Phd in JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORATE IN SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS,
CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

I conduct social and media research, analyses of public opinion and public debates, investigations into the role of communication in organisations and companies, studies on the collective imagination and its stereotypes.

 

I have coordinated Italian and international research projects, observatories and research groups or laboratories. I am co-director of the social and environmental communication series CHANGE for the Nuova Cultura publishing house in Rome and I am on the Editorial Board (Executive Editors) of the scientific journal H-ermes. Journal of Communication.

 

I am currently working on five main topics:

 

- Artistic, creative and non-violent activism

- Campaigns and non-profit communication

- Critical and responsible consumption, solidarity economy

- Disability, health and sick associations

- Media, public opinion, minorities

For many years I have carried out analyses and reflections on the media representation of migratory phenomena and on the relationship between journalistic information, discrimination and public policy-making. On this topic I have published several articles and essays and edited some texts that collect the results of major research such as Tracciare confini (2015), FuoriLuogo (2004), Gigantografie in nero (2012), Fuori dall'emergenza (2014).

 

I coordinated the researches of the Osservatorio Carta di Roma, the Osservatorio sulla comunicazione sociale e l'editoria del Terzo Settore - Terza.com and the Osservatorio su comunicazione ambientale e della sostenibilità - Cambio.