest one of the Salesmen. Genius. Seacrest is a real film-aware genius. This was the most provocative contradictory part of the show. Ryan Seacrest is the most ubiquitous new Hollywood genius who seems to overreign almost on every American tv show.
January 21, 2010
The problem is here we re not talking just of Baaria which is also the first "italian blockbuster". Here we re talking about the entire Italian film production that is completely unaware of what a complex narrative structure is made of. They don't know what structure, character development, subtext or unconscious narrative level is.
In order to supply some help for my home country I have published a book in Italian last year: "High Concept, marketing and narratives in hollywood movies" that is a sort of introduction to the hollywood screenwriting formula.
December 07, 2009
In an Italian blog, bloggers talk of exchanging Amanda Knox with the two authors of the The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998, known as the "Massacre of Cermis": a manslaughter made by two US marines pilots who killed 20 European nationals when their warfare aircraft of the USMC, struck the cables supporting a cable car in Cavalese, Italy, after flying low through the valley at more than 500 mphThe cable was severed and 20 people in the cabin plunged over 80 metres to their deaths. The 20 people killed were all European nationals:eight Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, one Austrian and one Dutch. Italian prosecutors wanted the four Marines to stand trial in Italy, but NATO treaties gave jurisdiction to U.S. military courts. It was then discovered that the marines used to fly by the cable car as a sort of challenging game that u.s pilots used to enjoy in what they called "the best playground in the world".
December 03, 2009
I am not blaming Mr. Egan for his ingenous attempt neither for his total ignorance on the subject as he's not supposed to have a jurisprudential knowledge. I am blaming the New York Times for letting such naive people express their simple bias like in a pizza restaurant. Desperate.
November 19, 2009
In the end this entire argument that has been raised against google and other copyright use can be judged with all due respect as "stupid" because if you threat abandoning google it's like if you threat yourself and your visibility in the world.
As google is today's world, period.
November 06, 2009
In all European civilized countries there is socialist healthcare payed by richer citizens for the poorer side of the population. Some who call themselves American patriots, like Bill O'Reily foreinstance don't recognize the concept of egalitarianism and are happy to keep their fellow American citizens as needy third world country citizens who needs the cares of international charities to provide them for healthcare. I would love to ask Mr. O´Reilly what he thinks of the pictures of the Ingelwood Forum remote area medical
October 30, 2009
after the video ended she made the most UNspontaneous speech ever made. If she picked up a paper sheet and read it up she probably would have made her reading less evident.
October 21, 2009
In the O'Reilly tv show, Mr. O'Reilly sells mugs and t-shirts merchandise with the sign "american patriot". Patriotism literally means "love and devotion for one´s country welfare" And here´s the biggest contradiction: how can O´Reilly call himself "American patriot" if he claims every day that income redistribution for the poorer American citizens is not economic justice? Where is his patriotism here?
October 17, 2009
Sean Comb's psychotic episode demonstrates that getting out of the hood does not mean you will become a better educated person