Rita Marchetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 307992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Marchetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Marchetti |
| SIGNATURE | MARCHETTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Perugia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5740-1962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Tangentopoli Effect: When Corruption and Media Collide, Igniting Media Populism in Italy
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…
Cities, states and the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities for transnational city networks
The growing role of cities in today’s globalized world is well known. As a result of their central position in many positive and negative global dynamics, cities are receiving more and more attention in various fields of study, including international relations (IR). In this context, COVID-19 was a turning point that once again demonstrated the international activism of cities, offering valid patterns of crisis response and management as an alter…
Politicizing corruption on social media
Although various studies have investigated the link between corruption and politicization, there is still a lack of comprehensive reflection in the literature on both this topic and the idea of politicization itself. Analyzing the politicization of an issue necessarily implies considering the public sphere and then the role of the media. Considering its penetration and its role as a news source for citizens, social media today is a particularly i…
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: A Social Media Perspective
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…
Incivility in Online Discussion: An Examination of Impolite and Intolerant Comments
Incivility in online political discussion represents one of the most widely debated issues among scholars. Much research focuses on the incivility disseminated by political elites on social media, paying less attention to the user incivility that spreads as a “bottom-up” reaction to politicians’ posts. To fill this gap, the article focuses on user comments on the Facebook pages of parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the Italian general elec…
Did Covid-19 change the political communication of polarizing leaders? The case of Salvini's campaigning before and after the pandemic
In recent years, political polarization saw a significant rise in many political systems. This revamped a scientific debate sparked decades ago, with different schools of thought debating on dynamics, factors, and causes of polarization itself. By looking at political elites’ polarizing strategy—one of the factors on which various theories seem to converge—this article tackles the question concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms o…
An Increasingly (In)visible Religion? The Italian Case
Scholars have for some years hypothesized a "new visibility" of religion, so that a relevant role in the publicization of religion is played by the media. However, while the public visibility of religion in the media has recently become a topic of great interest at the international level, in Italy, the literature on this topic is quite scarce. It is of particular interest in Italy due to the central role played by the Catholic Church, which, des…
Right-Wing Populism and Political Instrumentalization of Religion: The Italian Debate on Matteo Salvini’s Use of Religious Symbols on Facebook
The study investigates the online debate sparked by the political instrumentalization of religious symbols by right-wing populist leaders, taking as a case study the campaign communication of Matteo Salvini—leader of the Italian “Lega” party—in the run-up to the 2018 and 2019 general and European elections. Against the backdrop of theories on populism, religious publicization and politicization in a social media context, the research analyzes ove…
The strategic use of incivility in contemporary politics. The case of the 2018 Italian general election on Facebook
The study addresses central issues in contemporary politics in response to growing concern about the impoverishment of political discourse that has become increasingly uncivil. In particular it analhyzes citizens’ reactions to leaders’ uncivil posts on Facebook during the 2018 Italian General Election, by adopting a theoretical-operational model based on a dual approach (top down – bottom up) that examines the forms of adverse communication used …
La dimensione sociale dei disastri: La comunità di Norcia dopo il terremoto del 2016
The article try to understand how the community of the town of Norcia in Umbria reacted and activated processes of social and territorial resilience to try to mitigate, absorb and cope with the consequences of the earthquake of 2016. Because extreme events change communi-ties in a way not predictable and the consequences of their impact are different, based on the various responsiveness of individuals or social groups, the work has particularly d…
News Users on Facebook: Interaction Strategies on the Pages of El Paìs , la Repubblica , Le Monde , and The Guardian
The aim of this paper is to study journalistic production and how news users interact with it. More specifically, the approach adopted is an attempt to bridge the gap between the analysis of how news outlets disseminate their news on social media platforms, and that relating to the use of such news within social contexts. To achieve this twofold objective, the content published on Facebook, as well as the interactions of users of four newspapers …
Journalists at a crossroads: Are traditional norms and practices challenged by Twitter
This article aims to identify the hybridization that journalists have created to reconcile the pressures arising from the affirmation of the culture of participation and sharing of social media with the traditional norms and practices that are the basis of the journalistic identity. This study analyses the behavior of 1202 Italian journalists on Twitter between 1 January and 29 February 2016, focusing on the interpretation of the transparency nor…
Representations of Corruption in the British, French, and Italian Press: Audience Segmentation and the Lack of Unanimously Shared Indignation
As part of a larger European Union (EU)-funded project, this paper investigates the coverage of corruption and related topics in three European democracies: France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Based on Freedom House data, these countries are characterized by different levels of press freedom. A large corpus of newspaper articles (107,248 articles) from the period 2004 to 2013 were analyzed using dedicated software. We demonstrate that freedom …
