In the late 1970s he moved back to Rome, where he studied philology and linguistics at La Sapienza University.
He also worked as a journalist, contributing to Il Messaggero and la Repubblica and Panorama on the subject of communication.
[1] In 1984 he studied Italian Dialectology, Phonology and Dialetto_romanesco, taking deep dives into films such as "Ragazzi di vita" by Pier Paolo Pasolini to "Amore tossico" by Claudio Caligari and slang graffiti on walls.
In 2007 he studied the system of new technologies and web communication, becoming chief of cultural chapter of ilcannocchiale.it and founding the website "Mag".
Alberto Castelvecchi has been also a member of veDrò, a think tank focused on cultural innovation and evolution of politics.