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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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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…
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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…
