P Magaudda
Biographic Data
| ID | 34716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Magaudda |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Magaudda |
| SIGNATURE | MAGAUDDA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0830-8299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How does innovation arise in the bicycle sector? The users’ role and their betrayal in the case of the ‘gravel bike’
This paper examines the emergence of the ‘gravel bike’, a new and successful category of sports bicycles that gained prominence in the global cycling industry in the late 2010s, to advance the understanding of the role of users in the processes of sociotechnical innovation. The study traces the development of gravel cycling and the gravel bike within the framework of science and technology studies (STS), introducing the concept of ‘user betrayal’…
Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures
Theorizing failure in digital media. Four eclectic theses
This article focuses on the concept of 'failure' in relation to digital media, their development and appropriation in social contexts. In the first part, the article provides an overview of the category of failure for understanding digital media, addressing some of the most relevant contributions from several fields of study, including Science & Technology Studies (STS), History of Communication, Media Archaeology, and Post-Digital Art Aesthetics…
Communicating science through films
The Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico (International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film [IFSEF]) was a pioneering science-based public event held at the University of Padova from 1956 to 1975 in collaboration with the Venice International Film Festival. The IFSEF is treated as a case of a multiform space to question the permeable boundaries between hard scientific content and its aesthetic dimension, educational role…
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production
The process of developing of a participatory environmental monitoring network in Italy, unfolded between 2013 and 2020, is analysed in order to explore the dynamics of knowledge co-production involving collaboration between scientists and non-experts, in the present case constituted by a community of weather amateurs and practitioners. Based on a qualitative approach and 15 in-depth interviews with different stakeholders involved in the early dev…
Young People and the Smartphone
Retromedia-in-practice
The article aims at investigating the persistence and comeback of old media technologies (phenomena we define, in short, 'retromedia') by developing a distinctive theoretical approach named retromedia-in-practice and based on practice theory. Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a…
Infrastructures de la musique numérisée
Cet article analyse l'émergence de la technologie blockchain au sein de l'industrie de la musique, en prêtant attention aux récits et promesses à propos de son impact sur la circulation de musique enregistrée dans les réseaux numériques. La blockchain est en effet de plus en plus considérée comme la prochaine ' révolution ' qui affectera l'industrie musicale, la ' technologie disruptive ' qui bouleversera les règles qui régissent actuellement la …
A History of Digital Media
From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political, business, technical, social, and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and a…
Bottom-up Infrastructures
Frankenstein Goes to Holocaust
The Broken Boundaries between Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Sociology
The article introduces and comments upon the themes developed in the interview with the sociologist of science and technology Trevor Pinch in this issue of Cultural Sociology. The paper outlines the trajectory of his work since the late 1970s, from the birth of Science and Technology Studies (STS), until his current interest in the relationship between music, technologies, and society. The paper focuses on the growth of the field of STS, pointing…
Studying Culture Differently
This interview with Trevor Pinch, one of the most significant scholars in contemporary Science and Technology Studies (STS), reconstructs his career from the second half of the 1970s onwards, emphasizing the various points of contact and differences between social studies of science and technology, and several different approaches and authors in cultural sociology, cultural studies and culturalist approaches to the study of society. In doing so, …
When materiality ‘bites back’
Dematerialization of artefacts and material objects is a relevant issue in consumer studies, especially when we consider the ongoing changes regarding the consumption of cultural goods. This article adopts a theory-of-practice approach to analyse the consequences of dematerialization on the practices of digital music consumption. From an empirical point of view, the article is based on data collected during research into the appropriation of digi…
Processes of institutionalisation and ‘symbolic struggles’ in the ‘independent music’ field in Italy
Over the last fifteen years, independent rock music has become a wider field of cultural production and consumption in Italy. Indeed, while during the 1970s and 1990s the production of independent music was connected predominantly to political movements, alternative subcultures and the antagonistic attitude of the ‘centri sociali’, in the present decade, independent popular music has moved towards the centre of the national music industry and the…
Trusting, Complex, Quality Conscious or Unprotected
In the new European food policy following the BSE crisis, the consumer is called upon to take an active and responsible role. But in the political and organizational restructuring processes following the European Union policy, diverse constructions of the food consumer can be identified in different national contexts. The article analyses the discursive framings of the food consumer in four national settings: Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal, …
When materiality ‘bites back’
Dematerialization of artefacts and material objects is a relevant issue in consumer studies, especially when we consider the ongoing changes regarding the consumption of cultural goods. This article adopts a theory-of-practice approach to analyse the consequences of dematerialization on the practices of digital music consumption. From an empirical point of view, the article is based on data collected during research into the appropriation of digi…
Retromedia-in-practice
The article aims at investigating the persistence and comeback of old media technologies (phenomena we define, in short, 'retromedia') by developing a distinctive theoretical approach named retromedia-in-practice and based on practice theory. Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a…
The Broken Boundaries between Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Sociology
The article introduces and comments upon the themes developed in the interview with the sociologist of science and technology Trevor Pinch in this issue of Cultural Sociology. The paper outlines the trajectory of his work since the late 1970s, from the birth of Science and Technology Studies (STS), until his current interest in the relationship between music, technologies, and society. The paper focuses on the growth of the field of STS, pointing…
