Open lecture “Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Media in the Grassroots Fight Against Corruption”

25 10 2022

We are pleased to announce the upcoming open lecture organized by the Digital Economy Lab and is held within the “Mentoring Programme” scheme (Action I.1.1/IV.1.1) of “Excellence Initiative – Research University” Programme.

The lecture by prof. Alice Mattoni, will focus on how activists worldwide include digital media in their anti-corruption struggles.

Alice Mattoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the intersections between media – digital and otherwise – and social movements, civil society organizations and movement organizations. As Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project BIT-ACT (2019-2024), she investigates how movement organizations develop and employ digital media platforms to counter corruption across the world. She is a cooperating partner of the research project “AUTO-WELF – Automating Welfare: Algorithmic Infrastructures for Human Flourishing in Europe” (2022-2025) funded by the Chanse scheme “Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age”. She is Coordinating Editor of Social Movement Studies and of the open-access journal Partecipazione e Conflitto. She is part of the Editorial board of Social Media + Society. She is one of the three co-founders and current editor of the Routledge Series Media and Communication Activism. Her work has been published in international journals such as European Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, The Review of Communication, and Social Movement Studies.

The lecture will take place
on Tuesday, November 8th 2022, 16:00-18:00
at the UW Department of Sociology at Karowa 18 street, room 18