Maria Francesca Murru
Biographic Data
| ID | 292137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Francesca Murru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Murru |
| SIGNATURE | MURRU M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6992-4397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI and newsmaking: An exploratory investigation of discourses and practices in Italian newsrooms
This article delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on Italian journalism, providing an in-depth examination of how AI technologies are being integrated into and reshaping the journalistic landscape. Through a qualitative study, which includes 10 qualitative interviews with journalists, digital editors, and IT managers from leading Italian media companies, this research investigates the attitudes, expectations, and …
Bringing the Pandemic Home: Memes as Local Politics at Times of Global Crisis
It was late February 2020 when part of Northern Italy entered the first Covid-19 lockdown of the West. While stories of people fleeing quarantined areas soon made national headlines, the international news was suddenly reporting of coronavirus patients connected to Italy all around the world. Against this background, Italian social media started thriving with Covid-19 humour. On 9 March the lockdown turned nationwide and became one of the stricte…
Memetising the pandemic: Memes, covid-19 mundanity and political cultures
It was late February 2020 when part of Northern Italy entered the first Covid-19 lockdown of the West. While stories of people fleeing quarantined areas soon made national headlines, the international news was suddenly reporting of coronavirus patients connected to Italy all around the world. Against this background, Italian social media started thriving with Covid-19 humour. On 9 March the lockdown turned nationwide and became one of the stricte…
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
On 22 February 2020, 11 municipalities in Northern Italy became the first COVID-19 red zone of Europe. Two days later, when it became evident that the virus had been spreading in the country for weeks, Italy entered a "buffer zone," a temporal zone between normality and pandemic. The buffer zone lasted around 2 weeks and thrived with irony flowing on social media through memes, multimedia remixes, and jokes. As a collective ritual, irony allowed …
Bridging the Gap Between Micro and Macro Forms of Engagement: Three Emerging Trends in Research on Audience Participation
Stakeholder Discourses About Critical Literacies and Audience Participation
I Can Share Politics But I Don't Discuss It: Everyday Practices of Political Talk on Facebook
The article explores how a group of young people in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom experience and manage informal political talk on Facebook. Based on 60 interviews with 14- to 25-year-olds with diverse interest and participation in politics, it understands political talk as a social achievement dependent on the situational definition, shaped by the perceived imagined audiences, shared expectations, and technological affordances. Results …
A interseção entre o "óbvio" e o "público catalisado" através do domínio de mediatização das culturas cívicas
Este artigo procura estudar o modo como as novas formas de interação e de envolvimento colocadas à disposição pelas tecnologias online interativas e participativas poderão ajudar a incentivar o empoderamento das práticas cívicas. Este trabalho enforma uma reflexão teórica sobre as potenciais áreas de interseção entre as audiências, enquanto "persona ficta" (Dayan, 2005) que emerge no papel de encenar a atenção face a uma performance externa, e o …
The intersection between "obvious" and "catalyzed public" through the mediating domain of civic cultures
The paper intends to analyze how the new forms of interaction and engagement allowed by the interactive and participative online technologies can help to foster empowering civic practices. It develops a theoretical reflection on the potential intersections areas between audiences, thought as the "persona ficta" (Dayan, 2005) that emerges in the role of enacting attention towards an external performance, and the public, thought as a collective ent…
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens: Nouveaux résultats sur la vie privée, l'identité et les connexions sociales
L’utilisation des réseaux socionumériques est sans doute l’activité en ligne qui enregistre actuellement la croissance la plus rapide parmi les jeunes. Cet article présente de nouvelles conclusions pan-européennes du projet EU Kids Online sur la façon dont les enfants et les jeunes exploitent les possibilités des réseaux peer-to-peer offertes par les réseaux socionumériques, en se basant sur une enquête menée auprès d’environ 25 000 jeunes (1 000…
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens
Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth.This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by SNSs, based on a survey of around 25,000 children (1000 children in each of 25 countries).In all, 59% of European 9-16 year olds who use the internet have their own social networking profile.Despi…
Comparing media coverage of online risks for children in southern European countries: Italy, Portugal and Spain
Children's risks associated with the Internet and online technologies have been given great emphasis in media discourses across Europe. Perceptions and representations of online risks seem to be socially and culturally shaped, being rather different from one country to another. This article provides a comparative analysis of the press coverage of online risks in three European countries: Italy, Portugal and Spain. Being southern and Latin countri…
Italie: Une analogie avec l'Espagne
Cet article constitue l’un des éléments d’un dossier comparatif international sur le traitement médiatique de l’attentat survenu à la gare d’Atocha à Madrid en mars 2004. Centré sur l’Italie et basé sur l’étude d’un corpus des quatre principaux quotidiens, il analyse les orientations du discours développé par cette presse dans les jours qui ont suivi cet événement. Il montre, qu’après un moment de compassion devant les conséquences dramatiques de…
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
On 22 February 2020, 11 municipalities in Northern Italy became the first COVID-19 red zone of Europe. Two days later, when it became evident that the virus had been spreading in the country for weeks, Italy entered a "buffer zone," a temporal zone between normality and pandemic. The buffer zone lasted around 2 weeks and thrived with irony flowing on social media through memes, multimedia remixes, and jokes. As a collective ritual, irony allowed …
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens
Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth.This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by SNSs, based on a survey of around 25,000 children (1000 children in each of 25 countries).In all, 59% of European 9-16 year olds who use the internet have their own social networking profile.Despi…
