Team
Giovanni Boccia Artieri (P.I.)
Giovanni Boccia Artieri (Ph.D.) is Full Professor in Sociology of Communication and Digital Media and Dean at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies, University of Urbino Carlo Bo. His main research interests revolve around media...
Sara Bentivegna (Unit Coordinator)
Sara Bentivegna is Full Professor of Political Communication at the Department of Communication and Social Research (Coris), University of Rome “Sapienza”. Her scientific and research activities have been devoted to (both traditional and digital) communication and its...
Rossella Rega (Unit Coordinator)
Rossella Rega is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena, where she teaches "Media Industry and Strategic Communication" and "Journalism and New Media"....
Tiziano Bonini (Senior researcher)
Tiziano Bonini is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Siena, where he teaches Media, Digital Culture and Society at the undergraduate level and Sociology of Digital Media at the graduate level. He is co-author of...
Stefano Brilli (Senior researcher)
Stefano Brilli is a Research Fellow at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies of the University of Urbino (Italy). His research interests focus on irreverence and celebrity in digital culture, performing arts audiences...
Nicola Righetti (Senior researcher)
Nicola Righetti is Assistant Professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy, where I teach Digital Methods. Previously, I worked as a researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, where I taught Advanced Data Analysis and served as an associate researcher at...
Francesco Sacchetti (Senior researcher)
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...
Elisabetta Zurovac (Senior researcher)
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...
Sabrina Brignoli (Junior researcher)
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...
Valeria Donato (Junior researcher)
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,...









