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Italy, United States, Hungary, United Kingdom

Biography

Dr. Elisabetta Ferrari is a Lecturer in Sociology (Digital Media) at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Elisabetta's research addresses the social and political implications of digital technologies, with an emphasis on activism, social movements, and social justice. In general, her work explores how the ways in which people use and think about digital technologies play a role in their struggles for social justice.

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Employment (4)

Aarhus University: Aarhus, DK

2024-09-01 to 2026-07-31 | AIAS-AUFF Fellow (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies)
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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

2021-09 to 2024-08-31 | Lecturer (Department of Sociology)
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University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2020 to 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Digital Studies Institute)
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University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, US

2019-09-01 to 2020-08-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Center on Digital Culture and Society)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, US

2014 to 2019 | PhD in Communication (Annenberg School for Communication)
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Central European University: Budapest, HU

2011 to 2013 | MA in Political Science (Political Science)
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Professional activities (1)

International Communication Association: D.C., D.C., US

2021 to 2024 | Secretary (Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group)
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Works (11)

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

University of California Press
2024-11 | Book
Contributors: FERRARI, E.
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Visual focus groups: Stimulating reflexive conversations with collective drawing

New Media & Society
2022-11-22 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1461-4448
Part of ISSN: 1461-7315
Contributors: Elisabetta Ferrari
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Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Qualitative Sociology
2022-08-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0162-0436
Part of ISSN: 1573-7837
Contributors: Elisabetta Ferrari
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Sincerely Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Networked Publics

Social Media + Society
2020-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2056-3051
Part of ISSN: 2056-3051
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Bodies that matter, bodies that don’t: selective disembodiment in the early Wired magazine (1993–1997)

Internet Histories
2020-07-02 | Journal article
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Technocracy Meets Populism: The Dominant Technological Imaginary of Silicon Valley

Communication, Culture and Critique
2020-04-29 | Journal article
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“When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show”: Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968–1972

Making Surveillance States
2019-12-31 | Book chapter
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‘Free country, free internet’: the symbolic power of technology in the Hungarian internet tax protests

Media, Culture & Society
2019-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0163-4437
Part of ISSN: 1460-3675
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Fake accounts, real activism: Political faking and user-generated satire as activist intervention

New Media & Society
2017-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1461-4448
Contributors: Elisabetta Ferrari
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Activist Media

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets
2017-06 | Dataset
Contributors: Rosemary Clark; Jasmine Erdener; Elisabetta Ferrari; Guobin Yang
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Social media for the 99%? Rethinking social movements’ identity and strategy in the corporate web 2.0

Communication and the Public
2016-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2057-0473
Contributors: Elisabetta Ferrari
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