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Premio Baskerville Mauro Wolf


R E G U L A T I O N S


1. The Baskerville Prize “Mauro Wolf” is reserved to students and researchers born after December 31, 1971.

2. The essays and studies should have communication, media and information as main theme, with particular reference to their effects on society in its cultural, economic and political aspects.

3. The essays should be unpublished (on books as well as on the web), the copyright exclusive of the author, complete with table of contents, bibliography, and consisting of a maximum of 60.000 strokes (approximately 30 typewritten pages of 30 lines, 60 strokes each line). The essays should be accompanied with an abstract composed of a maximum of 500 strokes, containing a summary of the contents.

4. All the texts should be sent, by May 15, 2006, by e-mail to the address premio@baskerville.it, in form of attachments in MS Word format. All the texts sent by ordinary mail will not be taken into account nor will they be returned.

5. All participants should send by email an acceptance message of the Premio Baskerville Mauro Wolf Regulations, complete with first name, surname, date of birth, address and place of residence, phone number, e-mail address and personal data handling permission.

6. The assessment of the texts will be made by unappealable judgement of the Baskerville Prize Scientific Committee, made up of teachers and contributors to Baskerville Research Center, coordinated by Maurizio Marinelli (Baskerville) and Patrizia Adamoli (Kinder.Kom). The names of the members of the scientific committee will be given up only at the end of the selection and after the awarding of the Prize.

7. The scientific committee of the Baskerville Prize will have the faculty to recommend a first short-list of texts for the publishing (in PDF format) in a special area of the Baskerville Research Center website: http://www.baskerville.it/premioB .

8. Within this short-list, the scientific committee will recommend a narrow short-list of texts that will be published in a book inside a series founded in 1993 by Mauro Wolf, the Baskerville Communication Sciences Library.

9. The selected authors will receive by e-mail the formal communication of the selection of their text, together with the Baskerville Research Center contract of publishing, that should be signed for acceptance and sent back by registered letter.

10. The book of the Baskerville Prize will be put up for sale according to the forms and conditions that Baskerville Research Center will consider proper, and will be promoted according to the usual modalities of Baskerville Research Center.

11. Each author of the published texts could collect two (2) copies of the book at Baskerville Research Center.

12. The authors of the texts selected for digital publishing and possible following print publishing agree to allow such publications by Baskerville, which will hold the relative rights indefinitely; they renounce (for them and for third party) every claim of royalties and fees, being understood Baskerville’s right of full use of the texts and the quotation of the author and the relative personal data.

13. Amongst the selected texts, the winner of the Baskerville Prize “Mauro Wolf” 2006 will be indicated, who will receive the certificate during the days of the Kinder.Kom conference, 2006 edition.

14. The scientific committee, in case it should not receive works judged fit by its unappealable judgement, will reserve the right not to award the prize.

15. The personal data provided by all interested people for the participation in the Baskerville Prize will be used only for all the activities linked to the management of the Prize itself, and on no account will they be transmitted to third party.

16. In accordance with the laws regarding privacy (art. 13, law 675/96), every participant has the right to ask for the updating or the cancellation of his/her data with a request addressed to the Direction of Baskerville Research Center, responsible of the data treatment, at the address: direzione@baskerville.it .

For further information on Baskerville Prize:
premio@baskerville.it .


Baskerville is a non-profit association founded in 1986, whose purpose is the study and divulgation of researches and analysis on communications, information, cultural studies and media, particularly regarding the social and economic effects of their impacts on society.
Chairman: Maurizio Marinelli.
Managing committee: Maurizio Marinelli, Mario Marinelli, Maurizio Petta.

Baskerville
Centro Studi sulla Comunicazione
Via S. Stefano 10 - CP 113 - 40125 Bologna, Italia
Fax: + 051 23 23 23 - eMail: info@baskerville.it