Philip di Salvo on Democracy, Data, Whistleblowers & Great Journalism

Philip Di Salvo does research about whistleblowing, investigative
journalism, Internet surveillance and the relationship between
journalism and hacking. At USI, he teaches journalism both at the
Master and Bachelor levels. Philip received his PhD in
Communication Sciences from USI with a dissertation about the
adoption of encrypted whistleblowing platforms in journalism in
summer 2018. Since 2018, Philip is also a lecturer at NABA – New
Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. As a freelance journalist, he
writes for Wired, Motherboard/Vice, Esquire and other publications
covering the social impacts of technology. At USI, Philip also
works as the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) Italian editor.
Philip has authored two books: “Leaks. Whistleblowing e hacking
nell’età senza segreti” (LUISS University Press, Rome, 2019) and
“Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism. Encrypting Leaks”
(Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2020). Here Regula Staempfli and
Philip Di Salvo talk about the World of secrecy, data, platform
capitalism, surveillance, encryption and what is needed for a
democratisation of digitalisation.