I Can Share Politics But I Don't Discuss It: Everyday Practices of Political Talk on Facebook
The article explores how a group of young people in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom experience and manage informal political talk on Facebook. Based on 60 interviews with 14- to 25-year-olds with diverse interest and participation in politics, it understands political talk as a social achievement dependent on the situational definition, shaped by the perceived imagined audiences, shared expectations, and technological affordances. Results …
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens: Nouveaux résultats sur la vie privée, l'identité et les connexions sociales
L’utilisation des réseaux socionumériques est sans doute l’activité en ligne qui enregistre actuellement la croissance la plus rapide parmi les jeunes. Cet article présente de nouvelles conclusions pan-européennes du projet EU Kids Online sur la façon dont les enfants et les jeunes exploitent les possibilités des réseaux peer-to-peer offertes par les réseaux socionumériques, en se basant sur une enquête menée auprès d’environ 25 000 jeunes (1 000…
Italie: Une analogie avec l'Espagne
Cet article constitue l’un des éléments d’un dossier comparatif international sur le traitement médiatique de l’attentat survenu à la gare d’Atocha à Madrid en mars 2004. Centré sur l’Italie et basé sur l’étude d’un corpus des quatre principaux quotidiens, il analyse les orientations du discours développé par cette presse dans les jours qui ont suivi cet événement. Il montre, qu’après un moment de compassion devant les conséquences dramatiques de…
Comparing media coverage of online risks for children in southern European countries: Italy, Portugal and Spain
Children's risks associated with the Internet and online technologies have been given great emphasis in media discourses across Europe. Perceptions and representations of online risks seem to be socially and culturally shaped, being rather different from one country to another. This article provides a comparative analysis of the press coverage of online risks in three European countries: Italy, Portugal and Spain. Being southern and Latin countri…
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens: Nouveaux résultats sur la vie privée, l'identité et les connexions sociales
L’utilisation des réseaux socionumériques est sans doute l’activité en ligne qui enregistre actuellement la croissance la plus rapide parmi les jeunes. Cet article présente de nouvelles conclusions pan-européennes du projet EU Kids Online sur la façon dont les enfants et les jeunes exploitent les possibilités des réseaux peer-to-peer offertes par les réseaux socionumériques, en se basant sur une enquête menée auprès d’environ 25 000 jeunes (1 000…
Utilisation des réseaux socionumériques par les jeunes européens
Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth.This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by SNSs, based on a survey of around 25,000 children (1000 children in each of 25 countries).In all, 59% of European 9-16 year olds who use the internet have their own social networking profile.Despi…
A interseção entre o "óbvio" e o "público catalisado" através do domínio de mediatização das culturas cívicas
Este artigo procura estudar o modo como as novas formas de interação e de envolvimento colocadas à disposição pelas tecnologias online interativas e participativas poderão ajudar a incentivar o empoderamento das práticas cívicas. Este trabalho enforma uma reflexão teórica sobre as potenciais áreas de interseção entre as audiências, enquanto "persona ficta" (Dayan, 2005) que emerge no papel de encenar a atenção face a uma performance externa, e o …
The intersection between "obvious" and "catalyzed public" through the mediating domain of civic cultures
The paper intends to analyze how the new forms of interaction and engagement allowed by the interactive and participative online technologies can help to foster empowering civic practices. It develops a theoretical reflection on the potential intersections areas between audiences, thought as the "persona ficta" (Dayan, 2005) that emerges in the role of enacting attention towards an external performance, and the public, thought as a collective ent…
I Can Share Politics But I Don't Discuss It: Everyday Practices of Political Talk on Facebook
The article explores how a group of young people in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom experience and manage informal political talk on Facebook. Based on 60 interviews with 14- to 25-year-olds with diverse interest and participation in politics, it understands political talk as a social achievement dependent on the situational definition, shaped by the perceived imagined audiences, shared expectations, and technological affordances. Results …
Bridging the Gap Between Micro and Macro Forms of Engagement: Three Emerging Trends in Research on Audience Participation
Stakeholder Discourses About Critical Literacies and Audience Participation
One Platform, a Thousand Worlds: On Twitter Irony in the Early Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
On 22 February 2020, 11 municipalities in Northern Italy became the first COVID-19 red zone of Europe. Two days later, when it became evident that the virus had been spreading in the country for weeks, Italy entered a "buffer zone," a temporal zone between normality and pandemic. The buffer zone lasted around 2 weeks and thrived with irony flowing on social media through memes, multimedia remixes, and jokes. As a collective ritual, irony allowed …
Bringing the Pandemic Home: Memes as Local Politics at Times of Global Crisis
It was late February 2020 when part of Northern Italy entered the first Covid-19 lockdown of the West. While stories of people fleeing quarantined areas soon made national headlines, the international news was suddenly reporting of coronavirus patients connected to Italy all around the world. Against this background, Italian social media started thriving with Covid-19 humour. On 9 March the lockdown turned nationwide and became one of the stricte…
Memetising the pandemic: Memes, covid-19 mundanity and political cultures
It was late February 2020 when part of Northern Italy entered the first Covid-19 lockdown of the West. While stories of people fleeing quarantined areas soon made national headlines, the international news was suddenly reporting of coronavirus patients connected to Italy all around the world. Against this background, Italian social media started thriving with Covid-19 humour. On 9 March the lockdown turned nationwide and became one of the stricte…
AI and newsmaking: An exploratory investigation of discourses and practices in Italian newsrooms
This article delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on Italian journalism, providing an in-depth examination of how AI technologies are being integrated into and reshaping the journalistic landscape. Through a qualitative study, which includes 10 qualitative interviews with journalists, digital editors, and IT managers from leading Italian media companies, this research investigates the attitudes, expectations, and …
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works)