Angelo Boccato
Italian journo based in London.
Italian freelance journalist based in London, covering human rights, foreign affairs, politics, migration, EU affairs, social movements and other issues.....there is a new story around every corner.
PROJECTS
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Social Media Matter
Would Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements have reached the same audience if they had not supported by the widespread use of hashtags on social media? Also, how important and significant is the online space provided by social media for marginalised groups?
The Pew Research Center published a report “Activism in the Social Media Age” claiming that “roughly half of black social media users say these platforms are personally important to them when it comes to expressing their ...
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Ricordando Karl Marx in... Brexit - di Angelo Boccato e Alessandro Mariscalco
Karl Marx, del quale ricorre quest'anno il duecentesimo dalla nascita, morì a Londra nel 1883 e, proprio a Londra, da oltre trent’ anni, ha luogo un festival a lui dedicato. Organizzato dal Socialist Workers Party e fondato nel 1977, il Marxism Festival ha cadenza annuale e si svolge sull'arco di quattro giorni.
Diversi i temi affrontati poco meno di un mese fa: dai rifugiati all’ islamofobia, dalle politiche di Trump alla Palestina, con ospiti provenienti non solo dall’ Europa, ma anche da A...
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Lesbian Batwoman Adds to Diversity on Screen
There have been many TV and cinema comic-book adaptations featuring members of marginalised groups in lead roles. “Black Panther” movie based on Marvel Comics character of the same name, featuring predominantly black cast, “has demonstrated the strong economic power of diversity and inclusion on screen.”
But will “Batwoman” prove that a lesbian superhero can be a commercial and critical success?
When it comes to on-screen adaptations, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and ...
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World Cup: Sexism, Racism and Homophobia
It is almost over. There have been some surprises and many disappointments, many fantastic goals. The only unknown now is whether French or Croatian footballers are going home as champions. But what is not leaving the world of sport and sports journalism is racism, sexism and homophobia.
According to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA, sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia. Fans harassing female broadcasters while they worked are among a...
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U.S. Media, Trump and Migrant Children
The American President Donald Trump suspended his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border after some media and public figures clearly expressed their outrage.
There were also publications that supported Trump’s policy while a photograph taken at the border with Mexico ended up at the cover of the Time magazine showing a child, Trump and the headline “Welcome to America”.
Photographer John Moore captured the image of a two-year-old Honduran...
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Dangerous Words of Matteo Salvini
Everyone is talking about Matteo Salvini, as the new Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, he recently called for a census on Roma people with plans to deport non-Italian Roma. “Unfortunately, we have to keep the Italian Roma,” says Salvini, a leader of the far-right party Lega.
He also made headlines by refusing docking rights to the NGO-run Aquarius rescue boat, which had 629 refugees and migrants on board. Last week the international media analysed his far-right, ...
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Media Coverage of the Windrush Generation
The British Parliament Home affairs select committee called for a hardship fund to be set up by the government in order to help victims of the Windrush scandal who have fallen into financial difficulties.
“Members of the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK from 1948, as well as their children, have been wrongly targeted and in some cases left destitute by Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policies, which require employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to ...
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Hungarian Media Campaigns against Refugees and Soros
After the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban won a landslide victory at the elections on Sunday, many international media commented on his anti-immigration rhetoric, his image of “Europe’s bad boy” and the challenges that his nationalistic policy poses to the EU liberal values.
The anti-migrant and refugees narrative has been pushed all over Europe proving to be a successful tool for the right and far-right movements. In Hungary, many media outlets supported the anti-immigration ...
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German Far-right AfD's Digital Artillery
Social media had played a big role in the success of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right party that won 13% in elections in September 2017. AfD also had an assistance of Harris Media, a Texas-based advertising agency whose clients include the British party UKIP and Donald Trump.
Their work could be recognised in an advertising campaign featuring an image of bloody tire tracks crisscrossing European cities, from Berlin to Manchester and Barcelona saying “The tracks left....
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Many Media in Italy Failed to Question Far-Right ahead of Elections
Country: Italy
The anti-migration and racist politics of the Italian Right, repeatedly echoed by the media, has paid off in the March elections. After a particularly toxic electoral campaign, far-right parties such as Matteo Salvini’s League (Lega) and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’ Italia) managed to collect more than 20% of the votes.
The campaign was dominated by fearmongering and attacks against migrants, scapegoats of Italy’s economic problems. A social media analysis by...
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Italy’s far-right rears its head
Does Italy have a hate problem? Looking at recent political developments and the growing anti-migrant feeling amongst the general population and the media, it might appear so.
Italy’s position on the frontline of the ongoing humanitarian disaster facing migrants and refugees trying to reach the safety of Europe via southern Italy - of the 171,635 migrants and refugees that arrived in Europe by sea in 2017, just under 70 per cent landed in Italy according to the International Organization of Migration.......
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Black Panther
Think Disney can't get dirty? Think again! Black Panther is a masterpiece of innovation and creativity, with tons of sociopolitical flavours, plus challenging a long-established orthodoxy in the superhero world! In cinemas Tuesday
Fifty-two years after his first appearance on the pages of the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four, T’ Challa the Black Panther and King of Wakanda, the Afro-futurist North-East African country in the Marvel Universe, has finally been honoured with his standalone Marvel St movie (the 18th superhero instalment in the American franchise owned by Disney, and part of Phase 3).
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The political rehabilitation of Silvio Berlusconi: Italy’s blessing or unceasing curse?
As Italian voters prepare to go to the polls on 4 March, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s controversial former prime minister, is making a stunning comeback on the country’s political scene.
Following the fall of his cabinet in 2011 and a conviction for tax fraud in 2013 (which banned him from public office for six years), Berlusconi stepped away from the spotlight of Italian politics.
However, his 2014 electoral and constitutional reform deal with Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister an...
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Poland’s Turn to the Far-Right: Where are the Media?
The Polish ultra-right protestors made global headlines last November when they marched through Warshaw calling for “White Europe”, “Pure Poland” and “Refugees, get out!”.
Not long afterwards, the ruling Law and Justice party proposed a controversial Holocaust law that forbids “Polish death camps” or suggesting “publicly and against the facts” that the Polish nation or state was complicit in Nazi Germany’s crimes.
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Is the Media Response to Sexual Assaults Colour-Blind?
The “Me Too” movement has led to a change in the media approach towards sexual harassment allegations against men in a position of power, but it has also exposed the lack or a different standard of representation of black women who have denounced sexual harassment.
While the #MeToo hashtag was launched on Twitter in October 2017 by actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the actual movement was founded back in 2006 by a black activist Tarana Burke.