Stefania Milan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Milan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Milan |
| SIGNATURE | MILAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Open data meets data justice
Building on research from critical data studies and public administration, we present a conceptual framework called ‘open data justice’, and illustrate how this framework can be translated in practice by governments to promote justice in their open data initiatives
The value of crypto? Sociotechnical imaginaries on cryptocurrency in YouTube content
In less than two decades, cryptocurrency has transformed from being an object of interest for an obscure online community to becoming a digital asset of global appeal. By acknowledging the importance of fictional expectations in the creation of economic value, this study addresses the question: How is the value of crypto imagined? Through quantitative and qualitative coding of 1921 YouTube video transcripts, combined with Exploratory Factor Analy…
Afterword: From Number Politics to Infrastructure Politics
Data infrastructures are the scaffolding of the present. This afterword centres on this claim by broadening the question that animates the special issue - what does lived data politics look like? - to the question of 'where' it is taking place today. It extends the gaze to the systemic transformation subtending contemporary data production, which I term 'governance by data infrastructure.' This pervasive form of number politics represents the mos…
Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi
Reviewed by: Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi Stefania Milan (bio) Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy By Alessandra Renzi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Hacked Transmissions by critical media scholar Alessandra Renzi is a deep dive into the exciting journey of the pirate microtelevision movement known as Telestreet, active in Italy bet…
Enter the WhatsApper: Reinventing digital activism at the time of chat apps
This paper investigates how the appropriation of chat apps by social actors is redesigning digital activism and political participation today. To this end, we look at the case of #Unidos Contra o Golpe (United Against the Coup), a WhatsApp “private group” which emerged in 2016 in Florianópolis, Brazil, to oppose the controversial impeachment of the then-president Dilma Rousseff. We argue that a new type of political activist is emerging within an…
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions by David J. Hess
Reviewed by: Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions by David J. Hess Stefania Milan (bio) Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions. By David J. Hess. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 258. Hardcover $75. Undone Science takes a political sociological approach to science and technology, scientific expertise and knowledge, exploring the contentious nature of innovation…
Making (Sense of) Media Innovations
Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions
Playing with data and its consequences
The fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication alters how people participate as citizens on a daily basis. “Big data” has come to constitute a new terrain of engagement, which brings organized collective action, communicative practices and data infrastructure into a fruitful dialogue. While scholarship is progressively acknowledging the emergence of bottom-up data practices, to date no research has explored the influence of these pr…
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
Anonymous
Anonymous identifies an amorphous entity that has been active on the Internet and beyond from 2003 onward. It is a collective label, and a related set of symbols, adopted by several groups and individuals for a variety of goals, ranging from pranking to political activism. Three phases in the evolution of Anonymous can be identified, from prank‐oriented activities to explicitly political ones. Its tactics embrace a combination of disruptive actio…
Cloud Communities and the Materiality of the Digital
Is the internet free of geography and/or materiality? Can we rely (exclusively) on technology such as the blockchain to solve the socio-political problems of our society? This contribution takes a sociological perspective to reflect on the possibilities and the constraints of technology, exploring the materiality of the cloud and the challenges of tech-enabled self-governance
Apresentação | Foreword
Apresentação
The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness triggers new forms of civic engagement and political action that we term “data activism”. Data activism indicates the range of sociotechnical practices that interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication. Combining Science and Tech…
From social movements to cloud protesting: The evolution of collective identity
This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding collective action in the age of social media, focusing on the role of collective identity and the process of its making. It is grounded on an interactionist approach that considers organized collective action as a social construct with communicative action at its core [Melucci, A. 1996 Melucci, A. (1996). Challenging codes: Collective action in the information age. Cambridge, MA: Camb…
WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Exercise of Individuality: Protesting in the Cloud
When WikiLeaks released the Collateral Murder video in spring 2010, featuring a US army helicopter shooting Iraqi civilians, cyberactivism was not a hot topic in the mainstream media. However, thanks to the ability to leverage the potential of the Internet to influence political debate, WikiLeaks quickly imposed itself as a headline-grabbing organization. The mass media fell in love with WikiLeaks, not least because of its enigmatic nature, its o…
WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Exercise of Individuality
Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change
Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio
The Way is the Goal Interview with Maqui, Indymedia London / IMC-UK Network Activist
Indymedia UK was created in 1999; right after the first Independent Media Center was set up in Seattle in November that year to allow participants to the anti-WTO demonstrations to report from the streets. But it emerged from an earlier website, created by a group of activists to report from the occupation of the City of London in June 18, 1999. Since 1999, the website has kept growing, incorporating technological developments and responding to t…
Four steps to community media as a development tool
Community media represent a crucial input in development processes, playing an important role in democratisation, social struggles, and awareness raising. But they often face difficulties on the financial and legal levels due to the constraints created by national media laws. This paper shows the link between community communication and human development. It provides suggestions for development advocates and communities regarding advocacy for a p…
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
Four steps to community media as a development tool
Community media represent a crucial input in development processes, playing an important role in democratisation, social struggles, and awareness raising. But they often face difficulties on the financial and legal levels due to the constraints created by national media laws. This paper shows the link between community communication and human development. It provides suggestions for development advocates and communities regarding advocacy for a p…