Live tweeting a political debate: The case of the ‘Italia bene comune’
The practice of live tweeting while following a television programme is quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon. However, in Italy, commenting on a political debate via social media is a novelty. This article presents the first exemplary case study in an Italian context, the ‘Italia bene comune’ debate, hosted by SkyTg24 on 12 November 2012. This debate focused on elections to designate a candidate to lead the government from the centre-left coa…
Twitter and Television in a Hybrid Media System: The 2013 Italian election campaign
By analyzing all of the keywords and hashtags that became Trending Topics (TTs) in the Italian Twittersphere during both an electoral period and a non-electoral period, we evaluated what Italian Twitter users discussed. We found that topics about actors and issues in the entertainment field (e.g., singers, Hollywood stars and television stars) drive Italian discussions and that the political sphere is a secondary topic that elicits minor argument…
Journalists at a crossroads: Are traditional norms and practices challenged by Twitter
This article aims to identify the hybridization that journalists have created to reconcile the pressures arising from the affirmation of the culture of participation and sharing of social media with the traditional norms and practices that are the basis of the journalistic identity. This study analyses the behavior of 1202 Italian journalists on Twitter between 1 January and 29 February 2016, focusing on the interpretation of the transparency nor…
Representations of Corruption in the British, French, and Italian Press: Audience Segmentation and the Lack of Unanimously Shared Indignation
As part of a larger European Union (EU)-funded project, this paper investigates the coverage of corruption and related topics in three European democracies: France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Based on Freedom House data, these countries are characterized by different levels of press freedom. A large corpus of newspaper articles (107,248 articles) from the period 2004 to 2013 were analyzed using dedicated software. We demonstrate that freedom …
Twitter and Television in a Hybrid Media System: The 2013 Italian election campaign
By analyzing all of the keywords and hashtags that became Trending Topics (TTs) in the Italian Twittersphere during both an electoral period and a non-electoral period, we evaluated what Italian Twitter users discussed. We found that topics about actors and issues in the entertainment field (e.g., singers, Hollywood stars and television stars) drive Italian discussions and that the political sphere is a secondary topic that elicits minor argument…
News Users on Facebook: Interaction Strategies on the Pages of El Paìs , la Repubblica , Le Monde , and The Guardian
The aim of this paper is to study journalistic production and how news users interact with it. More specifically, the approach adopted is an attempt to bridge the gap between the analysis of how news outlets disseminate their news on social media platforms, and that relating to the use of such news within social contexts. To achieve this twofold objective, the content published on Facebook, as well as the interactions of users of four newspapers …
Live tweeting a political debate: The case of the ‘Italia bene comune’
The practice of live tweeting while following a television programme is quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon. However, in Italy, commenting on a political debate via social media is a novelty. This article presents the first exemplary case study in an Italian context, the ‘Italia bene comune’ debate, hosted by SkyTg24 on 12 November 2012. This debate focused on elections to designate a candidate to lead the government from the centre-left coa…
Politicizing corruption on social media
Although various studies have investigated the link between corruption and politicization, there is still a lack of comprehensive reflection in the literature on both this topic and the idea of politicization itself. Analyzing the politicization of an issue necessarily implies considering the public sphere and then the role of the media. Considering its penetration and its role as a news source for citizens, social media today is a particularly i…
Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal: A Social Media Perspective
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…
Incivility in Online Discussion: An Examination of Impolite and Intolerant Comments
Incivility in online political discussion represents one of the most widely debated issues among scholars. Much research focuses on the incivility disseminated by political elites on social media, paying less attention to the user incivility that spreads as a “bottom-up” reaction to politicians’ posts. To fill this gap, the article focuses on user comments on the Facebook pages of parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the Italian general elec…
An Increasingly (In)visible Religion? The Italian Case
Scholars have for some years hypothesized a "new visibility" of religion, so that a relevant role in the publicization of religion is played by the media. However, while the public visibility of religion in the media has recently become a topic of great interest at the international level, in Italy, the literature on this topic is quite scarce. It is of particular interest in Italy due to the central role played by the Catholic Church, which, des…
Live tweeting a political debate: The case of the ‘Italia bene comune’
The practice of live tweeting while following a television programme is quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon. However, in Italy, commenting on a political debate via social media is a novelty. This article presents the first exemplary case study in an Italian context, the ‘Italia bene comune’ debate, hosted by SkyTg24 on 12 November 2012. This debate focused on elections to designate a candidate to lead the government from the centre-left coa…
Twitter and Television in a Hybrid Media System: The 2013 Italian election campaign
By analyzing all of the keywords and hashtags that became Trending Topics (TTs) in the Italian Twittersphere during both an electoral period and a non-electoral period, we evaluated what Italian Twitter users discussed. We found that topics about actors and issues in the entertainment field (e.g., singers, Hollywood stars and television stars) drive Italian discussions and that the political sphere is a secondary topic that elicits minor argument…
