Mauro Barisione
Biographic Data
| ID | 2098992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Barisione |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Barisione |
| SIGNATURE | BARISIONE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2032-3486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Charismatic machines
This article develops a sociological theory of the epistemic power of generative AI within AI-centered platform convergence, as these systems are increasingly embedded in knowledge infrastructures. We define epistemic power as the capacity to structure collective perceptions of credibility and confer legitimacy in knowledge production. Drawing on Bourdieu and Weber, we introduce “charismatic machines”: AI systems that acquire authority not throug…
Between AI fear and digital agency
This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’ – i.e., its capacity to redefine knowledge production – including its ability to blur the boundaries between real and fully synthetic content, thereby facilitating misinformation and potentially undermining democratic stability. We posit that social media use, GenAI familiarity, and the abilit…
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber
More than a century after Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, the idea of charisma is still commonly associated with a leader’s personal qualities. This personalistic and—as I argue—simplistic understanding of the Weberian theory of charisma was perpetuated, especially in leadership studies, during the twentieth century by political scientists, social psychologists, and sociologists. Generally overlooked is the fact that the Weberian notion of charism…
When ethnic prejudice is political
When the immigration issue has been strongly politicized, prejudice toward minority out-groups can be profoundly imbued with politics, to the point that citizen responses to partisan cues about immigrants tend to operate on the basis of a ‘political sympathy/antipathy bias’. This article demonstrates that there is a direct causal relation between the nature (i.e. contents and sources) of political communication over immigrants and voters' respons…
Understanding a digital movement of opinion
Recent work on digital political engagement has extensively shown that social media platforms enhance political participation and collective action. However, the idea that citizen voice through social media can give rise, under given conditions, to a specific digital force combining properties of social movements and public opinion has received less attention. We fill this gap by analysing the digital discussion around the Twitter hashtag #Refuge…
L'ascesa degli esperimenti di survey
Do the self-employed still vote for centre-right parties? The cases of the UK, Italy and Spain
The ‘new’ discourse of the Front National under Marine Le Pen
In recent years, the Front National, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has experienced a political revival. In elections, membership numbers and public opinion polls, the party has made impressive gains. We argue in this article that these gains stem, at least in part, from a strategic repositioning of the party based on a more populist discourse and communication style. Through a content analysis of posts (press releases) on the party’s Fac…
Too Much an Out-Group? How Nonverbal Cues About Gender and Ethnicity Affect Candidate Support
Previous work on nonverbal cues has demonstrated the influence of candidates’ facial displays on voter preferences. However, the idea that visual cues affect political judgment by signaling the relative social solidarity (in-group vs. out-group status) between candidates and voters has received little attention. We fill this gap by experimentally manipulating facial cues associated with the physical features of gender and ethnicity (Afrocentric v…
The Partisan Gap in Leader Support and Attitude Polarization in a Campaign Environment
An under-investigated yet exemplary form of political polarization in the mass public is the so-called “partisan gap in leader support.” By providing an original analysis of two non-U.S. contexts—the 2013 German and Italian general elections—we show that the simple act of voting for a party involves partisan-motivated reasoning, that is, evaluations of party leaders that are clearly sorted along party lines (in-party leader vs. all out-party lead…
Non-verbal cues as a test of gender and race bias in politics
Gender and race biases persist in western democracies, with male and white candidates still being the norm. Voters may be more inclined to express sexist and racist attitudes in countries with a traditionally male-dominated political system and a majority-white population. As sexism and racism are notoriously difficult to document, and because many people are unaware of their biases toward social groups, we bypass conventional survey measurement …
