ABSTRACT
Florence – 13 June 2011, 3:00 pm. After having arrived from my home town, where I voted in the referendums that I am investigating, I join some local activists in the headquarters of arci, 52 to watch and discuss the results. Numerous activists are trying to connect a laptop to a projector, in order to show on a wide screen the livestream of the television broadcasts covering the vote. In the last row, three young activists are checking the electoral website of the Ministry of the Interior, and gathering news from Twitter, looking for new, updated electoral data. Finally, the logo of TG3 (a news programme on the third public tv channel) appears on the wide screen. In the studio, there are no representatives of the referendum committees commenting on the results, and only spokespersons of the main political parties are giving their interpretation of events.
