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This study investigates how European journalists evaluate the changes that have occurred in their profession since the Internet has been integrated in newsrooms. How do journalists perceive the features and innovations associated with the Internet? What are the principal changes in the profession? Do practitioners believe that the quality of journalism has been raised or lowered? To answer to these research questions, we carried out a survey across 11 European countries–Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden–of 239 journalists, working for 40 of the most‐read print/online news outlets in these countries. The survey shows that the opportunity to use the Internet to reinforce the social functions of journalism has not been fully recognised.

Effect of thennomechanical transfonnation and type of stabilization on fonnability of ELI 18 Cr 2 Mo and 21 Cr 3 Mo ferritic stainless steels lnfonnation from the Dalmine SpA., Costa Volpino, and from the Centro Sperimentale Metallurgico SpA., Rome-Eur (Italy)*) Effect of Ti, Nb, Ti+Nb and of cold rolling shedule on fonnability of stabilized ELI 18 Cr 2 Mo and 21 Cr 3 Mo steels. Single step reduction of around 80 % followed by continuous annealing: 3 min at 900 °C confer exceptional deep drawing properties. Ti strongly favours textures, Nb slackens them, Ti+Nb is a satisfactory balance of very high deep drawing properties and low planar anisotropy. Der EinfluB von thermomechanischerUmwandlung und Art der Stabilisierung auf die Umformbarkeit der nichtrostenden ferritischen Stahle ELI 18 Cr 2 Mo und 21 Cr 3 Mo Der EinfluB von Ti, Nb, Ti+Nb und des Kaltwalzens auf die Umfonnbarkeit der stabilisierten Stahle ELI 18 Cr 2 Mo und 21 Cr 3 Mo. Ungefahr 80% Abnahme in einem Stich mit anschlieBendem kontinuierlichem Gluhen 3min bei 900°C bewirken auBergewohnliche Tiefzieheigenschaften. Ti begunstigt die Entwicklung von Texturen mit den besten Tiefzieheigenschaften, Nb schwacht sie, Ti+Nb sind ein zufriedenstellender Ausgleich von sehr hohen Tiefzieheigenschaften und niedriger planarer Anisotropie.

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The paper explores the advanced users of mobile phones in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK (EU5 countries) and aims to clarify the social meaning of advanced use. The mobile phone is seen as a strategic tool of social labour, whose capabilities are exploited to a different extent in the five studied countries. The analysis is based on a cross-national survey data collected in 2009 (N = 7,255). First, the results show that there are substantial differences in the advanced use of mobile phone and its predictors in Europe. Generally, only about one third of the studied mobile features are exploited. British and French people are the most advanced users, followed by German, Spanish and Italians. While Italians have stuck to early developed mobile phone features, Britons especially have continued to adopt the newer properties of the mobile phone. Second, the article shows that owing to the extensive under-utilization of its features, the mobile phone as a tool of social labour is efficiently exploited by only a small number of people. They, however, constitute technological vanguards that make use of the diverse features in different countries. This limited use of advanced features results in the new patterns of social stratification.

The aim of this article is to advance theoretically the debate on the interrelation between robotization and the domestic sphere. I adopt a critical approach to the political economy about the diffusion of machines in the domestic sphere (unexpected and not predicted by the classical theories of capital) and the automation of everyday life, including that of the human body. In the first part, I focus on why robotics has shifted from the industrial sectors in the domestic sphere and on which features characterize today this sector. Then, I describe the trends that robotics has put in motion in the domestic sphere and Europeans’ attitudes toward it. In the final part, I analyze the processes of automation that are taking place. I will conclude posing the problem of what kind of society we want to build and live in by introducing the social robots and which future perspectives emerge at social level.