Debunking the myth of a "Traditional" gender gap in the electoral support for Silvio Berlusconi in Italy (1994-2013)
Framing a Deliberation. Deliberative Democracy and the Challenge of Framing Processes
Among both scholars and practioners, the critical importance of framing processes in the realm of deliberative democracy has been neither formally acknowledged nor adequately studied so far. The purpose of this theoretical article is to craft and define the analytical concepts and methodological tools necessary to shed light on this complex relationship. After introducing the notion of ‘deliberative frame’, which is examined across two distinct f…
Valence Image and the Standardisation of Democratic Political Leadership
The principles of selection of national candidates and contenders for political leadership are becoming increasingly standardised in Western contemporary democracies, which have been affected by two widespread processes: first, the growth of mass political communication via the electronic media; and second, the increasing deficit of perceived legitimacy of traditional representative institutions. After analysing such processes, this article draws…
Le Scelte Politiche Dei Cittadini
George E. Marcus, W. Russel Neuman e Michael MacKuen, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgement , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 199, Isbn 0-226-50468-9 Citizens and Politics esce dieci anni dopo i due lavori che più hanno segnato l'attuale psicologia politica e il campo delle ricerche sull'opinione pubblica negli Stati Uniti: Reasoning and Choice di Sniderman et al (1991) e The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion di Zaller (…
Elettori Indecisi, Elettori Fluttuanti
Introduzione In un sistema d'alternanza, un tipico esito elettorale è quello in virtù del quale il partito o la coalizione vincente accede alle funzioni di governo grazie ad un margine di voti esiguo, sufficiente tuttavia a fare la differenza rispetto alla coalizione avversaria e, magari, rispetto al proprio risultato delle elezioni precedenti. Se, tuttavia, i punti percentuali che una coalizione acquista (o perde) da un'elezione all'altra sono a…
Interesse Per La Politica, Appartenenza Di Coalizione E Giudizio Sui Leader
Introduzione Si sa che ogni elezione ha una storia a sé, fatta di un groviglio di fattori che concorrono a definirne l'esito. Così, i fattori di lungo periodo legati per esempio alla geografia elettorale o alle appartenenze sociali si attorcigliano con i fattori congiunturali, quali la strategia comunicativa di una coalizione o l'immagine di un leader politico. Di elezione in elezione, uno degli interrogativi più appassionanti che il ricercatore …
The ‘new’ discourse of the Front National under Marine Le Pen
In recent years, the Front National, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has experienced a political revival. In elections, membership numbers and public opinion polls, the party has made impressive gains. We argue in this article that these gains stem, at least in part, from a strategic repositioning of the party based on a more populist discourse and communication style. Through a content analysis of posts (press releases) on the party’s Fac…
When ethnic prejudice is political
When the immigration issue has been strongly politicized, prejudice toward minority out-groups can be profoundly imbued with politics, to the point that citizen responses to partisan cues about immigrants tend to operate on the basis of a ‘political sympathy/antipathy bias’. This article demonstrates that there is a direct causal relation between the nature (i.e. contents and sources) of political communication over immigrants and voters' respons…
Debunking the myth of a "Traditional" gender gap in the electoral support for Silvio Berlusconi in Italy (1994-2013)
Elettori Indecisi, Elettori Fluttuanti
Introduzione In un sistema d'alternanza, un tipico esito elettorale è quello in virtù del quale il partito o la coalizione vincente accede alle funzioni di governo grazie ad un margine di voti esiguo, sufficiente tuttavia a fare la differenza rispetto alla coalizione avversaria e, magari, rispetto al proprio risultato delle elezioni precedenti. Se, tuttavia, i punti percentuali che una coalizione acquista (o perde) da un'elezione all'altra sono a…
Valence Image and the Standardisation of Democratic Political Leadership
The principles of selection of national candidates and contenders for political leadership are becoming increasingly standardised in Western contemporary democracies, which have been affected by two widespread processes: first, the growth of mass political communication via the electronic media; and second, the increasing deficit of perceived legitimacy of traditional representative institutions. After analysing such processes, this article draws…
Interesse Per La Politica, Appartenenza Di Coalizione E Giudizio Sui Leader
