Categoria: Publications
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Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources
Alessandro Caliandro QUOTE THIS PAPER: Caliandro, A. (2024). Follow the user: Taking advantage of Internet users as methodological resources. Convergence, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241307569 In this article, I introduce a novel epistemological approach meant to re-adapt the digital methods paradigm to a fast changing digital landscape. This change was mostly brought about by the transformation of Web 2.0 into a…
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Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities
Helen Kennedy · Giorgia Aiello · Taylor Annabell · Christopher W. Anderson QUOTE THIS PAPER: Kennedy, H., Aiello, G., Annabell, T., & Anderson, C. W. (2025). Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241310675 Historically, scholars of journalism have concerned themselves with meaning. It is ironic,…
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Digital labour: an empty signifier?
Alessandro Gandini QUOTE THIS PAPER: Gandini, A. (2021). Digital labour: an empty signifier?. Media, Culture & Society, 43(2), 369-380 Since the early 2000s, the expression ‘digital labour’ has identified an influential theoretical proposition in the Marxist critique of the political economy of digital media, which sees the leisure-driven, unpaid activities of social media users as…
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Exploring generational othering through Internet memes
Giulia Giorgi QUOTE THIS PAPERGiorgi, G. (2025). Exploring generational othering through Internet memes. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251314555 This article investigates the modalities through which Internet memes are involved in the process of generational othering. Existing research has emphasised that taking the distance from other cohorts is central to the reinforcement of generational cohesion. Nonetheless,…
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Practice, Interpretation, and Meaning in Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem
Christopher W. Anderson QUOTE THIS PAPERAnderson, C. W. (2020). Practice, Interpretation, and Meaning in Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(2), 342-359. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020916807 (Original work published 2020) Historically, scholars of journalism have concerned themselves with meaning. It is ironic, then, that much of the most influential scholarship on digital media over the past two decades has…
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Visual communication has always been political
Giorgia Aiello QUOTE THIS PAPERAiello, G. (2023). “Visual communication has always been political”. Journal of Visual Political Communication, 10(1), 7-16. This article is an invitation to engage with the small ‘p’ politics of visual political communication by highlighting the importance of both culture and history, in order to gain greater understanding of how images and…
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Parables of Modernity: Italian Advertising Meets Religion, 1890–1950
Carlo Nardella QUOTE THIS PAPERNardella, C. (2024). Parables of Modernity: Italian Advertising Meets Religion, 1890–1950. Religions, 15(12), 1540. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121540 The use of religious symbols in commercial advertising is not only a modern phenomenon. The research presented here traces its existence from the start of the last century through the analysis of a broad sample of…
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The nested relationality of perceived legitimacy: Mapping taste hierarchies with granular digital traces
Massimo Airoldi QUOTE THIS PAPERAiroldi, M., 2024. The nested relationality of perceived legitimacy: Mapping taste hierarchies with granular digital traces. Poetics, 102, 101864. ABSTRACTThe article has a double purpose. On the one hand, it contributes to theories of cultural legitimacy and classification. Based on data about consumers’ music evaluations, it shows that taste hierarchies are…
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Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries: the algorithmic other
Alessandro Gandini · Alessandro Gerosa · Luca Giufrè · Silvia Keeling QUOTE THIS PAPERGandini, A., Gerosa, A., Giuffrè, L. et al., Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries: the algorithmic other. Subjectivity 30, 417–434 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00171-w ABSTRACTThe notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been affirmed as an important heuristic to understand the functioning of social media algorithms through the account of…