Alessio Perrone

Milan

Freelance Writer, Reporter and Translator at Freelance

Freelance writer • Seen in @Guardian @TIME @SciAm @atlasobscura and others • Guest editor @Narratively • Governing board @stampaesterami

Articles

Various Configurations for Improving the Efficiency of Metallic and Superconducting Photocathodes Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition: A Comparative Review

Oct 29, 2024 | mdpi.com | Alessio Perrone |Muhammad Rizwan Aziz |Muhammad Rizwan |Francisco Gontad

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The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative

Aug 19, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Gabija Steponenaite |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides

The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it. We highlight examples from around the world of states censoring films that show them in a bad light and pushing narratives that help them to scrub up their reputation, as well as lending a voice to those who use cinema as a form of dissent.
UK journalists fall victim to new police tactics

Aug 5, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Matt Broomfield |Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone

London’s Metropolitan Police have declared they plan to use pre-emptive arrests more frequently in response to ongoing protests. Credit: Yukiko Matsuoka via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Two UK photo-journalists have recently been arrested while covering an ecological protest and a pro-Palestine demonstration, in the latter case prior to the protest even taking place.
Vladimir Kara-Murza: The dissident spirit of Russia

Aug 2, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides

There is a tendency to see Russia as a huge monolithic entity with a matching ideology. This is the expansionist, imperial Russia that poisons its enemies and kidnaps their children. It is the Russia of the gulags, of Putin, Stalin and the Tsars. But there is another Russia. It is the Russia of the eight brave students who stood in Red Square in 1968 to demonstrate against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and inspired the founders of this magazine.
Russia: Index welcomes release of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Evan Gershkovich from jail

Aug 1, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides |Sam Edwards |Katie Dancey-Downs

Index on Censorship welcomes the news that Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist, author, filmmaker and fierce Putin critic, and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich have today been released as part of a multi-country prisoner exchange including Russia and the USA. The prisoner swap, one of the largest ever, has taken place in Ankara under the auspices of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency and involves 26 people held in Russia, Belarus, the USA, Germany, Slovenia, Norway and Poland.
First they came for the Greens

Jul 31, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides |Sam Edwards |Martin Bright

German Green Party leader Ricarda Lang was heckled in Schorndorf during the European elections. Photo: Elke WetzigOn 14 February, as the upper echelons of Germany’s Green Party prepared to descend on the south-western town of Biberach for their annual meeting, demonstrators blocked access to the town hall with tractors, paving stones, sandbags and manure. Things took a more aggressive turn when three police officers were injured by protesters hurling objects.
The AI apps helping the world's low-income farmers work smarter

Jul 22, 2024 | devex.com | Alessio Perrone

Smartphone apps and chatbots are diagnosing pests and farm animal diseases and dispensing crop-specific advice based on the weather — even for farmers with limited literacy or internet connectivity. Christina Matsenga had a problem: her goat had stopped eating. The farmer from Ndodo, a village in Malawi’s Lilongwe district, knew a smartphone-based chatbot could help — even if she didn’t have a smartphone herself.
How Europe’s Conspiracy Influencers Went From Covid-19 to the Climate

Jul 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sam Edwards |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides

On a cold morning in late February, farmer Gareth Wyn Jones was standing with a few dozen other protesters outside the annual conference for the Conservative Party in Wales. Inside the venue, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was giving a speech to the Welsh branch of the Conservatives. Wyn Jones and other farmers were here to voice anger at policies by the Labour Party and to demand Sunak’s support.
PiMC: Episode 690 - Shopping In The Mens Department

Jun 19, 2024 | player.fm | Alessio Perrone

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Are compostable sneakers soon ready for mass production?

Jun 12, 2024 | sgieurope.com | Alessio Perrone

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