Alice Mattoni

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 digital technologies and social movements, civil society organizations and movement organizations.

As Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project BIT-ACT (2019-2024), she has investigated how movement organizations develop and employ digital technologies and media to counter corruption across the world. This line of research is further developed in the Horizon Europe funded project RESPOND (2024-2029), of which Alice is the Scientific Coordinator.

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.