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.

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