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Leopoldina Fortunati

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ID292365
NOMELeopoldina Fortunati
PRENOMESLeopoldina
SOBRENOMEFortunati
ASSINATURAFORTUNATI L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Udine
ORCID0000-0001-9691-6870
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS85
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES218
TOTAL COMO AUTOR80
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1998
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H9
  • The smartphone as AI’s launchpad

    Open Access•Pan, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2026

    In this Perspective paper, we put forward two theses. First, while the focus so far has been on how artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape work processes in large-scale organizations, it will first and foremost develop through the smartphone. The mobile AI marks the true beginning of AI’s everyday integration, where it already has intimate and constant presence in daily life. Just as smartphones once displaced feature phones and reshaped inter…

  • How scientists study innovations on the background of a systematic review in an emerging field of research

    Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Review of Communication•2026

    This study investigates the interdisciplinary approach scientists took to study Amazon’s Alexa in the initial phase of its diffusion, based on a systematic review of research spanning six years (2017–2022). We examined the scope and diversity of the first authors and their methodological strategies across 180 selected studies from fields like communication, information science, health, and engineering. The findings reveal a robust interdisciplina…

  • Making sense of the role of ChatGPT in education

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2025

    This article investigates the diffusion and adoption of ChatGPT among college students from a multinational convenience sample, informed by the scholarly literature on the diffusion and progressive appropriation of ChatGPT by students and teachers within the education sector and the strategies adopted by academic institutions. We applied a figurational approach to this study, offering two theses that try to understand the societal meaning of Chat…

  • Introduction

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Histories•2025•Referências: 6

    This special issue aims to illuminate women’s contributions throughout history by using gender as a critical lens in internet historiography and challenging the dominance of male-centered narratives. In the introduction, we contextualize the socio-cultural moment in which this issue was conceived and outline its dual focus. First, we reconstruct women’s contributions to the history of the Internet. Second, we examine gender identity and the role …

  • Mobile communication

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2025•Referências: 16

    In this paper, I propose to explore the relationship between women and the mobile phone through the lens of political economy critique and the Marxian theory of value, as revisited by feminist scholars. In the first part, I offer metatheoretical reflections on strategies to revitalize the theoretical framework of mobile communication studies. I analyze the limitations of how mobile (and digital) studies have, so far, framed the issue of gender. I…

  • Aging in the digital era

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Manuela Farinosi et al.•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2025•Referências: 2

    This paper examines how older adults in Italy engage with mobile phones. A study involving 344 older adults was conducted to explore ownership and usage patterns of the mobile phone compared to other major digital technologies, and to analyze the phone's specific subjective significance. The concept of structural dissonance is introduced to highlight the discrepancy between the mobile phone and digital technologies in general, typically designed …

  • Grooming an ideal chatbot by training the algorithm

    Open Access•Pan, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2025•Referências: 4

    Replika, a social chatbot advertised as a continually evolving AI companion, has sparked debates on its potential effects. To understand users’ attitudes and behavior, we conducted a digital ethnography on a pioneer online community related to Replika, through the lens of immaterial labor and AI imaginary. Our analysis revealed that Replika users invest a significant amount of intellectual and affective resources into the chatbot through algorith…

  • The Perturbing Mediatization of Voice-based Virtual Assistants

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2024

    This study examines the role of voice-based assistants (VBAs), specifically Alexa, in the mediatization paradigm framework. The authors hypothesize that emerging technologies such as chatbots and VBAs intensify the process of online meta-reintermediation of news. Three research questions were investigated through a questionnaire administered to 655 university students in the US and Italy: Do participants try to get news from Alexa? Are participan…

  • What do participants participate in? Insights from the community of Peccioli

    Manuela Farinosi, Adriano Cirulli et al.•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2024

    This research is part of a broader study investigating citizen participation in public decisions affecting the present and future of the community of Peccioli, a small village in Tuscany (Italy), through repeated surveys on a random sample of the citizens, and within participatory processes promoted by the local administration. The paper investigates how citizens who participate in one of these processes take part in political, associative and cu…

  • Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web. A roundtable at the SHOT 2023 conference

    Janet Abbate, Cassius Adair et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Histories•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

    The co-editors of this special issue—Janet Abbate, Autumn Edwards, Leopoldina Fortunati, along with Valérie Schafer, a co-editor of the journal—launched an open call for organizing a roundtable during the SHOT 2023 conference, in which they invited scholars to delve deeper into the multifaceted sources, approaches, and methodologies related to Gender in the history of the Internet and the Web. This edited transcription of the roundtable presents …

