Roberto Mincigrucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 170083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Mincigrucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Mincigrucci |
| SIGNATURE | MINCIGRUCCI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Perugia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5754-387X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Tangentopoli Effect
This article examines Tangentopoli, Italy’s most significant corruption scandal, and its pivotal role in the emergence of media-driven populism. While much of the academic debate on corruption has focused on political influences on the press, less attention has been given to how market forces, driven by commercial imperatives, shape the media’s role in covering corruption. These pressures often result in sensationalism and scandal-driven coverage…
Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries
The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding journalistic work across countries. One of the main differences in conceptualising concerns the journalist's propensity for intervention: where in some contexts it is common practice for journalists to intervene with commentary and interpretation; while in others there is a tendency to adopt a more neutral reporting style. Through the conceptua…
Engaging With Fandom and Politics
The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte. We analyzed posts between 2018 and 2022 with t…
The societal context of professional practice
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
It's Social Media, Stupid! Opportunities and Constraints in the Representation of Corruption in and Through Social Media
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of the media in relation to corruption. This interest, however, has particularly concerned legacy media, leaving the role played by social media in relation to corruption largely unexplored. This study attempts to understand how social media contributes to the public representation of corruption through an analysis of the actors who discuss it and the topics they introduce into the debate. Des…
Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal
While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on media and corruption in recent years, the role of digital media and, in particular, social media is still an open question in corruption and anti-corruption studies Through this study, we aim to partially bridge the existing gap in literature by focusing our attention on the study of a corruption scandal, namely the Qatargate scandal. We will demonstrate that the affordanc…
A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time
Information operations that target public opinion often exploit breaking news, crises, and elections by using coordinated social media actors to disseminate problematic content. These events often reveal the relationships between actors, prompting the creation of lists of malicious actors and news sources. However, relying on outdated lists may underestimate the prevalence and impact of such operations. This article presents a novel workflow to d…
Storytelling through images
In contemporary democracies, the image that political leaders project is of central importance to their electoral appeal, however, studies of image projection have mainly been based on textual messages, undermining often visual content such as photos, memes and postcards. This study explores populist leaders image projection through visuals on Facebook in a cross-national context, with the aim of verifying if politicians use images to promote the…
Il superleader (“ordinario”). Matteo Salvini e il suo corpo
Attraverso uno studio delle immagini pubblicate da Matteo Salvini nella sua pagina Facebook, il presente studio mira ad analizzare l uso che il leader leghista fa del suo corpo. L ipotesi di fondo à ̈ che attraverso un uso strategico di simboli associati al proprio corpo, Salvini punti a trovare il giusto mix tra  super eroe e  persona normale , al fine di risolvere quello che in letteratura viene definito  il paradosso del leader democrat…
The representation of Matteo Salvini in gossip magazines
One of the most prominent personalities of contemporary Italian politics is Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega (League). Salvini is not only a popular politician: he can also be considered a celebrity. He became a recognizable character through his constant presence in the popular media and his habit of appearing in informal contexts. Through an analysis of three of the main Italian gossip magazines (Chi, Oggi and Vanity Fair) between Februar…
Constraints and limitations of investigative journalism in Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Romania
The article provides evidences about mechanisms and practices that undermine the effectiveness of investigative journalism through the analysis of selected case studies of corruptive phenomena in Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. In particular, the article shows that the idea of watchdog journalism does not work actually in the observed countries. Indeed, investigative journalism requires certain socio-economic conditions, such as a low degree …
The societal context of professional practice
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Constraints and limitations of investigative journalism in Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Romania
The article provides evidences about mechanisms and practices that undermine the effectiveness of investigative journalism through the analysis of selected case studies of corruptive phenomena in Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. In particular, the article shows that the idea of watchdog journalism does not work actually in the observed countries. Indeed, investigative journalism requires certain socio-economic conditions, such as a low degree …
A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time
Information operations that target public opinion often exploit breaking news, crises, and elections by using coordinated social media actors to disseminate problematic content. These events often reveal the relationships between actors, prompting the creation of lists of malicious actors and news sources. However, relying on outdated lists may underestimate the prevalence and impact of such operations. This article presents a novel workflow to d…
Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries
The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding journalistic work across countries. One of the main differences in conceptualising concerns the journalist's propensity for intervention: where in some contexts it is common practice for journalists to intervene with commentary and interpretation; while in others there is a tendency to adopt a more neutral reporting style. Through the conceptua…
Engaging With Fandom and Politics
The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte. We analyzed posts between 2018 and 2022 with t…
Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal
While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on media and corruption in recent years, the role of digital media and, in particular, social media is still an open question in corruption and anti-corruption studies Through this study, we aim to partially bridge the existing gap in literature by focusing our attention on the study of a corruption scandal, namely the Qatargate scandal. We will demonstrate that the affordanc…
Constraints and limitations of investigative journalism in Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Romania
The article provides evidences about mechanisms and practices that undermine the effectiveness of investigative journalism through the analysis of selected case studies of corruptive phenomena in Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. In particular, the article shows that the idea of watchdog journalism does not work actually in the observed countries. Indeed, investigative journalism requires certain socio-economic conditions, such as a low degree …
Il superleader (“ordinario”). Matteo Salvini e il suo corpo
Attraverso uno studio delle immagini pubblicate da Matteo Salvini nella sua pagina Facebook, il presente studio mira ad analizzare l uso che il leader leghista fa del suo corpo. L ipotesi di fondo à ̈ che attraverso un uso strategico di simboli associati al proprio corpo, Salvini punti a trovare il giusto mix tra  super eroe e  persona normale , al fine di risolvere quello che in letteratura viene definito  il paradosso del leader democrat…
The representation of Matteo Salvini in gossip magazines
One of the most prominent personalities of contemporary Italian politics is Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega (League). Salvini is not only a popular politician: he can also be considered a celebrity. He became a recognizable character through his constant presence in the popular media and his habit of appearing in informal contexts. Through an analysis of three of the main Italian gossip magazines (Chi, Oggi and Vanity Fair) between Februar…
Storytelling through images
In contemporary democracies, the image that political leaders project is of central importance to their electoral appeal, however, studies of image projection have mainly been based on textual messages, undermining often visual content such as photos, memes and postcards. This study explores populist leaders image projection through visuals on Facebook in a cross-national context, with the aim of verifying if politicians use images to promote the…
A Workflow to Detect, Monitor, and Update Lists of Coordinated Social Media Accounts Across Time
Information operations that target public opinion often exploit breaking news, crises, and elections by using coordinated social media actors to disseminate problematic content. These events often reveal the relationships between actors, prompting the creation of lists of malicious actors and news sources. However, relying on outdated lists may underestimate the prevalence and impact of such operations. This article presents a novel workflow to d…
Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries
The literature comparing journalistic roles around the world highlights different ways of understanding journalistic work across countries. One of the main differences in conceptualising concerns the journalist's propensity for intervention: where in some contexts it is common practice for journalists to intervene with commentary and interpretation; while in others there is a tendency to adopt a more neutral reporting style. Through the conceptua…
Engaging With Fandom and Politics
The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte. We analyzed posts between 2018 and 2022 with t…
The societal context of professional practice
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
It's Social Media, Stupid! Opportunities and Constraints in the Representation of Corruption in and Through Social Media
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of the media in relation to corruption. This interest, however, has particularly concerned legacy media, leaving the role played by social media in relation to corruption largely unexplored. This study attempts to understand how social media contributes to the public representation of corruption through an analysis of the actors who discuss it and the topics they introduce into the debate. Des…
Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal
While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on media and corruption in recent years, the role of digital media and, in particular, social media is still an open question in corruption and anti-corruption studies Through this study, we aim to partially bridge the existing gap in literature by focusing our attention on the study of a corruption scandal, namely the Qatargate scandal. We will demonstrate that the affordanc…
The Tangentopoli Effect
This article examines Tangentopoli, Italy’s most significant corruption scandal, and its pivotal role in the emergence of media-driven populism. While much of the academic debate on corruption has focused on political influences on the press, less attention has been given to how market forces, driven by commercial imperatives, shape the media’s role in covering corruption. These pressures often result in sensationalism and scandal-driven coverage…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)