Phd in COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL RESEARCH AND MARKETING

email: francesca.ieracitano@uniroma1.it
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Francesca Ieracitano (PhD) is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Social
Research of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Her main interests focus on the sociotechnical shaping of generational, gender, and ethnic differences and forms of hidden discrimination.
By adopting the perspective of the mutual shaping of Technology and Society, and following the strand of the Critical algorithms studies and the digital disconnection studies, her research activities explore:
a) the interplay between the algorithmic system, and the social construction of ethnic discrimination;
b) the role of digital affordances and constraints in reproducing gender scripts and stereotypes in online dating, but also in implementing digital dating abuses;
c) the media ideologies about the interaction between young and old users in digital platforms;
d) the effects of sexist; homophobic and racist online hate speech on young users’ moral reasoning
e) and the effects of digital disconnection practices on young users’ beliefs, gender inequalities, and media ideologies Her work has been published in the following Journals: BMC Public Health; Children & Society; Information, Communication and Society, New Media & Society. Social Science Computer Review; The Communication Monograph.

Recent and Selected participation in /coordination of Research projects

- Member of the research project of national relevance titled: Digital Practices, Gender, and Intimacy in Teens’ Everyday Life – DIGIT (Coordinated by Marco Cosimo Scarcelli, Padua University), funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University
- National Coordinator of the “Cross-Country Comparison of Digital Disconnection Experience” (International coordinators: Malene Hornstrup Jespersen -University of Copenhagen, and Minh Hao Nguyen-University of Zurich)
- Coordinator of the research project: “Intelligent or artificial discrimination? An analysis of strategies for reconciling newsmaking processes and algorithmic logic in the dissemination of immigration news by local online newsrooms in Italy”, Funded by Sapienza University of Rome.