  • How Prepaid Billing in Italy Helped Shape the Global Diffusion of Mobile Phones

    Jane Vincent, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2024

    Why was Italy the first country to introduce prepaid mobile phone billing services in 1996? What was the key to its success that led seventy-five telecommunications operators to introduce prepaid billing by 1998 and accelerated the mass adoption of mobile phones around the world? This article examines why prepaid was successful in light of national policies and sociocultural shifts. Along with SMS, handhelds, GSM, and the digitization of mobile c…

  • Mobile sociality and the use of the network of personal technologies

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Federico De Luca et al.•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2023

    The article investigates how personal technologies interact with the sociality of young people in a context of long-distance mobility. We focussed on a group of individuals – expatriates and internal migrants – who are highly mobile, multilingual, multicultural, sometimes also multinational, highly educated, and who extensively use personal technologies to support their sociality. The long-distance mobility of these young adults has been discusse…

  • The origins of mobile communication research

    Open Access•Ruizhe Ling, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2023•Referências: 9

  • Futures in mobile communication research

    Open Access•Scott W Campbell, Adriana De Souza E Silva et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2023

    Mobile communication’s embedding throughout social life has generated new directions in research and theory to understand changes in how people engage with others, the physical environment, and media content. As an early home for mobile communication research, New Media & Society is well-positioned to host this special issue, including eight articles themed around Futures in Mobile Communication Research. Although diverse in research traditions, …

  • Mobile Payment in China

    Open Access•Weiming Ye, Weirong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2023•Citada por: 3•Referências: 20

    This study aims to analyse and clarify why mobile payments have been adopted in China at such a rapid pace. Unlike previous studies which focused on mobile payment functionality and the micro-level reasons for adoption, this study emphasized the macro-level and meso-level reasons with an emphasis on social relationships or guanxi to explain the widespread and rapid adoption in China of mobile payment. Initially mobile payment was widely dispersed…

  • Framing the Psycho-Social and Cultural Aspects of Human-Machine Communication

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2022

    In this introduction to the fourth volume of the journal Human-Machine Communication, we present and discuss the nine articles selected for inclusion. In this essay, we aim to frame some crucial psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects of this field of research. In particular, we situate the current scholarship from a historical perspective by (a) discussing humanity’s long walk with hybridity and otherness, at both the cultural and indi…

  • Gender and Human-Machine Communication

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2022

    In this introduction to the fifth volume of the journal Human-Machine Communication, we present and discuss the five articles focusing on gender and human-machine communication. In this essay, we will analyze the theme of gender, including how this notion has historically and politically been set up, and for what reasons. We will start by considering gender in in-person communication, then we will progress to consider what happens to gender when …

  • Do People Perceive Alexa as Gendered? A Cross-Cultural Study of People’s Perceptions, Expectations, and Desires of Alexa

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2022

    Mainly, the scholarly debate on Alexa has focused on sexist/anti-woman gender representations in the everyday life of many families, on a cluster of themes such as privacy, insecurity, and trust, and on the world of education and health. This paper takes another stance and explores via online survey methodology how university student respondents in two countries (the United States, n = 333; and Italy, n = 322) perceive Alexa’s image and gender, w…

  • Is Alexa female, male, or neutral? A cross-national and cross-gender comparison of perceptions of Alexa's gender and status as a communicator

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2022

  • The smartphone between the present and the future

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2022•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

  • How the social robot Sophia is mediated by a YouTube video

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2022•Referências: 8

    In robotics, a field of research still populated by prototypes, much of the research is made through videos and pictures of robots. We study how the highly human-like robot Sophia is perceived through a YouTube video. Often researchers take for granted in their experiments that people perceive humanoids as such. With this study we wanted to understand to what extent a convenience sample of university students perceive Sophia’s human-likeness; sec…

  • Moving Ahead With Human-Machine Communication

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards•ARTICLE•Human-Machine Communication•2021

    In this essay, we introduce the 10 articles comprising Volume 2 (2021) of Human-Machine Communication, each of which is innovative and offers a substantial contribution to the field of human-machine communication (HMC). As a collection, these articles move forward the HMC project by touching on four layers of important discourse: (1) updates to theoretical frameworks and paradigms, including Computers as Social Actors (CASA; Nass et al., 1996), (…

  • Journalism’s sharp end

    Open Access•John O'Sullivan, John O’sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•Observatorio (OBS•2021

