Paolo Magaudda (PhD in Sociology) is Post-doc Researcher at the Department of Sociology of Padova University working with the Research Unit PaSTIS. He also collaborates with the University of Bologna, the Research Institute Carlo Cattaneo and the research centre Observa – Science in Society. In 2006 he has been Visiting Researcher at McGill University (Montreal). Since 2004 he is Coordinator of the editorial staff of the journal «Studi Culturali» (Il Mulino). Since 2007 he is in charge of web communication of the Italian Association for Science & Technology Studies. In 2010 he founded the new online journal Tecnoscienza: the italian journal of science & technology Studies.
He has published articles and essay reviews in journals such as «Appetite», «Modern Italy», «Journal of Consumer Culture», «Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia», «Studi Culturali», «Sociologica», «il Mulino» and in various other journals and edited books. He has a significant experience in empirical research and esppecially in qualitative methodologies; his main research interests are in the fields of science and technology, cultural studies, consumption and food studies, popular and youth culture and music, art and creativity.
Among his latest research projects are: a) a research on the use of everyday technologies and electrical appliances inside the house; b) a research (part of an european project) on the electronic music Festival Sònar in Barcelona - Spain; c) a research on the representations of technologies and appliances in italian TV advertising. In these last few years he is specifically focusing on the intersection of STS and consumer studies for the analysis of the use and consumption of everyday technologies.
2011 - ‘Actor Network Theory, in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. CQ Press (forthcoming).
2010 - L'iPad e il mosaico in divenire dell'industria culturale digitale, in "Studi Culturali", 7(2), 279-290. [Estratto]
2010 - Scienza, istituzioni e mercato nel trasferimento delle nanotecnologie. Il caso Nanofab, in S. Arnaldi e A. Lorenzet (a cura di), La governance delle nanotecnologie. Invenzioni, rappresentazioni ed etica, Bologna, Il Mulino (forthcoming).
2010 Development and Evaluation of a Risk-Communication Campaign on Salmonellosis , in "Food Control" (forthcoming - - with Biozzo B., Mari S., Arzenton A., Capozza D., Neresini F. and Ravarotto L.,)
2010 - L’appropriazione delle tecnologie musicali digitali. Successi, problemi e fallimenti nelle pratiche degli ascoltatori in "Trans. Revista Transcultural de música" 14 (forthcoming).
2009 - Il rischio di dilapidare un capitale (sottocultuale). Processi di istituzionalizzazione e conflitti culturali nel «campo» della musica indipendente in Italia, in M. Santoro (eds), Cultura in Italia, vol. II, Bologna, Il Mulino.
2009 - Processes of Institutionalization and ‘Symbolic Struggles’ in the ‘Independent Music’ Field in Italy, in «Modern Italy» 14 (3), pp. 295-310 [abstract eng].
2009 - Ridiscutere le sottoculture. Resistenza simbolica, postmodernismo e disuguaglianze sociali, in "Studi Culturali", 6(2), pp. 301-314. [abstract eng]
2009 -La musica indipendente come capitale culturale, in IL MULINO, 6\2009, pp. 1041-1046. [purchase]
2009 - Disco, House and Techno: rethinking the local and the global in Italian Electronic Music, in Proceedings of the 13th Biennial International IASPM Conference, Rome 2005, pp.468-483.
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