About Us
Mariacristina Sciannamblo
Principal Investigator
Mariacristina Sciannamblo
Principal Investigator
Mariacristina Sciannamblo, PhD, is associate professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Communication and Social Research.Her research experience sits at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Technoscience, Communication Studies, and Participatory Design. Her research work examines the cultural politics of high-tech, with a focus on how sociotechnical practices produce different positioning and power asymmetries. She is the PI of the national research project “Gendering Internet. Violence, Resilience and Empowerment in digital spaces” funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies and of the Advisory Board of the Participatory Design Conference.
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
Research unit coordinator
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
Research unit coordinator
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (substitute Principal Investigator) is Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua. He teaches Gender and Media and Digital Culture, Gender and Society and he is member of the board of PhD Programme in Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions.
From 2023 he is the director of the BD programme in Communication.
His research deals with: sexuality, gender and digital culture; intimacies; pornography; masculinities; love and emotions; young people.
He is an editor of Journal of Gender Studies and from 2016 to 2021 he served as vice-chair and then chair for ECREA’s Gender, Sexuality & Communication section.
Valentina Fedele
Research unit coordinator
Valentina Fedele
Research unit coordinator
She is Associate Professor in Cultural Sociology. Her main researches and publications are focused on social and cultural intersectional narratives supporting the construction and the reproduction of contemporary masculinities and femininities, and their influence on the definition of gender hegemonic models and roles, affecting social and familiar relationship. She has experience in qualitative research methods and, from 2019 to 2024, she has been an elected member of the Scientific Board of the Centre of Women’s Studies Milly Villa (University of Calabria), being involved in different international research projects on gender discrimination, sexual and gender based violence, prevention of emotional and sexual abuse among youth.
Francesca Comunello
Sapienza University of Rome
Francesca Comunello
Sapienza University of Rome
Francesca Comunello (Head of Research Unit) is full professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Coris – Sapienza Department, where she teaches ‘Digital Communication’ and ‘Gender and Media’. Her areas of interest include communication and digital media, with reference to the study of digital platforms from a gender perspective, the relationship between ageism and digital environments, the role of digital and social media in emergency communication, and the communication of science. She has published in journals such as: New Media and Society, Information Communication and Society, Media Culture and Society, The Sociological Review, International Journal of Press/Politics, Ageing and Society, American Behavioral Scientist and Violence Against Women.
Lorenza Parisi
Sapienza University of Rome
Lorenza Parisi
Sapienza University of Rome
Lorenza Parisi is Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Roma where she teaches ‘Gender and media studies’ and ‘Sociology of Communication’ Her research interests are in the field of Internet studies with particular interest in participatory cultures, health communication and in critical algorithm studies. She has explored digital media from a gender perspective also exploring the use of dating apps and the related gender roles. She has published in journals such as: The Sociological Review, Information, Communication, & Society, and Sociologica.
Stefania Parisi
Sapienza University of Rome
Stefania Parisi
Sapienza University of Rome
Stefania Parisi, PhD in Media Studies, Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome (Department of Communication and Social Research). She teaches Sociology of Digital Media. Her studies concern the socio-cultural transformations related to the rise of the political-economic model of digital platforms; the relationship between media and the city; the perception and experience of the algorithm; the role of digital mediation in tourism and in the consumption of places; the cultural and political practices related to inhabiting online spaces, also investigated from the perspective of feminist media studies.
Flaminia Musella
University of Roma Tre
Flaminia Musella
University of Roma Tre
Flaminia Musella (Ph.D. in Statistics) is Associate Professor in Statistics at Education Department, Roma Tre University. She teaches Statistics and Data Analysis. She is interested in analyzing socio-economic and managerial phenomena; her main research interests are Bayesian networks both from a computational point of view and in an applicative way with a particular focus in managerial problems. She is also interested in applying SEM models in socio-educational issues. She is involved in several national and European research projects. She has been consultant for some National Organizations and Enterprises for carrying out customer satisfaction analysis. Since recently, she is interested in Gender Gap analysis by a statistical point of view. She is the author of many publications in relevant journals. She was Program Manager of International Business Administration. She is member of National Evaluation Unit at Link Campus University.
Chiara Carbone
University of Padova
Chiara Carbone
University of Padova
Chiara Carbone has a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Social Research and is a research fellow at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua in the PRIN 2022 project Gendering Internet. Violence, Resilience and Empowerment in digital spaces – GIVRE.
Her main research interests include gender-based violence, intersectional practices and feminisms.
Previously, she was part of the research team of the V.I.V.A – Analysis and Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent and Combat Violence Against Women project of the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policy of the National Research Council.