    This conceptual paper focusses on two fronts forming a broad assault on journalism, extending from more autocratic settings to include liberal democracies, and leading to what is now widely perceived as a crisis in news. We analyze these two attacks by presenting a framework integrating their sources and causes. We argue that the first attack emanates from commercialized media, occurring at economic and normative level, and has created, at least …

  • Media Convergence

    Open Access•John O’sullivan, Leopoldina Fortunati•CHAPTER•Digital Roots•2021

    In this chapter we analyze the now pervasive appropriation of the concept of media convergence to encapsulate processes of digitalization in media. We interrogate this almost universally adopted notion, tracing its ramifications as delineated in cultural, technological, market, and policy terms, while also drawing attention to complementary and generally much less recognized processes of divergence. More fundamentally, we draw attention to the lo…

  • Exploring the Perceptions of Cognitive and Affective Capabilities of Four, Real, Physical Robots with a Decreasing Degree of Morphological Human Likeness

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2021•Citada por: 3•Referências: 20

    This paper describes an investigation of student perceptions of the cognitive and affective capabilities of four robots that have a decreasing degree of morphological human likeness. We showed and illustrated the robots (i.e., InMoov, Padbot, Joy Robot and Turtlebot) to 62 students. After showing the students each of these robots, and explaining their main features and capabilities, we administered a fill-in questionnaire to the students. Our mai…

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  • The Influence of the Internet on European Journalism

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Mauro Sarrica et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2009•Citada por: 35•Referências: 28

    This study investigates how European journalists evaluate the changes that have occurred in their profession since the Internet has been integrated in newsrooms. How do journalists perceive the features and innovations associated with the Internet? What are the principal changes in the profession? Do practitioners believe that the quality of journalism has been raised or lowered? To answer to these research questions, we carried out a survey acro…

  • Robotization and the domestic sphere

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2017•Citada por: 14•Referências: 14

    The aim of this article is to advance theoretically the debate on the interrelation between robotization and the domestic sphere. I adopt a critical approach to the political economy about the diffusion of machines in the domestic sphere (unexpected and not predicted by the classical theories of capital) and the automation of everyday life, including that of the human body. In the first part, I focus on why robotics has shifted from the industria…

  • Social Robots from a Human Perspective

    Open Access•Jane Vincent, Sakari Taipale et al.•BOOK•Social Robots from a Human…•2015•Citada por: 13

  • Introduction to the Special Issue “Beyond Industrial Robotics

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Antonella Esposito et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 1

    Industrial and domestic robotics provide fascinating and relevant perspective insights into current and possible trajectories for the development of contemporary societies. While industrial robotics has found its place since the 1960s, domestic robotics wherein humans interact with social robots is still an unsettled area. After reviewing data on the diffusion of social robots and on their use, the historical tradition from which social robots co…

  • Print and online newspapers as material artefacts

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism•2014•Citada por: 11•Referências: 7

    Traditional newspaper journalism is in a state of crisis and there have been several attempts to overcome this. Many discourses have reiterated the triumphal march of a digital revolution in newspaper journalism and anticipated the end of the print newspaper. This moment calls for an in-depth analysis of reader habits of news consumption and use in order to understand the audiences for journalistic output and their relationship with the journalis…

  • The advanced use of mobile phones in five E uropean countries

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2014•Citada por: 11•Referências: 28

    The paper explores the advanced users of mobile phones in I taly, F rance, G ermany, S pain and the UK ( EU 5 countries) and aims to clarify the social meaning of advanced use. The mobile phone is seen as a strategic tool of social labour, whose capabilities are exploited to a different extent in the five studied countries. The analysis is based on a cross‐national survey data collected in 2009 ( N = 7,255). First, the results show that there are…

  • Capturing methodological trends in mobile communication studies

    Sakari Taipale, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2013•Citada por: 9•Referências: 20

    This study investigates methodological trends in mobile communication studies. The articles published over the past 20 years in five journals (Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, and Information, Communication & Society) are analysed. The results show that the quantitative and qualitative studies have increased while theoretical accounts have remained few. The quantita…

  • The Future of the Press

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Mauro Sarrica•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2010•Citada por: 9•Referências: 8

    In Europe and the United States, the decline of newspapers started long before the advent of the Internet. However, the spread of the Internet has accelerated this decline. But is the future of newspapers really endangered? To answer this question, the authors propose that a reflection on the insights the sociotechnical system perspective, drawn from organizational studies, can offer for media research. The authors first analyze four of the main …

