Augusto Valeriani is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, where he focuses on political communication, digital media, and journalism. Within the same department, he coordinates the Program in Journalistic, Public, and Corporate Communication and is a member of the faculty board of the PhD program in "Political and Social Sciences." He serves as the Director of the Master's Program in Digital Marketing and Communication at the Bologna Business School.
He is part of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Political Communication. For the three-year period 2024-2026, he is the editor of the journal Comunicazione Politica (ComPol).
He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journals Social Media + Society, Cyber Orient, and Problemi dell'Informazione.
Currently, he is an Associate Investigator (unit leader) of the PRIN2022 project "TASKs (Trust, Authority, Sense and Knowledge)." He was an Associate Investigator (unit leader) of the PRIN2017 project "I-PolHyS. Investigating polarization in Hybrid Media Systems."
He conducted research periods at the University of Westminster in London (2005-2006) and the Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia (2009-2010). He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Bing Center-Florence of Stanford University (2015-2017).
He has published four monographs (the latest with Oxford University Press in 2021) and several chapters in collective books in Italian and English on journalism, political communication, and international communication with a particular focus on digital media. His research has been published in journals such as Current Sociology; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; New Media and Society; The International Journal of Press/Politics; Information, Communication and Society; Social Media + Society; European Journal of Communication; Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication; Sage Open; Italian Political Science Review (RISP); Sociologica; Comunicazione Politica; Problemi dell'Informazione; and Mediascapes Journal.
He has received grants, awards, and recognitions from the Italian Political Science Society (2012), the Italian Electoral Studies Society (2014), the "Political Communication" section of the International Communication Association (2014), the "Information, Technology and Politics" section of the American Political Science Association (2022), and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (2022).
He has presented his work at various conferences organized by national and international academic associations, including the International Communication Association, the American Political Science Association, the European Sociological Association, the European Communication Research and Education Association, the European Consortium for Political Research, the Middle East Studies Association, the Italian Sociological Association, the Italian Political Science Society, and the Italian Association of Political Communication.
He graduated in Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna in 2004 and obtained his Ph.D. in "Communication, Mass Media, and Public Sphere" from the University of Siena in 2008. From 2009 to 2013, he was a research fellow first at the Department of Sociology and then at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. From 2013 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna.
