Alessandro Lovari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Lovari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovari |
| SIGNATURE | LOVARI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cagliari |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5877-467X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between public service and market
This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing institutional competition. Drawing on Bourdieusian conceptual categories, the analysis highlights how pla…
Exploring the Challenges of Generative AI on Public Sector Communication in Europe
This study investigates how emerging digital technologies, particularly generative AI tools, are transforming public sector communication in Europe, highlighting the profound intersection between public organizations, AI, and human interactions. In particular, it explores the opportunities and risks that public sector communicators face as they deal with and integrate digital platforms and AI‐driven tools into their strategies and practices in a …
Tweeting a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an urgent need for public health departments to clearly communicate their prevention, testing, and treatment recommendations. Previous research supports that Twitter is an important platform that public health departments use to communicate crisis information to stakeholders. This study aimed to shed light on how international health departments shared relevant information about COVID-19 on Twitter in 2020. We …
I Know That I Know
The increasing access to online health information and the use of this information for self‐medication or self‐diagnosis can foster a discounting of the epistemic authority of experts, as well as an over‐reliance on laypersons' expertise. However, the emerging cognitive bias—the overconfidence effect—is poorly investigated in the sociological field. This study offers a novel contribution to the role of overconfidence bias in online health informa…
Social Media Logic and Health Communication Between Independence and Constraints
This paper presents the results of a study that investigated how local health authorities (LHAs) located in the most impacted areas by Covid-19 of Lombardy (North of Italy) answered to the challenges imposed by the pandemic through their official Facebook pages during the early weeks of the emergency (January-March 2020). The goal is to understand how the logics of social media affected LHAs’ communication, representing an opportunity for health …
Platformization of healthcare communication
Over the past few years, public health organizations have adopted new communication practices, such as social media communication, framed by the concepts of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. These concepts need to be reconsidered in the light of the transformation of social media as digital platforms. This article aims to define and critically discuss the concept of the platformization of healthcare communication, investigating the impact of social me…
Blurred Shots
This article aims at exploring a case of information crisis in Italy through the lens of vaccination-related topics. Such a controversial issue, dividing public opinion and political agendas, has received diverse information coverage and public policies over time in the Italian context, whose situation appears quite unique compared with other countries because of a strong media spectacularization and politicization of the topic. In particular, ap…
Spreading (Dis)Trust
The commentary focuses on the spread of Covid-19 misinformation in Italy, highlighting the dynamics that have impacted on its pandemic communication. Italy has recently been affected by a progressive erosion of trust in public institutions and a general state of information crisis regarding matters of health and science. In this context, the politicization of health issues and a growing use of social media to confront the Coronavirus “infodemic” …
Social media in disaster communication
The manuscript investigates how social media were used during a flood disaster managed by public affairs officers. We conducted high‐level “elite” interviews with the state's top emergency managers about their social media policies, practices, and use in both media relations and citizen communication. We explored the strategies and communication models implemented, challenges and barriers for effective adoption of these platforms, and ethical imp…
Citizens' Relationships with a Municipality and Their Communicative Behaviors in Negative Civic Issues
A Web survey involving 293 citizens in Siena, Italy, revealed how perceived relationship quality with a municipality and prior experiences of residence can create strategic value for local governments. In particular, the quality of relations with citizens makes these holders of good relationships view civic problems as less problematic, although the problems impact residents' interests. Implications for public relations research and practices are…
Social media in disaster communication
The manuscript investigates how social media were used during a flood disaster managed by public affairs officers. We conducted high‐level “elite” interviews with the state's top emergency managers about their social media policies, practices, and use in both media relations and citizen communication. We explored the strategies and communication models implemented, challenges and barriers for effective adoption of these platforms, and ethical imp…
I Know That I Know
The increasing access to online health information and the use of this information for self‐medication or self‐diagnosis can foster a discounting of the epistemic authority of experts, as well as an over‐reliance on laypersons' expertise. However, the emerging cognitive bias—the overconfidence effect—is poorly investigated in the sociological field. This study offers a novel contribution to the role of overconfidence bias in online health informa…
Platformization of healthcare communication