Trusting, Complex, Quality Conscious or Unprotected
In the new European food policy following the BSE crisis, the consumer is called upon to take an active and responsible role. But in the political and organizational restructuring processes following the European Union policy, diverse constructions of the food consumer can be identified in different national contexts. The article analyses the discursive framings of the food consumer in four national settings: Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal, …
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production
The process of developing of a participatory environmental monitoring network in Italy, unfolded between 2013 and 2020, is analysed in order to explore the dynamics of knowledge co-production involving collaboration between scientists and non-experts, in the present case constituted by a community of weather amateurs and practitioners. Based on a qualitative approach and 15 in-depth interviews with different stakeholders involved in the early dev…
Infrastructures de la musique numérisée
Cet article analyse l'émergence de la technologie blockchain au sein de l'industrie de la musique, en prêtant attention aux récits et promesses à propos de son impact sur la circulation de musique enregistrée dans les réseaux numériques. La blockchain est en effet de plus en plus considérée comme la prochaine ' révolution ' qui affectera l'industrie musicale, la ' technologie disruptive ' qui bouleversera les règles qui régissent actuellement la …
Trusting, Complex, Quality Conscious or Unprotected
In the new European food policy following the BSE crisis, the consumer is called upon to take an active and responsible role. But in the political and organizational restructuring processes following the European Union policy, diverse constructions of the food consumer can be identified in different national contexts. The article analyses the discursive framings of the food consumer in four national settings: Norway, Denmark, Italy and Portugal, …
Processes of institutionalisation and ‘symbolic struggles’ in the ‘independent music’ field in Italy
Over the last fifteen years, independent rock music has become a wider field of cultural production and consumption in Italy. Indeed, while during the 1970s and 1990s the production of independent music was connected predominantly to political movements, alternative subcultures and the antagonistic attitude of the ‘centri sociali’, in the present decade, independent popular music has moved towards the centre of the national music industry and the…
When materiality ‘bites back’
Dematerialization of artefacts and material objects is a relevant issue in consumer studies, especially when we consider the ongoing changes regarding the consumption of cultural goods. This article adopts a theory-of-practice approach to analyse the consequences of dematerialization on the practices of digital music consumption. From an empirical point of view, the article is based on data collected during research into the appropriation of digi…
The Broken Boundaries between Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Sociology
The article introduces and comments upon the themes developed in the interview with the sociologist of science and technology Trevor Pinch in this issue of Cultural Sociology. The paper outlines the trajectory of his work since the late 1970s, from the birth of Science and Technology Studies (STS), until his current interest in the relationship between music, technologies, and society. The paper focuses on the growth of the field of STS, pointing…
Studying Culture Differently
This interview with Trevor Pinch, one of the most significant scholars in contemporary Science and Technology Studies (STS), reconstructs his career from the second half of the 1970s onwards, emphasizing the various points of contact and differences between social studies of science and technology, and several different approaches and authors in cultural sociology, cultural studies and culturalist approaches to the study of society. In doing so, …
A History of Digital Media
From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political, business, technical, social, and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and a…
Bottom-up Infrastructures
Frankenstein Goes to Holocaust
Retromedia-in-practice
The article aims at investigating the persistence and comeback of old media technologies (phenomena we define, in short, 'retromedia') by developing a distinctive theoretical approach named retromedia-in-practice and based on practice theory. Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a…
Infrastructures de la musique numérisée
Cet article analyse l'émergence de la technologie blockchain au sein de l'industrie de la musique, en prêtant attention aux récits et promesses à propos de son impact sur la circulation de musique enregistrée dans les réseaux numériques. La blockchain est en effet de plus en plus considérée comme la prochaine ' révolution ' qui affectera l'industrie musicale, la ' technologie disruptive ' qui bouleversera les règles qui régissent actuellement la …
Young People and the Smartphone
Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures
Theorizing failure in digital media. Four eclectic theses
This article focuses on the concept of 'failure' in relation to digital media, their development and appropriation in social contexts. In the first part, the article provides an overview of the category of failure for understanding digital media, addressing some of the most relevant contributions from several fields of study, including Science & Technology Studies (STS), History of Communication, Media Archaeology, and Post-Digital Art Aesthetics…
Communicating science through films
The Rassegna Internazionale del film Scientifico-didattico (International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film [IFSEF]) was a pioneering science-based public event held at the University of Padova from 1956 to 1975 in collaboration with the Venice International Film Festival. The IFSEF is treated as a case of a multiform space to question the permeable boundaries between hard scientific content and its aesthetic dimension, educational role…
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production
The process of developing of a participatory environmental monitoring network in Italy, unfolded between 2013 and 2020, is analysed in order to explore the dynamics of knowledge co-production involving collaboration between scientists and non-experts, in the present case constituted by a community of weather amateurs and practitioners. Based on a qualitative approach and 15 in-depth interviews with different stakeholders involved in the early dev…
How does innovation arise in the bicycle sector? The users’ role and their betrayal in the case of the ‘gravel bike’
This paper examines the emergence of the ‘gravel bike’, a new and successful category of sports bicycles that gained prominence in the global cycling industry in the late 2010s, to advance the understanding of the role of users in the processes of sociotechnical innovation. The study traces the development of gravel cycling and the gravel bike within the framework of science and technology studies (STS), introducing the concept of ‘user betrayal’…
Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)