Introduzione Si sa che ogni elezione ha una storia a sé, fatta di un groviglio di fattori che concorrono a definirne l'esito. Così, i fattori di lungo periodo legati per esempio alla geografia elettorale o alle appartenenze sociali si attorcigliano con i fattori congiunturali, quali la strategia comunicativa di una coalizione o l'immagine di un leader politico. Di elezione in elezione, uno degli interrogativi più appassionanti che il ricercatore …
Non-verbal cues as a test of gender and race bias in politics
Gender and race biases persist in western democracies, with male and white candidates still being the norm. Voters may be more inclined to express sexist and racist attitudes in countries with a traditionally male-dominated political system and a majority-white population. As sexism and racism are notoriously difficult to document, and because many people are unaware of their biases toward social groups, we bypass conventional survey measurement …
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber
More than a century after Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, the idea of charisma is still commonly associated with a leader’s personal qualities. This personalistic and—as I argue—simplistic understanding of the Weberian theory of charisma was perpetuated, especially in leadership studies, during the twentieth century by political scientists, social psychologists, and sociologists. Generally overlooked is the fact that the Weberian notion of charism…
Do the self-employed still vote for centre-right parties? The cases of the UK, Italy and Spain
Too Much an Out-Group? How Nonverbal Cues About Gender and Ethnicity Affect Candidate Support
Previous work on nonverbal cues has demonstrated the influence of candidates’ facial displays on voter preferences. However, the idea that visual cues affect political judgment by signaling the relative social solidarity (in-group vs. out-group status) between candidates and voters has received little attention. We fill this gap by experimentally manipulating facial cues associated with the physical features of gender and ethnicity (Afrocentric v…
L'ascesa degli esperimenti di survey
The Partisan Gap in Leader Support and Attitude Polarization in a Campaign Environment
An under-investigated yet exemplary form of political polarization in the mass public is the so-called “partisan gap in leader support.” By providing an original analysis of two non-U.S. contexts—the 2013 German and Italian general elections—we show that the simple act of voting for a party involves partisan-motivated reasoning, that is, evaluations of party leaders that are clearly sorted along party lines (in-party leader vs. all out-party lead…
Elettori Indecisi, Elettori Fluttuanti
Introduzione In un sistema d'alternanza, un tipico esito elettorale è quello in virtù del quale il partito o la coalizione vincente accede alle funzioni di governo grazie ad un margine di voti esiguo, sufficiente tuttavia a fare la differenza rispetto alla coalizione avversaria e, magari, rispetto al proprio risultato delle elezioni precedenti. Se, tuttavia, i punti percentuali che una coalizione acquista (o perde) da un'elezione all'altra sono a…
Interesse Per La Politica, Appartenenza Di Coalizione E Giudizio Sui Leader
Introduzione Si sa che ogni elezione ha una storia a sé, fatta di un groviglio di fattori che concorrono a definirne l'esito. Così, i fattori di lungo periodo legati per esempio alla geografia elettorale o alle appartenenze sociali si attorcigliano con i fattori congiunturali, quali la strategia comunicativa di una coalizione o l'immagine di un leader politico. Di elezione in elezione, uno degli interrogativi più appassionanti che il ricercatore …
Le Scelte Politiche Dei Cittadini
George E. Marcus, W. Russel Neuman e Michael MacKuen, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgement , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 199, Isbn 0-226-50468-9 Citizens and Politics esce dieci anni dopo i due lavori che più hanno segnato l'attuale psicologia politica e il campo delle ricerche sull'opinione pubblica negli Stati Uniti: Reasoning and Choice di Sniderman et al (1991) e The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion di Zaller (…
Valence Image and the Standardisation of Democratic Political Leadership
The principles of selection of national candidates and contenders for political leadership are becoming increasingly standardised in Western contemporary democracies, which have been affected by two widespread processes: first, the growth of mass political communication via the electronic media; and second, the increasing deficit of perceived legitimacy of traditional representative institutions. After analysing such processes, this article draws…
Framing a Deliberation. Deliberative Democracy and the Challenge of Framing Processes
Among both scholars and practioners, the critical importance of framing processes in the realm of deliberative democracy has been neither formally acknowledged nor adequately studied so far. The purpose of this theoretical article is to craft and define the analytical concepts and methodological tools necessary to shed light on this complex relationship. After introducing the notion of ‘deliberative frame’, which is examined across two distinct f…
