Hybrid Politics: Media and Participation

About Laura Iannelli

Laura Iannelli is Lecturer of Sociology of Culture and Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Theory and Social Research from Sapienza University in Rome. Since 2011 she has been teaching Political Communication and Participation at the University of Sassari in Sardinia (Italy). In 2014 she was Visiting Scholar at City University London and the University of Leicester. Her primary research focuses on communication processes and political participation. In 2013 she began coordinating a two-year interdisciplinary research project on contemporary public art activism and performative citizenship funded by the Region of Sardinia. In 2015 in collaboration with City University London she organized an international conference entitled Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies in Alghero Italy and co-edited a special issue on this topic in the journal Information Communication & Society. She has published various book chapters and articles on media and political participation and in 2010 authored the book Facebook & Co. Sociologia dei Social Network Sites (Milano: Guerini Scientifica).