In recent years, the whistleblowing agenda has advanced technically, legally and journalistically. This panel composed by journalists, activists and academics will map the advances in the right to tel...
Philip Di Salvo
Philip Di Salvo is a post-doctoral researcher at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)'s Institute of Media and Journalism. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)'s Department of Media and Communications. Philip does research about whistleblowing, investigative journalism, internet surveillance and the relationship between journalism and hacking. At USI, he teaches journalism both at the Master and Bachelor levels.
Philip received his PhD in Communication Sciences from USI with a dissertation about the adoption of encrypted whistleblowing platforms in journalism in summer 2018. Since 2018, Philip is also a lecturer at NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. As a freelance journalist, he writes for Wired, Motherboard/Vice, Esquire and other publications covering the social impacts of technology.
Philip has authored two books: Leaks. Whistleblowing e hacking nell'età senza segreti (LUISS University Press, Rome, 2019) and Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism. Encrypting Leaks (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020).
The many shapes of leaks: investigative reporting, data activism and digital resistance as truth-telling practices
In recent years, the whistleblowing agenda has advanced technically, legally and journalistically. This panel composed by journalists, activists and academics will map the advances in the right to tel...
Facing the challenges of a datafied society: how journalist, activists and hackers can make sense of datafication. The contemporary datafied society is hybrid in nature: information technology, polic...
Public concerns across the world have risen to near-panic levels over social media, filter bubbles, echo chambers, and the disinformation attributed to these technologies, particularly in the aftermat...
Hacks, leaks and data breaches are more and more frequently becoming objects of interest for journalists. Recent cases, such as the DNC email cache released by WikiLeaks or the Hacking Team hack, chal...
Attacks, drugs, terrorism, spies: myths, realities and conflicts of cyber journalism
What is spyware? Why does any information technology incident become a cyberattack for the media? When a politician invokes the end of anonymity on social networks, what exactly is he talking about? ...
How we saved Chelsea Manning's life: when activists, lawyers and journalists mobilize together online
ijf17talk by Evan Greer. Moderator Philip Di Salvo. In May 2017 Chelsea Manning will walk free after 7 years in jail. Manning is the whistleblower who provided WikiLeaks with access to some of its m...
Drone strikes are among the most defining elements of contemporary warfare. Both when used in conventional war scenarios or for targeted killing programs, military armed drones are usually operated be...
What does Italian news publishing already have, what does it lack and what does it need? There are five directives to follow in order to move innovation in digital media in Italy: business models, a...
Hacking the newsroom. How hackers and journalists are working together to change the shape of journalism to come. Hackers, coders and programmers are more and more frequently embedded in journalist...
In 2013 the Snowden revelations showed how digital communication can’t be considered safe by journalists dealing with whistleblowers and sources and underlined the need for better and stronger too...
Manning and the others: traitors, spies or heroes? Media reporting and whistleblowing
May 2015 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Manning is the US soldier who became the source of some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks published in 2010. Thanks to Manning’...
In the past few years the relevance of “Digital Leaks” (OffshoreLeaks, Cables, Snowden, etc) has been an important enabling factor for investigative journalism development. The famous “big inter...
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