Mario Piacentini
Biographic Data
| ID | 224336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario Piacentini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | Piacentini |
| SIGNATURE | PIACENTINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6182-2185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consumer Entrapment
Why do consumers sometimes remain trapped in the very practices and communities that once helped them? Consumer practice research has largely emphasized the enabling outcomes of sustained practice participation, with less attention given to how those same practices can become entrapping. This article explores how consumer entrapment emerges within interconnected collective practices. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chama, a community-based sa…
AI‐Powered Scoring for Creative Thinking
The introduction of the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment underscores the growing need for scalable, valid, and reliable methods to evaluate creativity in international large‐scale assessments. Traditional human scoring, while nuanced, is time‐consuming, costly, and subject to inconsistencies. This paper explores recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP)—particularly transformer‐based large languag…
Pisa 2022 Creative Thinking
The 2022 cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking, representing the most comprehensive international large‐scale assessment of creative thinking to date. In this paper, we briefly present the objectives of PISA and how these goals have shaped its overall design and implementation, with important methodological, analytical, and interpretive implications for researchers. We then …
From Edgework to Edgeworking
This conceptual article adopts a life course perspective to reframe edgework as 'edgeworking': an ongoing negotiation of risks that reflects developmental, socio-ecological and temporal-historical adjustments throughout human life. In contrast to static and universalistic conceptualisations of edgework that characterise voluntary risk-taking as siloed, rarefied and self-edifying practices, we draw attention to the myriad transitions, turning poin…
A 'Proper Night Out
Drawing on the three-element model of social practice theory and key conceptualisations relating to gender performance, this article reports on an empirical study of the intersecting practices of drinking alcohol and doing gender. We present data from a 14-month research project to explore the online and offline intoxicated drinking practices of 23 young people in England framed as a 'proper night out'. The data were analysed with a focus on thre…
Ethical Dilemmas Using Social Media in Qualitative Social Research
Social media platforms that enable users to create and share online content with others are used increasingly in social research. This article explores the complex ethical issues associated with using social media for data collection, drawing on a study of the alcohol consumption practices of young people. It aims to contribute to debates about the practical and ethical challenges facing researchers using social media as a data collection tool, a…
Exploring health behaviours
Research suggests that there is no safe amount of alcohol but despite this alcohol consumption remains an important part of many [young] people's lives. Viewed as an inherently social activity, drinking alcohol provides an opportunity for socialising and connecting with friends. This study is one of the first to draw on practice theory to explore one type of intoxicated drinking occasion engaged in by young people; framed in this article as a 'pr…
Go hard or go home’
Developing a deep and contextualised understanding of risk is important for public health responses to young people’s alcohol consumption, which is frequently positioned as an outcome of risky behaviour. This paper expands conceptualisations of risk to encompass its wider social and cultural context through a social practice exploration of young people’s controlled and managed intoxicated alcohol consumption practice. We report data from a fourte…
Identity Refusal
Following Scott's recent sociology of nothing, we focus on the process of non-identification, wherein young adults seek to manage the risk of being marked by their non-participation in an important cultural practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with undergraduate students we develop two overall identity refusal positions (resistance and othering), through which informants seek to disengage with the collective identity of the non-drinker. Th…
Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity
The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students have a scientific output during their thesis that is significantly higher than other students. In fact, conditional on acceptance into the same programs, Ch…
Making sense of drinking
This article contributes to the understanding of how students neutralise potential feelings of guilt and stigmatisation regarding their alcohol consumption. We report findings from two qualitative studies with students at a UK university. The aim of the research was to uncover the range and ways in which neutralisation and counter-neutralisation techniques are used by drinkers and abstainers/near-abstainers in managing their alcohol position. Stu…
Characterization of elemental and firing-dependent properties of Phlegrean ceramics by non-destructive ED-XRF and NMR techniques
Study on the technique of the Roman age mural paintings by micro-XRF with Polycapillary Conic Collimator and micro-Raman analyses
Charlemagne's black marble
IL MARMO NERO DI CARLO MAGNO: L'ORIGINE DELL'EPITAFFIO DI PAPA ADRIANO I Questo articolo presenta nuove evidenze che identificano l'origine del marmo nero dell'epitaffio di papa Adriano I, conservato attualmente nel portico di San Pietro in Vaticano. L'epitaffio fu commissionato da Carlo Magno dopo la morte di Adriano (avvenuta il 26 dicembre del 795) ed è il più eminente esempio attualmente esistente di epigrafia carolingia. È un pezzo maestro d…
The wall paintings in the former Refectory of the Trinità dei Monti convent in Rome
Perception and Role of Fruit in the Workday Diets of Scottish Lorry Drivers
Making sense of drinking
This article contributes to the understanding of how students neutralise potential feelings of guilt and stigmatisation regarding their alcohol consumption. We report findings from two qualitative studies with students at a UK university. The aim of the research was to uncover the range and ways in which neutralisation and counter-neutralisation techniques are used by drinkers and abstainers/near-abstainers in managing their alcohol position. Stu…
Ethical Dilemmas Using Social Media in Qualitative Social Research
Social media platforms that enable users to create and share online content with others are used increasingly in social research. This article explores the complex ethical issues associated with using social media for data collection, drawing on a study of the alcohol consumption practices of young people. It aims to contribute to debates about the practical and ethical challenges facing researchers using social media as a data collection tool, a…
Exploring health behaviours
Research suggests that there is no safe amount of alcohol but despite this alcohol consumption remains an important part of many [young] people's lives. Viewed as an inherently social activity, drinking alcohol provides an opportunity for socialising and connecting with friends. This study is one of the first to draw on practice theory to explore one type of intoxicated drinking occasion engaged in by young people; framed in this article as a 'pr…
Characterization of elemental and firing-dependent properties of Phlegrean ceramics by non-destructive ED-XRF and NMR techniques
The wall paintings in the former Refectory of the Trinità dei Monti convent in Rome
Identity Refusal
Following Scott's recent sociology of nothing, we focus on the process of non-identification, wherein young adults seek to manage the risk of being marked by their non-participation in an important cultural practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with undergraduate students we develop two overall identity refusal positions (resistance and othering), through which informants seek to disengage with the collective identity of the non-drinker. Th…
Charlemagne's black marble
IL MARMO NERO DI CARLO MAGNO: L'ORIGINE DELL'EPITAFFIO DI PAPA ADRIANO I Questo articolo presenta nuove evidenze che identificano l'origine del marmo nero dell'epitaffio di papa Adriano I, conservato attualmente nel portico di San Pietro in Vaticano. L'epitaffio fu commissionato da Carlo Magno dopo la morte di Adriano (avvenuta il 26 dicembre del 795) ed è il più eminente esempio attualmente esistente di epigrafia carolingia. È un pezzo maestro d…
Perception and Role of Fruit in the Workday Diets of Scottish Lorry Drivers
Perception and Role of Fruit in the Workday Diets of Scottish Lorry Drivers
The wall paintings in the former Refectory of the Trinità dei Monti convent in Rome
Study on the technique of the Roman age mural paintings by micro-XRF with Polycapillary Conic Collimator and micro-Raman analyses
Charlemagne's black marble
IL MARMO NERO DI CARLO MAGNO: L'ORIGINE DELL'EPITAFFIO DI PAPA ADRIANO I Questo articolo presenta nuove evidenze che identificano l'origine del marmo nero dell'epitaffio di papa Adriano I, conservato attualmente nel portico di San Pietro in Vaticano. L'epitaffio fu commissionato da Carlo Magno dopo la morte di Adriano (avvenuta il 26 dicembre del 795) ed è il più eminente esempio attualmente esistente di epigrafia carolingia. È un pezzo maestro d…
Characterization of elemental and firing-dependent properties of Phlegrean ceramics by non-destructive ED-XRF and NMR techniques
Making sense of drinking
This article contributes to the understanding of how students neutralise potential feelings of guilt and stigmatisation regarding their alcohol consumption. We report findings from two qualitative studies with students at a UK university. The aim of the research was to uncover the range and ways in which neutralisation and counter-neutralisation techniques are used by drinkers and abstainers/near-abstainers in managing their alcohol position. Stu…
Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity
The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students have a scientific output during their thesis that is significantly higher than other students. In fact, conditional on acceptance into the same programs, Ch…
Go hard or go home’
Developing a deep and contextualised understanding of risk is important for public health responses to young people’s alcohol consumption, which is frequently positioned as an outcome of risky behaviour. This paper expands conceptualisations of risk to encompass its wider social and cultural context through a social practice exploration of young people’s controlled and managed intoxicated alcohol consumption practice. We report data from a fourte…
Identity Refusal
Following Scott's recent sociology of nothing, we focus on the process of non-identification, wherein young adults seek to manage the risk of being marked by their non-participation in an important cultural practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with undergraduate students we develop two overall identity refusal positions (resistance and othering), through which informants seek to disengage with the collective identity of the non-drinker. Th…
Ethical Dilemmas Using Social Media in Qualitative Social Research
Social media platforms that enable users to create and share online content with others are used increasingly in social research. This article explores the complex ethical issues associated with using social media for data collection, drawing on a study of the alcohol consumption practices of young people. It aims to contribute to debates about the practical and ethical challenges facing researchers using social media as a data collection tool, a…
Exploring health behaviours
Research suggests that there is no safe amount of alcohol but despite this alcohol consumption remains an important part of many [young] people's lives. Viewed as an inherently social activity, drinking alcohol provides an opportunity for socialising and connecting with friends. This study is one of the first to draw on practice theory to explore one type of intoxicated drinking occasion engaged in by young people; framed in this article as a 'pr…
A 'Proper Night Out
Drawing on the three-element model of social practice theory and key conceptualisations relating to gender performance, this article reports on an empirical study of the intersecting practices of drinking alcohol and doing gender. We present data from a 14-month research project to explore the online and offline intoxicated drinking practices of 23 young people in England framed as a 'proper night out'. The data were analysed with a focus on thre…
Pisa 2022 Creative Thinking
The 2022 cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking, representing the most comprehensive international large‐scale assessment of creative thinking to date. In this paper, we briefly present the objectives of PISA and how these goals have shaped its overall design and implementation, with important methodological, analytical, and interpretive implications for researchers. We then …
From Edgework to Edgeworking
This conceptual article adopts a life course perspective to reframe edgework as 'edgeworking': an ongoing negotiation of risks that reflects developmental, socio-ecological and temporal-historical adjustments throughout human life. In contrast to static and universalistic conceptualisations of edgework that characterise voluntary risk-taking as siloed, rarefied and self-edifying practices, we draw attention to the myriad transitions, turning poin…
Consumer Entrapment
Why do consumers sometimes remain trapped in the very practices and communities that once helped them? Consumer practice research has largely emphasized the enabling outcomes of sustained practice participation, with less attention given to how those same practices can become entrapping. This article explores how consumer entrapment emerges within interconnected collective practices. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chama, a community-based sa…
AI‐Powered Scoring for Creative Thinking
The introduction of the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment underscores the growing need for scalable, valid, and reliable methods to evaluate creativity in international large‐scale assessments. Traditional human scoring, while nuanced, is time‐consuming, costly, and subject to inconsistencies. This paper explores recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP)—particularly transformer‐based large languag…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Focus group (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works)