While Italian media industries are booming, changing, and challenging audiences, the existing Anglophone literature on the subject is scarce. Beyond Monopoly fills this gap by engaging with the most recent changes and trends in Italian media.

Current trends of globalization have influenced the social, economic, and political framework of national media worldwide. In recent years, the field of media studies has focused on globalization as a phenomenon that has greatly impacted the production and reception of media formats. By reshaping local economies, diversifying societies, and introducing digital technologies, the globalization of media has enacted a process of re-definition of national and local broadcasting. Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media examines the impact of globalization on contemporary Italian media. By engaging both the production and reception levels of different media, this volume assesses the extent to which Italian media have been part of current trends of media flows and have responded to the centrifugal and centripetal forces of globalization. The contributors to this edited volume touch upon a wide diversity of issues, such as foreign ownership on Satellite TV, the effects of digital technology on media policy making, and the framing of 'Otherness' in the news. Beyond Monopoly provides a unique case study of the complexity of national media in the era of globalization that will appeal to students as well as scholars of global and national media systems.

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction: Italian Media between the Local and the Global
Part 3 Part I: Globalization, Policy, and Technology
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Shaping Tomorrow's Television: Policies on Digital Television in Italy, 1996-2006
Chapter 5 Chapter 2:"Il Caso Canadese" and the Question of Global Media
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Digital Terrestrial Television and its Promises: Framing the Debate on the Transition to Digital Television in Italy
Part 7 Part II: Television Flows and Formats
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Struggling for Identity: The Television Production Sector in Italy and the Challenges of Globalization
Chapter 9 Chapter 5:Public and Private, Global and Local in Italian Crime Drama: The Case ofLa Piovra
Chapter 10 Chapter 6: DubbingThe Simpsons: Or How Groundskeeper Willie Lost His Kilt in Sardinia
Chapter 11 Chapter 7: A Peninsula in the Sea of TV Formats: Exploring Italian Adaptations ofSurvivor
Part 12 Part III:New and Alternative Media
Chapter 13 Chapter 8:E-democracy and Italian Public Administration: New Media at the Service of Citizens
Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Neighborhood Television Channels in Italy: The Case of Telestreet
Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Web-Based Technologies in Media and Cultural Production: Emerging Evidence from Italian Web-Tvs and Web-Radios
Part 16 Part IV:Immigration and Diversity
Chapter 17 Chapter 11:Missed Opportunities: The Debate on Immigrants' Voting Rights in Italian Newspapers and Television
Chapter 18 Chapter 12: Globalization vs. Localization: Anti-immigrant and Hate Discourses in Italy
Chapter 19 Chapter 13:Multiculturalism in New Italian Cinema: The Impact of Migration, Diaspora, and the Post-Colonial on Italy's Self-Representation