Professor of Communication and Dean of the Redemptor Hominis Istituto at the Pontifical Lateran University. He lectures on the semiotics of cinema and audiovisuals at the LUISS “Guido Carli” University where he is also a member of the managing board of the “Massimo Baldini” Centre for Media and Communication Studies. He is President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and editor-in-chief of “Rivista del Cinematografo” and is also a member of the Administrative Council for the ‘Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia’.
His published works include: La musa impara a digitare. Uomo, media e società (Rome 2009); La Chiesa nel tempo dei media (Rome 2008); Gesù e la macchina da presa. Dizionario ragionato del cinema cristologico (Rome 2005); and, with Ruggero Eugeni, Attraverso lo schermo. Cinema e cultura cattolica in Italia, III vols (Rome 2006).
The members
Don Antonio Ammirati
Director and television screenwriter, from 2002 he worked for the Social Communications office of the Italian Episcopal Conference, and in particular in the running of the television sector. From 2004 he was responsible for the Italian Episcopal Conference of the transmission of the Sunday Mass on Rai Uno and TG1 consultant for the live broadcasts of the celebrations by the Pope. In October 2008, he was the director and coordinating director of the “La Bibbia giorno e notte”, the complete reading of the Bible which took place in Rome in the basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, broadcast on RAI, a nonstop sequence which lasted 139 hours (6 days). In 2009 he became consultant of the religious information section “A Sua Immagine”, for which he also edited the special “Al centro della vita”, a programme which was created for the XXV National Eucharistic Congress in Ancona, brocast live on Rai Uno. Since 2010 he has worked as a freelance journalist for the Order of Calabria.
Dott. Loris Salamon
Accountant Loris Salamon Was born in Latina on 25th July 1937, he has been registered with the Registry of Labour and Employment Advisors since 1984. In that year he set up, with the participation of his daughters, registered with the Registry of Chartered Accountants and Qualified Bookkeepers in Rome, the "Studio Commerciale accountant Loris, Carla e Paola Salamon", with professional service in the tax, fiscal, company and labour field. Nominated Official Auditor with Ministerial Decree 09/07/1993 published in the Italian Official Journal No 58 of 23/07/1993. He has been member of the board of statutory auditors for different companies.
Prof. Ruggero Eugeni Full professor of Media Semiotics at the Catholic University of S. Cuore (the Sacred Heart) and Director of “Almed” (Post Graduate School of Media , Communication and Performing Arts.) at the same University. He is a member of the Administrative Board of the Italian Film library Foundation in Milan. His main works include: Il testo visibile. teoria, storia e modelli di analisi (in collaboration with Fausto Colombo: Rome, 1996), Invito al cinema di Stanley Kubrick (Milan, new ed. 2001), Analisi semiotica dell’immagine. Pittura, illustrazione, fotografia, (Milan, new ed. 2004), Film, sapere, società. Per un’analisi sociosemiotica del testo cinematografico, (Milan, 1999), La relazione d'incanto. Studi su cinema e ipnosi (Milan, 2002). He edited together with Fausto Colombo Il prodotto culturale. Teorie, tecniche di analisi, case histories (Rome, 2001) and with Dario E. Viganò Attraverso lo schermo. Cinema e cultura cattolica in Italia, 3 voll. (Rome, 2006). His most recent work is Semiotica dei media. Le forme dell’esperienza (Rome, 2010).
Prof. Michele Sorice
Is Professor of Political Communication and of Media Studies at LUISS University of Rome, where he is also director of the CMCS – Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”. At LUISS University he also teaches at the School of Journalism and at the LUISS Writing School and he is member of the scientific board of the PhD in Political Theory.As Invited Professor, he teaches Political Communication and Political Science at Pontifical Gregorian University.He is member of the Advisory Board of the Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association of the UK and coordinator of some European research networks; he is the director of the international research centre Political Communication Lab. He has been teaching Media Sociology for 6 years at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, and was Professor at the University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy until 2008.He helds lectures and conferences in some European Universities. His main research topics concern the political communication, the media audiences, the relationships between media and identity, the cultural industries, the social networking and the relationships between media and social participation.