The value of crypto? Sociotechnical imaginaries on cryptocurrency in YouTube content
In less than two decades, cryptocurrency has transformed from being an object of interest for an obscure online community to becoming a digital asset of global appeal. By acknowledging the importance of fictional expectations in the creation of economic value, this study addresses the question: How is the value of crypto imagined? Through quantitative and qualitative coding of 1921 YouTube video transcripts, combined with Exploratory Factor Analy…
Four steps to community media as a development tool
Community media represent a crucial input in development processes, playing an important role in democratisation, social struggles, and awareness raising. But they often face difficulties on the financial and legal levels due to the constraints created by national media laws. This paper shows the link between community communication and human development. It provides suggestions for development advocates and communities regarding advocacy for a p…
The Way is the Goal Interview with Maqui, Indymedia London / IMC-UK Network Activist
Indymedia UK was created in 1999; right after the first Independent Media Center was set up in Seattle in November that year to allow participants to the anti-WTO demonstrations to report from the streets. But it emerged from an earlier website, created by a group of activists to report from the occupation of the City of London in June 18, 1999. Since 1999, the website has kept growing, incorporating technological developments and responding to t…
WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Exercise of Individuality: Protesting in the Cloud
When WikiLeaks released the Collateral Murder video in spring 2010, featuring a US army helicopter shooting Iraqi civilians, cyberactivism was not a hot topic in the mainstream media. However, thanks to the ability to leverage the potential of the Internet to influence political debate, WikiLeaks quickly imposed itself as a headline-grabbing organization. The mass media fell in love with WikiLeaks, not least because of its enigmatic nature, its o…
WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Exercise of Individuality
Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change
Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio
From social movements to cloud protesting: The evolution of collective identity
This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding collective action in the age of social media, focusing on the role of collective identity and the process of its making. It is grounded on an interactionist approach that considers organized collective action as a social construct with communicative action at its core [Melucci, A. 1996 Melucci, A. (1996). Challenging codes: Collective action in the information age. Cambridge, MA: Camb…
The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness triggers new forms of civic engagement and political action that we term “data activism”. Data activism indicates the range of sociotechnical practices that interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication. Combining Science and Tech…
Apresentação | Foreword
Apresentação
Cloud Communities and the Materiality of the Digital
Is the internet free of geography and/or materiality? Can we rely (exclusively) on technology such as the blockchain to solve the socio-political problems of our society? This contribution takes a sociological perspective to reflect on the possibilities and the constraints of technology, exploring the materiality of the cloud and the challenges of tech-enabled self-governance
Making (Sense of) Media Innovations
Making Media: Production, Practices, and Professions
Playing with data and its consequences
The fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication alters how people participate as citizens on a daily basis. “Big data” has come to constitute a new terrain of engagement, which brings organized collective action, communicative practices and data infrastructure into a fruitful dialogue. While scholarship is progressively acknowledging the emergence of bottom-up data practices, to date no research has explored the influence of these pr…
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
Anonymous
Anonymous identifies an amorphous entity that has been active on the Internet and beyond from 2003 onward. It is a collective label, and a related set of symbols, adopted by several groups and individuals for a variety of goals, ranging from pranking to political activism. Three phases in the evolution of Anonymous can be identified, from prank‐oriented activities to explicitly political ones. Its tactics embrace a combination of disruptive actio…
Enter the WhatsApper: Reinventing digital activism at the time of chat apps
This paper investigates how the appropriation of chat apps by social actors is redesigning digital activism and political participation today. To this end, we look at the case of #Unidos Contra o Golpe (United Against the Coup), a WhatsApp “private group” which emerged in 2016 in Florianópolis, Brazil, to oppose the controversial impeachment of the then-president Dilma Rousseff. We argue that a new type of political activist is emerging within an…
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions by David J. Hess
Reviewed by: Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions by David J. Hess Stefania Milan (bio) Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions. By David J. Hess. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 258. Hardcover $75. Undone Science takes a political sociological approach to science and technology, scientific expertise and knowledge, exploring the contentious nature of innovation…
Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi
Reviewed by: Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi Stefania Milan (bio) Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy By Alessandra Renzi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Hacked Transmissions by critical media scholar Alessandra Renzi is a deep dive into the exciting journey of the pirate microtelevision movement known as Telestreet, active in Italy bet…
Afterword: From Number Politics to Infrastructure Politics
Data infrastructures are the scaffolding of the present. This afterword centres on this claim by broadening the question that animates the special issue - what does lived data politics look like? - to the question of 'where' it is taking place today. It extends the gaze to the systemic transformation subtending contemporary data production, which I term 'governance by data infrastructure.' This pervasive form of number politics represents the mos…
The value of crypto? Sociotechnical imaginaries on cryptocurrency in YouTube content
In less than two decades, cryptocurrency has transformed from being an object of interest for an obscure online community to becoming a digital asset of global appeal. By acknowledging the importance of fictional expectations in the creation of economic value, this study addresses the question: How is the value of crypto imagined? Through quantitative and qualitative coding of 1921 YouTube video transcripts, combined with Exploratory Factor Analy…
Open data meets data justice
Building on research from critical data studies and public administration, we present a conceptual framework called ‘open data justice’, and illustrate how this framework can be translated in practice by governments to promote justice in their open data initiatives
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Social movement (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social media (6 works)