Enrico Albanesi, Alessandra Valastro, Roberto Zaccaria, Diritto dell’informazione e della comunicazione, XII edizione, Milano, Wolters Kluwer-Cedam, 2023

Abstract

The review focuses on the common thread running through the twelfth edition of the handbook E. Albanesi, A. Valastro, R. Zaccaria, Diritto dell’informazione e della comunicazione, Milano, Cedam-Wolters Kluwer, 2023, i.e. a critical analysis of the constitutional principle of pluralism. The principle was established in Italy by the Constitutional Court from the 1970s/1980s with regard to the television broadcasting system. The Constitutional Court, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights still refer to it in their case law. However, such a principle should now be established with regard to the digital environment born with the digital revolution, the transformation of the Internet and the web 2.0 in the second half of the 2000s. The handbook argues that the implementation of the principle is a challenge for constitutionalism, due to the role played in the public sphere by online global platforms.