Categoria: Publications
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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…