CURRENT POSITION
Research Fellow in the Horizon Europe funded project RESPOND - Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (01 June 2024 - ongoing)
PAST POSITION
PhD Student (35^cycle), PhD programme: Political and Social Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (01 Nov 2019 - 31 Jan 2024).
Member of the ERC-founded project “BIT-ACT: Bottom-up initiative and anti-corruption technologies: how citizens use ICTs to fight corruption”, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Grant agreement No. 802362 (01 Jul 2019 - 31 Dec 2024).
Visiting Fellow at DIMMONS – Action Research Group, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain (21 Feb 2022 - 27 May 2022).
EDUCATION
2018 Master Degree in Public and Political Communication (110/110 cum laude), University of Turin. Dissertation: "Fake news. Analisi del fenomeno tra misinformation,disinformation, entertainment e propaganda". Supervisor: Professor Cristopher Cepernich. Co-Supervisor: Professor Franca Roncarolo
2015 Bachelor Degree in Science of Communication (108/110), University of Turin. Dissertation: "La televisione incontra lo smartphone: analisi del rapporto tra first e second screen attraverso la Teoria degli usi e delle gratificazioni". Supervisor: Professor Cristopher Cepernich. Co-Supervisor: Professor Luciano Paccagnella
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Fubini, Alice, and Lo Piccolo, Alessandra (Forthcoming). Anti-Corruption Initiatives and the Digital Challenge: the Role of Civil Society Organizations and Whistleblowing Infrastructures in the Italian Context, in «American Behavioral Scientist»
Fubini, Alice. 2023. More than just shifting Boundaries. Informative activism from a comparative perspective, in «Problemi dell’informazione», Special Issue “Reconsidering journalism as an ecosystem, vol. 1, pp. 37-62, doi: 10.1445/106769
Belluati, Marinella and Fubini, Alice. 2022. Reacting to disinformation. The multilevel EU fact-checking approach, in «De Europa», vol.5 (2), pp.55-75
Cepernich, Cristopher and Fubini, Alice. 2020. Italian parties and the digital challenge: between limits and opportunities, in «Contemporary Italian Politics» DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2020.1863650
Fubini, Alice. 2019. Fake news and disinformation online, in «Problemi dell’informazione», vol. 1, pp. 243-250 DOI:10.1445/92866;
Fubini, Alice. 2018. Fake news: aporie di un concetto debole, in «Comunicazione Politica», vol. 3, pp. 433-438 DOI : 10.3270/91639
Chapters in Ed.Volumes
Fubini, Alice. (2024). Data Practices and Informative Activism in the Grassroots Struggles Against Corruption. In Alice Mattoni (ed.) Digital Media and Anti-Corruption from the Grassroots: Contexts, Platforms and Practices of Anti-Corruption Technologies Worldwide. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mayerhöffer, E., Belluati, M., DeCillia, B., d´Haenens, L., Fubini, A., Lo, W. H., Núñez-Mussa, E., Ólafsson, J. G., & Rega, R. (2022). Countering misinformation in and from the newsroom: How digital platforms redefine journalistic practice and the democratic role of news media. In Success and Failure in News Media Performance: Comparative Analysis in The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855589-2
