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 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. For more info on this research project, please visit the BIT-ACT website.

She is a Cooperation 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.