Elisabetta Risi earned a PhD in Information Society at the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2007. She subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships at IULM University in Milan, working on research in the field of Internet Studies, with a particular focus on the socio-economic processes related to users practices of digital and artificial intelligence platforms.
She is currently an RTDb Researcher at IULM University and has obtained the Italian National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professorship. She teaches courses in social research methodology as well as in the sociology of cultural and communication processes. She has also lectured at IUVSE in Venice and Verona, and taught at NABA and IED in Milan.
She has organized and participated in panels and conferences, and is the author of numerous publications.
Among the most recent: Digital Platform and Algorithmic Subjectivities (with Armano and Briziarelli, Westminster University Press, 2022); Dataified lives. Research models in the platform society (Franco Angeli, 2021); Digital Traces and Sociological Research: Reflections and Experiences in Digital Sociology (with Gandini, 2023)
Main areas of scientific interest
Societings and collaborative forms in the network society. Preliminary work and contemporary subjectivity. The use of the social web between users and businesses. Media narratives, identity processes and social construction of emotions. Digital ethnography and innovative methods in social and market research.
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