I'm a sociologist, working as Fellow Researcher at Padova University, with the CIGA Centre and the Research Unit PaSTIS within the Department of Sociology.
My main research interests are in the fields of science and technology, consumption, cultural studies, digital cultures, popular music and art.
From a theoretical perspective, one of the main interests of mine is developing the intersection between sociology of technology, cultural sociology and consumer studies to analyze emerging practices of use of everyday technologies.
In these last few years, I have published more than thirty articles and chapters on scientific books and journals such as «Journal of Consumer Culture», «Appetite», «Modern Italy», «Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia», «Tecnoscienza», «Studi Culturali», «Sociologica», «il Mulino». You can find a list of my publications in this web. If you want to know more details on my work, download the full pdf CV here.
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NEWS OF THE MONTH |
Is out the new book edited by me and Federico Neresini, LA SCIENZA SULLO SCHERMO (SCIENCE ON THE SCREEN: REPRESENTATIONS OF TECHNOSCIENCE ON THE ITALIAN TV) collecting a four-year long reseach on the social representations of science and technology in the italian TV.
It is made up by 9 different chapters dealing with several different topics focussing on science and tv, such as quantitative data, experts in tv, use of science within talk shows and others . More info and the link to buy it are on the publicsher page here.
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Currently, I have completed a book in italian on the consumption of musical listening technologies which will be available in spring 2012 (il Mulino, 2012). I have also finished to edit togheter with Federico Neresini a book on the social representations of science & technology in Italian TV (il Mulino, 2011, in bookshop in jannuary 2012).
Since 2010 I'm co-editing "TECNOSCIENZA: the italian Journal of science and technology studies", which is the italian reference for the social study of science and technology. It is open access: download the journal free from here.
I'm also member of the Board of Directors of "STUDI CULTURALI" (Il Mulino), where currently working to edit (with Marco Santoro) a Special Issue on Sound Culture, expected by end 2012.
Currently I'm working (or I have just finished to work) on several different research projects: A) a research on hacking practices and users' modification of digital technologies; B) a research on the representations of science and technologies in the italian TV advertising; C) a research (part of an European project) on the electronic music Festival Sònar in Barcelona; D) a research on the social representation of nanotechnologies and their innovations.
Here is a cloud generated by the most common words appearing in the titles of my publications and researches. Click to enlarge:
IN PRESS
(2012) - Oggetti da ascoltare. Hifi, iPod e il consumo delle tecnologie musicali, Bologna, Il Mulino (in press).
(2011) - La scienza sullo schermo. Le rappresentazioni della tecnoscienza nella televisione italiana, a cura di, Bologna, Il Mulino (con Federico Neresini).
(2012) - Audio Equipment In Rathje, W. & Zimring A.C. (Eds), Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste, Sage (in press).
(2011) - Narrative e stereotipi della tecnoscienza negli spot pubblicitari, in La scienza sullo schiermo. Le rappresentazioni della sicenza nella televisione italiana, a cura di P. Magaudda e F. Neresini, Bologna, Il Mulino (in press).
2011
(2011) The circulation of techniques for violence and the role of materiality in Randal Collins’s violence theory, in "Sociologica" N. 2/2011, Doi: 10.2383/35866.
(2011) - Social Shaping of Technology in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, Sage,
(2011) - Actor Network Theory, in Southerton, D. Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, Sage.
(2011) - Communication Studies , in Southerton, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, Sage.
2011 - I festival artistici e la cultura pubblica europea, in "il Mulino"(with Marco Solaroli), pp. 897-903 [compra].
2011 - When materiality ‘bites back’. Digital music consumption practices in the age of dematerialization, in "Journal of Consumer Culture", vol. 11 no. 1, pp. 15-36. [Astract - download] see CLOUD WORDS!!!
2011 - «Space is the Place». The global localities of Sònar and Womad music festivals in Delanty, Giorni and Sassatelli (eds) Festival and the public cultural sphere, London, Routledge (with Jasper Chalcraft) [Buy the book]. see CLOUD WORDS!!!
2011 - Music festivals as cosmopolitan spaces (With Jasper Chalcraft, Marco Solaroli and Marco Santoro), in
European Arts Festivals: Strengthening cultural diversity, Luxembourg, Office of the European Union, pp. 25-36 [Download].
2011 - Music festivals and local identities
(With Jasper Chalcraft, Marco Solaroli and Marco Santoro)
in
European Arts Festivals: Strengthening cultural diversity, Luxembourg, Office of the European Union, pp. 57-67 [Download].
2011 - Biology, ethnography and STS: An interview with Christine Hine (with Christine Hine and Attila Bruni) in «Tecnoscienza» 2(1), pp. 87-92.
2011 - Review of: Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life, Vannini P., in «Tecnoscienza» 2(1), pp. 122-124.
2011 - Doni, distinzione e mercato ai tempi di internet in "Studi Culturali" 1(2011), pp. 113-118. [Buy the article].
2011 - Development and Evaluation of a Risk-Communication Campaign on Salmonellosis , in "Food Control" 22 (1), pp. 109-117 (with Biozzo B., Mari S., Arzenton A., Capozza D., Neresini F. and Ravarotto L.). [Abstract, index and purchase].
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