Ott 16, 2024 | Research Team
Ph.D. in Methodology of Social Sciences (University of Florence), Francesco Saccchetti is Associate Professor of methodology of social sciences at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. He was visiting researcher at the Management School of the University of Stirling (UK). In 2011 he won the “Achille Ardigò Award” for the methodology session. Since 2012 he is Collaborator Professor at the 28th Regiment “Pavia”, Psyops Specialists and Target Audience Analysis courses (NATO) in the field of social research methodology.
Ott 16, 2024 | Research Team
Elisabetta Zurovac, PhD, is currently Research Fellow and lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. Her research interests concern online self-narrative practices and the mediatization of memory, with a particular reference to online visual data, cultural trauma and social media. She has recently published “Screenshot Society: come le fotografie dello schermo raccontano il nostro stare online” (Franco Angeli, 2023).
Link at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CLPoVG8AAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
Ott 15, 2024 | Research Team
Sabrina Brignoli is a PhD student at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.
Her research interests focus on digital activism and influencer cultures, participatory politics and fandom publics on social media. In her work, she explores how personal and ideological fandom dynamics mediate the relationship between influencer-activists and their publics, shaping content practices and affective responses within the public debate in digital environments.
Ott 15, 2024 | Research Team
Valeria Donato is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Communication, Humanities, and International Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. She obtained her PhD in 2023 with a dissertation on the relationship between platform societies and state power, focusing on the case of Chinese power discourse in international communication. Her research interests encompass the interplay between democratic systems and the platformization of societies, strategic communication and soft power in Global South countries, and the de-westernization of knowledge.
Link to Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=Ag8gzUMAAAAJ
Ott 13, 2024 | Research Team
Selenia Anastasi is a PhD candidate in Digital Humanities at the University of Genoa and a Research Fellow in Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Her interdisciplinary research combines elements of computational methodologies and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on digitally mediated communication and hate speech. Her doctoral thesis focuses on a corpus-assisted cross-linguistic study of the circulation of misogynistic discourses within English and Italian Incel communities. As a young researcher, she has cultivated an international profile through extensive research stays in a number of European and non-European countries. Among other things, she is also a very proud Sicilian.
Ott 13, 2024 | Research Team
Giuliana Sorci is Research Fellow at the University of Siena. From 2021 to 2024, I was a Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa and Florence) where I worked on the Valcon and PopSphere projects. From 2016 to 2019, I was a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Catania. During my doctorate, my research focused on the political communication of social movements. My research project analyzed alternative social networks as a new frontier in digital media. In parallel, I conducted research on Italian territorial movements such as No Muos, No Tav, and No Ponte, which resulted in the co-authorship of two articles: “Do LULU Movements in Italy Fight Mafia and Corruption? Framing Processes and ‘Anti-System’ Struggles in the No Tav, No Bridge, and No Muos Case Studies” (published in PaCo – Partecipazione e Conflitto) and “LULU Movements in Multilevel Struggles: A Comparison of Four Movements in Italy” (published in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche). In December 2016, as a researcher, I participated in the Anticorrp UE7-PQ Cooperation project (Anticorruption Policies Revisited – Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption). In 2015, I published the book Social Networks: New Systems of Surveillance and Social Control, which analyzed how surveillance and social control practices are implemented on commercial platforms.
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