Categoria: Publications
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Between AI fear and digital agency: technological familiarity and risk perception of generative AI’s epistemic power
Mauro Barisione, Ilir Rama, Francesco Marolla Barisione, M., Rama, I., & Marolla, F. (2025). Between AI fear and digital agency: technological familiarity and risk perception of generative AI’s epistemic power. Information, Communication & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2606101 This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’…
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The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots
Ilir Rama, Massimo Airoldi Rama, I., & Airoldi, M. (2025). The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5546-5567. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338273 (Original work published 2025) Research on AI has extensively considered biases related to gender and race. However, much less attention has been dedicated…
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Conceptualising the ‘algorithmic public opinion’: Public opinion formation in the digital age
Alessandro Gandini, Silvia Keeling, Urbano Reviglio QUOTE THIS PAPER: Gandini, A., Keeling, S., & Reviglio, U. (2025) “Conceptualising the ‘algorithmic public opinion’: Public opinion formation in the digital age”. Dialogues on Digital Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251323147 A growing body of research has examined the relationship between social media algorithms and public opinion-related issues in digital environments,…
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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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The Platformisation of Consumer Culture: A Digital Methods Guide
Alessandro Caliandro, Alessandro Gandini QUOTE THIS PAPER: Caliandro A., Gandini, A., Bainotti L., Anselmi G. (2024). The platformization of consumer culture: a Digital Methods Guide, Amsterdam University Press, DOI 10.5117/9789463729567 This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation…
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The platformization of consumer culture: a theoretical framework
Alessandro Caliandro, Alessandro Gandini QUOTE THIS PAPER: Caliandro, A., Gandini, A., Bainotti, L., & Anselmi, G. (2024). The platformization of consumer culture: A theoretical framework. Marketing Theory, 24(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705931231225537 (Original work published 2024) This special issue, together with this position paper that accompanies it, aims at providing acomprehensive framework to address this issue, introducing…
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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…