Debunking the myth of a "Traditional" gender gap in the electoral support for Silvio Berlusconi in Italy (1994-2013)
Non-verbal cues as a test of gender and race bias in politics
Gender and race biases persist in western democracies, with male and white candidates still being the norm. Voters may be more inclined to express sexist and racist attitudes in countries with a traditionally male-dominated political system and a majority-white population. As sexism and racism are notoriously difficult to document, and because many people are unaware of their biases toward social groups, we bypass conventional survey measurement …
Too Much an Out-Group? How Nonverbal Cues About Gender and Ethnicity Affect Candidate Support
Previous work on nonverbal cues has demonstrated the influence of candidates’ facial displays on voter preferences. However, the idea that visual cues affect political judgment by signaling the relative social solidarity (in-group vs. out-group status) between candidates and voters has received little attention. We fill this gap by experimentally manipulating facial cues associated with the physical features of gender and ethnicity (Afrocentric v…
The Partisan Gap in Leader Support and Attitude Polarization in a Campaign Environment
An under-investigated yet exemplary form of political polarization in the mass public is the so-called “partisan gap in leader support.” By providing an original analysis of two non-U.S. contexts—the 2013 German and Italian general elections—we show that the simple act of voting for a party involves partisan-motivated reasoning, that is, evaluations of party leaders that are clearly sorted along party lines (in-party leader vs. all out-party lead…
The ‘new’ discourse of the Front National under Marine Le Pen
In recent years, the Front National, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has experienced a political revival. In elections, membership numbers and public opinion polls, the party has made impressive gains. We argue in this article that these gains stem, at least in part, from a strategic repositioning of the party based on a more populist discourse and communication style. Through a content analysis of posts (press releases) on the party’s Fac…
L'ascesa degli esperimenti di survey
Do the self-employed still vote for centre-right parties? The cases of the UK, Italy and Spain
Understanding a digital movement of opinion
Recent work on digital political engagement has extensively shown that social media platforms enhance political participation and collective action. However, the idea that citizen voice through social media can give rise, under given conditions, to a specific digital force combining properties of social movements and public opinion has received less attention. We fill this gap by analysing the digital discussion around the Twitter hashtag #Refuge…
When ethnic prejudice is political
When the immigration issue has been strongly politicized, prejudice toward minority out-groups can be profoundly imbued with politics, to the point that citizen responses to partisan cues about immigrants tend to operate on the basis of a ‘political sympathy/antipathy bias’. This article demonstrates that there is a direct causal relation between the nature (i.e. contents and sources) of political communication over immigrants and voters' respons…
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber
More than a century after Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, the idea of charisma is still commonly associated with a leader’s personal qualities. This personalistic and—as I argue—simplistic understanding of the Weberian theory of charisma was perpetuated, especially in leadership studies, during the twentieth century by political scientists, social psychologists, and sociologists. Generally overlooked is the fact that the Weberian notion of charism…
Between AI fear and digital agency
This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’ – i.e., its capacity to redefine knowledge production – including its ability to blur the boundaries between real and fully synthetic content, thereby facilitating misinformation and potentially undermining democratic stability. We posit that social media use, GenAI familiarity, and the abilit…
Charismatic machines
This article develops a sociological theory of the epistemic power of generative AI within AI-centered platform convergence, as these systems are increasingly embedded in knowledge infrastructures. We define epistemic power as the capacity to structure collective perceptions of credibility and confer legitimacy in knowledge production. Drawing on Bourdieu and Weber, we introduce “charismatic machines”: AI systems that acquire authority not throug…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works)