A5059961950- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Digital Games and Media
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Media and Politics
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
Sapienza University of Rome
2021-2023
The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth digital generational, situated approach, we account for how struggle appropriated FFF-activists part their own grassroots politics. Moreover, explore activities they mix strategies adopt when moving across online...
Abstract TikTok, a social media platform for creating and sharing short videos, has seen surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. To analyse Italian vaccine conversation on we downloaded sample of videos with high play count (Top Videos), identified through an unofficial Application Programming Interface (consistent TikTok’s Terms Service), collected public from sceptic users snowball sampling (Vaccine Sceptics’ videos). The were analysed using qualitative quantitative methods,...
This paper focuses on the American-centric, English-language dominance of Tumblr. It reviews current research Tumblr culture, transcultural fandom, and linguistic differences in fandom to analyze ways international fans engage disengage with U.S.-centric fandom. Through analysis 19 interviews members a transnational anime addresses their perception understanding platform’s cultural biases as an American corporate owned, English language dominated social network site. The then explores fans’...
Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well physical (offline) spaces novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline are increasingly interdependent interwoven manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings expectations negotiated across spaces, while at the same time they bound by respective logics limitations, leading to interrelations contradictions. The mobile, interlocking but non-converging nature involves...