What are the Observatory activities?
With the research area dedicated to the Future of Publishing, the Observatory aims to understand how the needs of readers are evolving, in what measure the frontiers of the digital innovation affect the publishing practices and what are the responses of the actors involved.
For these reasons one of the main themes of this research area is the digital transition, taken into consideration as a privileged laboratory in which to investigate that profound reshuffling of audiences and platforms, channels and ways through which to intercept new needs, which are increasingly changing.
Another pivotal theme is that of innovation, understood as the set of processes and technologies that are profoundly transforming the publishing landscape and, therefore, require constant attention.
Gli obiettivi
- Understand transformations in the publishing industry critically, by monitoring trends and innovations and analyzing markets and audiences;
- Monitor and promote projects, practices, and policies that suggest solutions and possible alternatives to the challenges posed by the digital transition;
- Connecting virtuous networked experiences with possible degrees of formalization, with a focus on the most innovative forms of content creation and dissemination;
- Disseminate creative and multiple manifestations of collective intelligence united by the desire to promote the culture of books and reading.
Network
- Università degli Studi Roma Tre;
- Università di Harvard;
- Politecnico di Milano;
- NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.