Zavafilms of Los Angeles, California, has optioned the film and tv rights to Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. The initial 14-month option period will be renewable pending the producer’s obtention of development funding and completion of an initial draft of the feature-length screenplay. https://wcaltd.com/wca-deal-report-for-february-21-2025/ Marc Raboy presented the Italian edition of Marconi: L’uomo …
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Looking for Alicia wins Jacob Isaac Segal award
Looking for Alicia won the 2024 Jacob Isaac Segal award for Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme, offered by the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. https://jewishpubliclibrary.org/events-programs-courses/jisegal-awards-2024/ The jury’s citation reads: “Marc Raboy’s Looking for Alicia delves into Argentina’s post-Peron period of terror, almost fifty years ago now, to chart the life, the disappearance, and almost certain …
Italian edition of Marconi published
Marconi: L’uomo che ha connesso il mondo (Milano: Hoepli editore https://www.marconi150.it/giornate-marconi/) was launched in Bologna, Italy, as part of activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi. https://www.marconi150.it/giornate-marconi/ Concurrent with the book’s launch, author Marc Raboy was presented with the 2024 “Marconist of the XXIst Century” award, instituted by the Guglielmo …
A robust discussion on freedom of speech
I was honoured to be the moderator of an important discussion on freedom of speech at the 2023 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. [https://bluemetropolis.org/event/freedom-of-speech-propaganda-and-cacophony/] The discussion focused on the challenges facing the fundamental human right of freedom of expression in the age of social media, ongoing government attempts at repression, and corporate control …
Looking for Alicia wins the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel was announced winner of the 2022 Quebec Writers’ Federation prestigious Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction at last night’s annual QWF Awards Gala. [https://qwf.org/award-year/2022/] The Jury’s citation reads as follows: “Marc Raboy’s investigation into the disappearance of Argentine journalist and social activist, Alicia Raboy, succeeds in …
Chinese edition of Marconi published
The Mandarin edition of Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World has been published by Hunan Science and Technology Press and is now out in China, reviewed, and on sale in bookstores as well as available in major university libraries. Xièxiè! See a selection of news and reviews about Marconi here and here
My new book, Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel, will appear in April 2022
If anyone is wondering what I’ve been doing for the past few years, here is the answer. Looking for Alicia is the story of a woman born with the rebellious DNA of a typical 1960s radical, whose destiny was anything but typical. The book explores how Alicia lived out her determination to make a difference …
Recent News Regarding Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marconi is now available in both hardcover and paperback print editions, as an ebook on various platforms, and as an audiobook. Check your favourite website for wherever books are sold, or ask for it at a library near you. Since the last time I updated this blog, a number of new articles and reviews about …
Networking Global Communication in and Beyond the Age of Social Media
I retired from active teaching on December 31, 2017. Since that time, I have been kept busy with ongoing writing activities. I continue to intervene on issues that have concerned me during my academic career, and continue to be active in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). In October 2018, a group …
Marc Raboy to speak to the Dante Alighieri Society, Ottawa
Marc Raboy will speak about Marconi at Carleton University in Ottawa for the Dante Alighieri Society on May 25th at 6:30 pm. The lecture is in room 252 in the MacOdrum Library. More information is available here.