1 GREY LITERATURE BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION: IS THERE A CONTINUUM? Gabriella Pardelli, Sara Goggi, Manuela Sassi Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale,“Antonio Zampolli” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italia [gabriella.pardelli, sara.goggi, manuela.sassi]@ilc.cnr.it Abstract This study wants to explore new ways of social media communication for Grey Literature. In particular it describes the role of social media in relation with traditional channels and how social media applications can be used for Grey. Keywords: Grey Literature, Communication networks, Knowledge networking, Knowledge exchange. 1. Introduction From the V th century, when monasteries started to be built in Western Europe, the transcription of ancient literary works was made in one of the abbey rooms called ‘scriptorium’. This method for the replication of knowledge aimed at retrieval and conservation rather than at divulgation: there was a selection of the works to bequeath and preference was given to Latin Classics, religious works and some heathen works as well. This Medieval way of knowledge was preservative rather than popular and was addressed to a niche of a few users: its main merit was to pass on knowledge from age to age and transmit it to our time Information Society (IS). Information Society is a computer-based society which spreads knowledge, meets on social networks, establishes realities such as Wikipedia and Facebook thus reducing the world into a global village. Information currently means knowledge and becomes a new form of wealth, since productivity and welfare are influenced by the management and the transmission of information. The Medieval “scriptorium” is somehow rebuilt on the web with a new transcription system called “digitalization”: