Riccardo Pronzato
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 372930 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Riccardo Pronzato |
| NOMBRES | Riccardo |
| APELLIDO | Pronzato |
| FIRMA | PRONZATO R |
| AFILIACIONES | IULM University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1356-3518 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
The risk of trust
This paper examines AI narratives in healthcare and, more specifically, how people attribute trust to the role of AI in breast cancer detection. To do so, it draws on a content analysis conducted on 701 online user comments to a New York Times article, using Sztompka’s trust framework to identify and scrutinise the different forms of trust at play. Findings offer critical insights for digital health studies and social science studies of risk and …
Educational offer in older adult home care for migrant family care assistants
Introduction The increasing number of older people with multiple chronic diseases determines care demand, while the number of formal and informal caregivers is decreasing. In many EU countries, migrant family care assistants (MFCAs) bridge the gap between supply and demand of H24 tailored home care, often without training in older adult care. This study aims to explore older adult care education for (migrant) family care assistants at the Europea…
Critical, Qualitative and Situated
Social researchers have extensively examined the systematic role played by digital platforms, algorithms and datafication processes in shaping social life. In response to the overwhelming power asymmetries, datafication processes and extractive conditions imposed on users, different scholars have emphasized the need for educational initiatives that foster forms of critical digital literacy. This article explores how critical pedagogical approache…
Algorithmic selfing
This article conducts an existential media analysis of the temporalities favoured by algorithmic media and experienced by users and the related possibilities of selfhood. Specifically, I advance the concept of ‘algorithmic selfing’ to indicate a form of processual Self that is temporarily constructed and incessantly reconstructed within the temporal relationships individuals develop with algorithmic media. This process of algorithmic selfing occu…
Enacting and re-politicising co-design
The recent institutionalisation of the co-design approach in eHealth interventions has resulted in an increased focus on providing technological solutions rather than addressing social issues, which has led co-design to gradually lose its political value. The aim of this theoretical article is to propose a re-politicisation of the co-design process of eHealth technologies through the application of the concept of “enactment”. Drawing on various i…
The Social Life of an Optimised Song
Music streaming platforms are complex socio-technical infrastructures that co-construct cultural production, distribution, and reception. Different contributions have highlighted that artists, producers, and operators may implement optimisation processes, based on their algorithmic imaginaries, to align their music to the modes of listening and categorisation imposed by algorithmic media. Drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured interviews with pro…
The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals' platform experiences
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a further extension of the sociotechnical logics of digital platforms to every realm of social life. Given the colonialist, oppressive and exploitative dynamics through which digital platforms work, several scholars supported the need to embrace an openly activist role to help individuals contrast the ways in which they are trapped in loops of dependency and trajectorism. Drawing on the results of 40 auto-ethnograph…
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace
In recent years, several scholars have highlighted the necessity to scrutinize the practices and material settings in which algorithmic models are designed, in order to unpack the working activities and socio-cultural constructs underlying their production and deployment process. Drawing on a multisited ethnography, this paper investigates the practices of tech workers within the corporate environment of an internet television platform, the hiera…
Reframing everyday life. Implications of social distancing in Italy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the measures of social distancing and home confinement have been perceived and experienced in the Italian socio-cultural context, how they reshaped everyday life and which are their social implications. Design/methodology/approach The study was exploratory and interpretative in nature and a qualitative research design was adopted accordingly. A total of 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews…
Remote Work Between Narratives of Indipendence and Fractured Experiences. A Qualitative Research During the Pandemic Crisis
This paper focuses on how remote workers experienced their job and everyday life during the Italian lockdown imposed by the national government to contain the spread of COVID-19. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on thei…
Critical Pedagogy as a Practice of Resistance to Algorithms
Today using the Internet implies primarily using digital platforms, that actively participate in the co-construction of social life. In this scenario, users have often been depicted as powerless, subjected to exploitative commercial practices, and as having internalized their condition of surveilled and datafied individuals. However, little attention has been paid to how individuals make sense of algorithms in their everyday life and how exert th…
Collaborating at Microscopic and Massive Scales
Global events like a pandemic or climate change are massive in scope but experienced at the local, lived, microscopic level. What sorts of methodologies and mindsets can help critical internet researchers, functioning as interventionists or activists, find traction by oscillating between these levels? How can we push (further) against the boundaries of research methods to build stronger coalitions and more impactful outcomes for social change amo…
Living and Working Confined at Home
The ubiquity of digital platforms has progressively re-structured everyday life, as individuals are embedded within a structure of permanent connectivity and surveillance. A growing literature is exploring how digital platforms play a fundamental role in consolidating platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017). Spreading across the production and reproduction of social life, digital platforms have come to significantly re-mediate social relationships an…
Everything is inside the home
This article investigates the ways in which social distancing and home confinement restrictions have been experienced and perceived in the Italian socio-cultural context, in order to assess how they reshaped everyday life, and which are their social implications. Drawing on 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews, this article sheds light on the sense-making processes and the construction of inter-subjective meaning around home confinement and soc…
Everything is inside the home
This article investigates the ways in which social distancing and home confinement restrictions have been experienced and perceived in the Italian socio-cultural context, in order to assess how they reshaped everyday life, and which are their social implications. Drawing on 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews, this article sheds light on the sense-making processes and the construction of inter-subjective meaning around home confinement and soc…
The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals' platform experiences
The Social Life of an Optimised Song
Music streaming platforms are complex socio-technical infrastructures that co-construct cultural production, distribution, and reception. Different contributions have highlighted that artists, producers, and operators may implement optimisation processes, based on their algorithmic imaginaries, to align their music to the modes of listening and categorisation imposed by algorithmic media. Drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured interviews with pro…
Reframing everyday life. Implications of social distancing in Italy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the measures of social distancing and home confinement have been perceived and experienced in the Italian socio-cultural context, how they reshaped everyday life and which are their social implications. Design/methodology/approach The study was exploratory and interpretative in nature and a qualitative research design was adopted accordingly. A total of 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews…
Living and Working Confined at Home
The ubiquity of digital platforms has progressively re-structured everyday life, as individuals are embedded within a structure of permanent connectivity and surveillance. A growing literature is exploring how digital platforms play a fundamental role in consolidating platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017). Spreading across the production and reproduction of social life, digital platforms have come to significantly re-mediate social relationships an…
Everything is inside the home
This article investigates the ways in which social distancing and home confinement restrictions have been experienced and perceived in the Italian socio-cultural context, in order to assess how they reshaped everyday life, and which are their social implications. Drawing on 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews, this article sheds light on the sense-making processes and the construction of inter-subjective meaning around home confinement and soc…
Remote Work Between Narratives of Indipendence and Fractured Experiences. A Qualitative Research During the Pandemic Crisis
This paper focuses on how remote workers experienced their job and everyday life during the Italian lockdown imposed by the national government to contain the spread of COVID-19. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on thei…
Critical Pedagogy as a Practice of Resistance to Algorithms
Today using the Internet implies primarily using digital platforms, that actively participate in the co-construction of social life. In this scenario, users have often been depicted as powerless, subjected to exploitative commercial practices, and as having internalized their condition of surveilled and datafied individuals. However, little attention has been paid to how individuals make sense of algorithms in their everyday life and how exert th…
Collaborating at Microscopic and Massive Scales
Global events like a pandemic or climate change are massive in scope but experienced at the local, lived, microscopic level. What sorts of methodologies and mindsets can help critical internet researchers, functioning as interventionists or activists, find traction by oscillating between these levels? How can we push (further) against the boundaries of research methods to build stronger coalitions and more impactful outcomes for social change amo…
Reframing everyday life. Implications of social distancing in Italy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the measures of social distancing and home confinement have been perceived and experienced in the Italian socio-cultural context, how they reshaped everyday life and which are their social implications. Design/methodology/approach The study was exploratory and interpretative in nature and a qualitative research design was adopted accordingly. A total of 60 in-depth semi-structured interviews…
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a further extension of the sociotechnical logics of digital platforms to every realm of social life. Given the colonialist, oppressive and exploitative dynamics through which digital platforms work, several scholars supported the need to embrace an openly activist role to help individuals contrast the ways in which they are trapped in loops of dependency and trajectorism. Drawing on the results of 40 auto-ethnograph…
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace
In recent years, several scholars have highlighted the necessity to scrutinize the practices and material settings in which algorithmic models are designed, in order to unpack the working activities and socio-cultural constructs underlying their production and deployment process. Drawing on a multisited ethnography, this paper investigates the practices of tech workers within the corporate environment of an internet television platform, the hiera…
The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals' platform experiences
Educational offer in older adult home care for migrant family care assistants
Introduction The increasing number of older people with multiple chronic diseases determines care demand, while the number of formal and informal caregivers is decreasing. In many EU countries, migrant family care assistants (MFCAs) bridge the gap between supply and demand of H24 tailored home care, often without training in older adult care. This study aims to explore older adult care education for (migrant) family care assistants at the Europea…
Critical, Qualitative and Situated
Social researchers have extensively examined the systematic role played by digital platforms, algorithms and datafication processes in shaping social life. In response to the overwhelming power asymmetries, datafication processes and extractive conditions imposed on users, different scholars have emphasized the need for educational initiatives that foster forms of critical digital literacy. This article explores how critical pedagogical approache…
Algorithmic selfing
This article conducts an existential media analysis of the temporalities favoured by algorithmic media and experienced by users and the related possibilities of selfhood. Specifically, I advance the concept of ‘algorithmic selfing’ to indicate a form of processual Self that is temporarily constructed and incessantly reconstructed within the temporal relationships individuals develop with algorithmic media. This process of algorithmic selfing occu…
Enacting and re-politicising co-design
The recent institutionalisation of the co-design approach in eHealth interventions has resulted in an increased focus on providing technological solutions rather than addressing social issues, which has led co-design to gradually lose its political value. The aim of this theoretical article is to propose a re-politicisation of the co-design process of eHealth technologies through the application of the concept of “enactment”. Drawing on various i…
The Social Life of an Optimised Song
Music streaming platforms are complex socio-technical infrastructures that co-construct cultural production, distribution, and reception. Different contributions have highlighted that artists, producers, and operators may implement optimisation processes, based on their algorithmic imaginaries, to align their music to the modes of listening and categorisation imposed by algorithmic media. Drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured interviews with pro…
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
The risk of trust
This paper examines AI narratives in healthcare and, more specifically, how people attribute trust to the role of AI in breast cancer detection. To do so, it draws on a content analysis conducted on 701 online user comments to a New York Times article, using Sztompka’s trust framework to identify and scrutinise the different forms of trust at play. Findings offer critical insights for digital health studies and social science studies of risk and …
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · Everyday life (5 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)