  • Is Body-to-Body Communication Still the Prototype

    Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 29

    Body-to-body communication has widely been accepted as the prototype for mediated communication. This article interrogates the assumption that there is a dividing line between body-to-body and mediated communication. It shows that body-to-body communication intermingles profoundly with forms of mediated communication, to the point that it becomes very difficult to tell them apart. Starting from this framework, it analyzes the great imitative capa…

  • The early stages of the integration of the internet in EU newsrooms

    Open Access•Mauro Sarrica, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2010•Citada por: 8•Referências: 4

    The current study explores the perceived integration of the internet inside European newsrooms. The authors carried out a survey with 239 journalists working for 40 of the most-read outlets in 11 European countries. The study shows that journalists consider the internet a useful tool mainly for practical functions, rather than to enhance the core values and functions of their profession. However, news production continues to be based on direct in…

  • Media Between Power and Empowerment

    Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2014•Citada por: 7•Referências: 35

    This article analyzes how media have been conceptualized sometimes in accordance with notions of power and other times with those of empowerment. It is time to overcome this inconsistency in explanations of the media–users relationship and look at in a more innovative way. After a brief introduction in which I present the issues regarding the relationship between media and power/empowerment and the related research questions, in the next section …

  • The New About News

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Mark Deuze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2013•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    This paper presents cross-national research on news readership diversification. We compare written news (print and free newspapers, online and mobile news services) audiences in the 5 most populous and industrialized European countries (Italy, France, Spain, the UK and Germany). Outlining a sociodemographic portrait of these different news users is important in order to understand the changes undergone inside the world of written news. We draw on…

  • Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2012•Citada por: 7•Referências: 4

    The purpose of this study is to investigate whether women's emotions associate differently with the mobile phone depending on the type of family in which they live. James A. Russell's circumplex model of affect which explores four main emotional dimensions, excitement, distress, depression and contentment, was applied. The article is based on the female sub-sample (N = 3,704) of nationally representative survey data collected from Italy, France, …

  • Mediatization of the Net and Internetization of the Mass Media

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Gazette (Leiden Netherlands•2005•Citada por: 6•Referências: 5

    To measure the impact of the internet on the traditional media, researchers usually begin by considering their presence and use online. The hypothesis of this article is that the most crucial measure of the impact of the internet on the classic media does not depend on the more-or-less forced invasion of the internet by the press, radio and television, but is to be sought in other processes. More exactly, it is to be found in the mediatization of…

  • Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone

    Alberta Contarello, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•Continuum•2007•Citada por: 5•Referências: 4

    One evening, you are sitting at home watching a repeat of a series produced in the late 1980s, with that particular atmosphere and the fashions of the day. One of the characters, let's say an execu

  • Enhancing classical methodological tools to foster participatory dimensions in local urban planning

    Open Access•Manuela Farinosi, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2019•Citada por: 4•Referências: 21

  • You need to show that you are not a robot

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2019•Citada por: 4•Referências: 3

    Given that today 60% of Internet traffic is generated by bots, ‘CAPTCHA’ (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) tests that are supposedly impossible to be done by robots have been introduced. What are the cognitive and emotional effects of these tests on Internet users? Does this request to demonstrate they are not a robot affect users’ identity as human beings? To answer these questions, we selected two grou…

  • ICTs and Immaterial Labor From a Feminist Perspective

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2011•Citada por: 4•Referências: 2

    In this article, I discuss an issue which lies at the core of today’s “political economy” of the domestic sphere. The issue in question is that human beings are pushed to “outsource” their emotions, information, communication, education, organization, and entertainment, while they are left with scarce new technological support with which to cope with the fatigue, stress, boredom, and complexity of housework. My question is “Why has technology whi…

  • Mobile Payment in China

    Open Access•Weiming Ye, Weirong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2023•Citada por: 3•Referências: 20

    This study aims to analyse and clarify why mobile payments have been adopted in China at such a rapid pace. Unlike previous studies which focused on mobile payment functionality and the micro-level reasons for adoption, this study emphasized the macro-level and meso-level reasons with an emphasis on social relationships or guanxi to explain the widespread and rapid adoption in China of mobile payment. Initially mobile payment was widely dispersed…

  • The smartphone between the present and the future

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2022•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

  • Exploring the Perceptions of Cognitive and Affective Capabilities of Four, Real, Physical Robots with a Decreasing Degree of Morphological Human Likeness

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2021•Citada por: 3•Referências: 20

