Education
08/05/2006 – IULM Free University in Languages and
Communication, Milan
Ph.D. in “Communication and New Technologies”, 18th cycle, with
an “excellent” evaluation.
Dissertation title: “Strategy, Communication, and Politics:
Election Campaigns in the United States Between Innovation and
Tradition”, supervised by Professor Marino Livolsi.
15/07/2002 – University of Bologna
Laurea (BSc+MSc degree) magna cun laude in Communication
Sciences.
Dissertation title: “How the Most Powerful Man in the World is
Elected: Candidates and Mass Media in the 2000 United States
Presidential Elections”, supervised by Professor Roberto
Grandi.
21/07/1997 – Classical High School “Marco Minghetti”,
Bologna
High school degree in Classics with an evaluation of 60/60.
Foreign Experience, Scholarships, and Prizes
2013 – Italian Ministry of Education and Research,
“Future in Research 2012” Initiative
“Building Inclusive Societies and a Global Europe
Online: Political Information and Participation on Social Media in
Comparative Perspective” (Principal Investigator), 21 March 2013 –
20 March 2016: € 917,884 (733,003 Ministerial
funding).
2011 – Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy,
University of Oxford
Academic visitor from 20/4/2011 to 12/8/2011.
2011 – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
“Marco Polo” scholarship for a research abroad experience in the
United Kingdom.
2010 – Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy,
University of Oxford & Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania
Summer school in “Global Media Policy”.
2008 – Journalism School, Columbia University, New
York
Visiting scholar from 15/10/2008 to 15/1/2009.
2008 – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
“Marco Polo” scholarship for a research abroad experience in the
United States.
2005-2008 – Department of Political Science, University of
Bologna
Research fellow for the project “Elections, Political
Communication and Electronic Democracy”, supervised by
Professor Gianfranco Pasquino.
2007 – Italian Society of Electoral Studies (SISE)
11th “Celso Ghini” prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the
2005-2006 biennium.
2007 – International Communication Association (ICA)
Travel grant to participate to the ICA Annual Meeting (Dresden,
Germany).
2005 – Department of Political Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Visiting student from 01/02/2005 to 30/07/2005, supervised by
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere; winner of an Italy-MIT Consortium
research scholarship as MIT-Italiy Fellow.
2004 – School of Public Affairs, American University,
Washington, DC, USA
Scholar-in-Residence from 01/07/2004 to 01/02/2005, supervised
by Professor James Thurber.
2002-2005 – IULM Free University in Languages and
Communication, Milan
Three-year Ph.D. scholarship.
2000-2001 – University of California, San Diego, CA,
USA
International student from 01/09/2000 to 30/06/2001 within the
University of California Education Abroad Program and the
University of Bologna Overseas Program.
Other Activities
Professional Memberships
- Italian Political Science Association (SISP) since 2006;
co-convenor of the "Political Communication" section for the 2012
annual conference
- American Political Science Association (APSA) since 2005
- International Communication Association (ICA) since 2004
- Italian National Election Studies (ITANES) since 2013
- Standing Group “Internet & Politics”, European Consortium
for Political Research (ECPR) dal 2009
- Italian Association of political communication since 2009
- Study group on "Online Politics and New Media", Research
Institute "Carlo Cattaneo" (Bologna) since 2009
Editorial Duties
- Member of the editorial board of Polena since
2008
- Member of the editorial team of Comunicazione
Politica since 2009
- Referee for
New Media & Society
, International Journal of Press/Politics,
EuropeanJournal of Communication, Journal of Information
Technology & Politics, International Journal of
Electronic Governance, French Politics, Rivista
Italiana di Scienza Politica, Comunicazione Politica,
Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Polena.