Representations of Corruption in the British, French, and Italian Press: Audience Segmentation and the Lack of Unanimously Shared Indignation
As part of a larger European Union (EU)-funded project, this paper investigates the coverage of corruption and related topics in three European democracies: France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Based on Freedom House data, these countries are characterized by different levels of press freedom. A large corpus of newspaper articles (107,248 articles) from the period 2004 to 2013 were analyzed using dedicated software. We demonstrate that freedom …
Journalists at a crossroads: Are traditional norms and practices challenged by Twitter
This article aims to identify the hybridization that journalists have created to reconcile the pressures arising from the affirmation of the culture of participation and sharing of social media with the traditional norms and practices that are the basis of the journalistic identity. This study analyses the behavior of 1202 Italian journalists on Twitter between 1 January and 29 February 2016, focusing on the interpretation of the transparency nor…
News Users on Facebook: Interaction Strategies on the Pages of El Paìs , la Repubblica , Le Monde , and The Guardian
The aim of this paper is to study journalistic production and how news users interact with it. More specifically, the approach adopted is an attempt to bridge the gap between the analysis of how news outlets disseminate their news on social media platforms, and that relating to the use of such news within social contexts. To achieve this twofold objective, the content published on Facebook, as well as the interactions of users of four newspapers …
La dimensione sociale dei disastri: La comunità di Norcia dopo il terremoto del 2016
The article try to understand how the community of the town of Norcia in Umbria reacted and activated processes of social and territorial resilience to try to mitigate, absorb and cope with the consequences of the earthquake of 2016. Because extreme events change communi-ties in a way not predictable and the consequences of their impact are different, based on the various responsiveness of individuals or social groups, the work has particularly d…
The strategic use of incivility in contemporary politics. The case of the 2018 Italian general election on Facebook
The study addresses central issues in contemporary politics in response to growing concern about the impoverishment of political discourse that has become increasingly uncivil. In particular it analhyzes citizens’ reactions to leaders’ uncivil posts on Facebook during the 2018 Italian General Election, by adopting a theoretical-operational model based on a dual approach (top down – bottom up) that examines the forms of adverse communication used …
Right-Wing Populism and Political Instrumentalization of Religion: The Italian Debate on Matteo Salvini’s Use of Religious Symbols on Facebook
The study investigates the online debate sparked by the political instrumentalization of religious symbols by right-wing populist leaders, taking as a case study the campaign communication of Matteo Salvini—leader of the Italian “Lega” party—in the run-up to the 2018 and 2019 general and European elections. Against the backdrop of theories on populism, religious publicization and politicization in a social media context, the research analyzes ove…
Incivility in Online Discussion: An Examination of Impolite and Intolerant Comments
Incivility in online political discussion represents one of the most widely debated issues among scholars. Much research focuses on the incivility disseminated by political elites on social media, paying less attention to the user incivility that spreads as a “bottom-up” reaction to politicians’ posts. To fill this gap, the article focuses on user comments on the Facebook pages of parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the Italian general elec…
Did Covid-19 change the political communication of polarizing leaders? The case of Salvini's campaigning before and after the pandemic
In recent years, political polarization saw a significant rise in many political systems. This revamped a scientific debate sparked decades ago, with different schools of thought debating on dynamics, factors, and causes of polarization itself. By looking at political elites’ polarizing strategy—one of the factors on which various theories seem to converge—this article tackles the question concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms o…
An Increasingly (In)visible Religion? The Italian Case
Scholars have for some years hypothesized a "new visibility" of religion, so that a relevant role in the publicization of religion is played by the media. However, while the public visibility of religion in the media has recently become a topic of great interest at the international level, in Italy, the literature on this topic is quite scarce. It is of particular interest in Italy due to the central role played by the Catholic Church, which, des…
Politicizing corruption on social media
Although various studies have investigated the link between corruption and politicization, there is still a lack of comprehensive reflection in the literature on both this topic and the idea of politicization itself. Analyzing the politicization of an issue necessarily implies considering the public sphere and then the role of the media. Considering its penetration and its role as a news source for citizens, social media today is a particularly i…
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: A Social Media Perspective
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…
Cities, states and the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities for transnational city networks
The growing role of cities in today’s globalized world is well known. As a result of their central position in many positive and negative global dynamics, cities are receiving more and more attention in various fields of study, including international relations (IR). In this context, COVID-19 was a turning point that once again demonstrated the international activism of cities, offering valid patterns of crisis response and management as an alter…
The Tangentopoli Effect: When Corruption and Media Collide, Igniting Media Populism in Italy
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 (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social media (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Media Influence and Politics (6 works)