Over the past few years, public health organizations have adopted new communication practices, such as social media communication, framed by the concepts of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. These concepts need to be reconsidered in the light of the transformation of social media as digital platforms. This article aims to define and critically discuss the concept of the platformization of healthcare communication, investigating the impact of social me…
Blurred Shots
This article aims at exploring a case of information crisis in Italy through the lens of vaccination-related topics. Such a controversial issue, dividing public opinion and political agendas, has received diverse information coverage and public policies over time in the Italian context, whose situation appears quite unique compared with other countries because of a strong media spectacularization and politicization of the topic. In particular, ap…
Citizens' Relationships with a Municipality and Their Communicative Behaviors in Negative Civic Issues
A Web survey involving 293 citizens in Siena, Italy, revealed how perceived relationship quality with a municipality and prior experiences of residence can create strategic value for local governments. In particular, the quality of relations with citizens makes these holders of good relationships view civic problems as less problematic, although the problems impact residents' interests. Implications for public relations research and practices are…
Citizens' Relationships with a Municipality and Their Communicative Behaviors in Negative Civic Issues
A Web survey involving 293 citizens in Siena, Italy, revealed how perceived relationship quality with a municipality and prior experiences of residence can create strategic value for local governments. In particular, the quality of relations with citizens makes these holders of good relationships view civic problems as less problematic, although the problems impact residents' interests. Implications for public relations research and practices are…
Social media in disaster communication
The manuscript investigates how social media were used during a flood disaster managed by public affairs officers. We conducted high‐level “elite” interviews with the state's top emergency managers about their social media policies, practices, and use in both media relations and citizen communication. We explored the strategies and communication models implemented, challenges and barriers for effective adoption of these platforms, and ethical imp…
Spreading (Dis)Trust
The commentary focuses on the spread of Covid-19 misinformation in Italy, highlighting the dynamics that have impacted on its pandemic communication. Italy has recently been affected by a progressive erosion of trust in public institutions and a general state of information crisis regarding matters of health and science. In this context, the politicization of health issues and a growing use of social media to confront the Coronavirus “infodemic” …
Social Media Logic and Health Communication Between Independence and Constraints
This paper presents the results of a study that investigated how local health authorities (LHAs) located in the most impacted areas by Covid-19 of Lombardy (North of Italy) answered to the challenges imposed by the pandemic through their official Facebook pages during the early weeks of the emergency (January-March 2020). The goal is to understand how the logics of social media affected LHAs’ communication, representing an opportunity for health …
Platformization of healthcare communication
Over the past few years, public health organizations have adopted new communication practices, such as social media communication, framed by the concepts of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. These concepts need to be reconsidered in the light of the transformation of social media as digital platforms. This article aims to define and critically discuss the concept of the platformization of healthcare communication, investigating the impact of social me…
Blurred Shots
This article aims at exploring a case of information crisis in Italy through the lens of vaccination-related topics. Such a controversial issue, dividing public opinion and political agendas, has received diverse information coverage and public policies over time in the Italian context, whose situation appears quite unique compared with other countries because of a strong media spectacularization and politicization of the topic. In particular, ap…
Tweeting a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an urgent need for public health departments to clearly communicate their prevention, testing, and treatment recommendations. Previous research supports that Twitter is an important platform that public health departments use to communicate crisis information to stakeholders. This study aimed to shed light on how international health departments shared relevant information about COVID-19 on Twitter in 2020. We …
I Know That I Know
The increasing access to online health information and the use of this information for self‐medication or self‐diagnosis can foster a discounting of the epistemic authority of experts, as well as an over‐reliance on laypersons' expertise. However, the emerging cognitive bias—the overconfidence effect—is poorly investigated in the sociological field. This study offers a novel contribution to the role of overconfidence bias in online health informa…
Exploring the Challenges of Generative AI on Public Sector Communication in Europe
This study investigates how emerging digital technologies, particularly generative AI tools, are transforming public sector communication in Europe, highlighting the profound intersection between public organizations, AI, and human interactions. In particular, it explores the opportunities and risks that public sector communicators face as they deal with and integrate digital platforms and AI‐driven tools into their strategies and practices in a …
Between public service and market
This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing institutional competition. Drawing on Bourdieusian conceptual categories, the analysis highlights how pla…
Political science (8 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (5 works) · Health communication (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)