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Marta Perrotta
Marta Perrotta is a researcher in the Department of Communication at Roma Tre University and teaches Writing for Television and History of Broadcasting. She graduated in Communication Sciences at Rome University La Sapienza in July 2000 and later worked for a private radio network (RDS) in Rome. She has a Ph.D. in Communication and New Technologies from IULM University, Milan on Aesthetics of TV Formats and Production Cultures in Reality Television. She received a post-doctorate position at Roma Tre University, studying International Format Trade and Domestication practices. She has been working as writer, editor and author with radio and TV production companies (mainly for Rai and Mediaset).
Her publications include, Il Format Televisivo. Caratteristiche, circolazione internazionale, usi e abusi (Urbino, Quattroventi, 2007); L’ABC del fare radio (Roma, Dino Audino Editore, 2003); Le marche comunicative dell’emittenza privata e pubblica. Una ricerca empirica nell’universo radiofonico nazionale, in La radio, territori e percorsi di un mezzo mobile e interattivo, edited by Enrico Menduni (Bologna, Baskerville, 2002); A Peninsula in the Sea of TV Formats: Exploring Italian Adaptations of Survivor, in Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media, edited by Michela Ardizzoni e Chiara Ferrari (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010); Radio screens. Radio and cinema in Italy, radio on Italian cinema, The Radio Journal: December 2008, volume 6 (2&3); with Tiziano Bonini On and off the air: radio-listening experiences in the San Vittore prison, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 29 n. 2, 2007; with Virginia Massarelli, Podcasting: a change for listeners, a challange for broadcasters, in Relating Radio. Communities. Aesthetics. Access, edited by Golo Föllmer and Sven Thiermann (Leipzig, Zukunft des Radios, 2006). She translated David Hendy's book Radio in the global age into Italian, as well as David Lyon's book Jesus in Disneyland. She edited the Italian translation of the book Basic Radio Journalism by Paul Chantler and Peter Stewart.