    This paper describes an investigation of student perceptions of the cognitive and affective capabilities of four robots that have a decreasing degree of morphological human likeness. We showed and illustrated the robots (i.e., InMoov, Padbot, Joy Robot and Turtlebot) to 62 students. After showing the students each of these robots, and explaining their main features and capabilities, we administered a fill-in questionnaire to the students. Our mai…

  • Convergence crosscurrents

    Leopoldina Fortunati, John O'Sullivan et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 6

    In this Perspective paper we propose a rethink on how we should approach digital and analog news. Although there are literatures that continue to focus on the many and varied characteristics of digital and analog news, we should not consider these as separate, opposing entities. In fact, the intertwining between the digital and the analog of news makes it difficult, if not impossible, to define separately what they are, even if this often is the …

  • Social robots as cultural objects

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Mauro Sarrica et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 19

    We investigate youths' conceptualization of social robots. Informed by Schudson's theory of the potency of the cultural object, we conducted two studies. The first study centered on essays on social robots written by bachelor's and master's students. The second study centered on prototypes of social robots built by small groups comprised of same students. The essays and prototypes were content analyzed. The results confirm that social robots embo…

  • Multiple Communication Roles in Human–Robot Interactions in Public Space

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Filippo Cavallo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 15

  • Exploring and Conceptualizing Empowerment

    Vesna Dolničar, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2014•Citada por: 3•Referências: 19

    Even though the issue of empowerment has been widely discussed in debates across various research fields, public policy forums, and media, it is an ambiguous concept. This special issue focuses on empowerment and new media. The articles in this special issue, which advance innovative theoretical and methodological frameworks, focus on the theoretical grounding of the notion of empowerment; empirical research on structures and processes that shape…

  • Revêtir des technologies

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Marie-Christine Gamberini•ARTICLE•Réseaux•1998•Citada por: 3

    With the advent of synthetic fibres and increasingly sophisticated medical prostheses after W.W.II, the body, hitherto the expression of " naturalness " despite the use of countless devices, experienced its first intimate link with the artificial in the strict sense of the word. The subsequent introduction into what were or were perceived to be clothing accessories, of electronic devices and new communication technologies - of which the paradigm …

  • Nouvelles technologies et compétence des usagers

    Marina Chiaro, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•Réseaux•1999•Citada por: 3

    NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND USERS' SKILLS Marina Chiaro and Leopoldina Fortunati Based on a survey carried out in 1998 in Italy, this article considers the question of real use, by private individuals, of information and communication technologies. After an overview of the penetration of these technologies in households and an exploration of the relationship between the number of machines in the home and users' skills, the authors examine in detail whic…

  • The mobile phone

    Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2002

    The debate over the social use of the mobile phone has been enriched by a large amount of information and reflection as to how this instrument has modified interpersonal relations, changed roles in the family, re‐defined the limits of communicative possibilities, rewritten the present functioning of institutions such as hospitals and schools, as well as the modus operandi of criminal organizations, intensified work rhythms, rationalized the organ…

  • Perpetual Contact

    Open Access•Jukka-Pekka Puro, Amit M Schejter et al.•BOOK•Perpetual Contact•2002

    The spread of mobile communication, most obtrusively as cell phones but increasingly in other wireless devices, is affecting people's lives and relationships to a previously unthought-of extent. Mobile phones, which are fast becoming ubiquitous, affect either directly or indirectly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. They have transformed social practices and changed the way we do business, yet surprisingly little serious academi…

  • Mediating the Human Body

    ANNAMARIA POLI, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•BOOK•Mediating the Human Body•2003

    A survey carried out in October 2000 by a producer in the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)1 leads us straight to a group of GSM users. It tells us about their buying habits, their use of GSMs and short-message services (SMSs), and what they spend. But who are these young people? This is the first question that the sociologist asks. What social circles do they belong to; what is their school background, their daily social and family l…

  • Is Body-to-Body Communication Still the Prototype

    Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 29

    Body-to-body communication has widely been accepted as the prototype for mediated communication. This article interrogates the assumption that there is a dividing line between body-to-body and mediated communication. It shows that body-to-body communication intermingles profoundly with forms of mediated communication, to the point that it becomes very difficult to tell them apart. Starting from this framework, it analyzes the great imitative capa…

  • Mediatization of the Net and Internetization of the Mass Media

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Gazette (Leiden Netherlands•2005•Citada por: 6•Referências: 5

    To measure the impact of the internet on the traditional media, researchers usually begin by considering their presence and use online. The hypothesis of this article is that the most crucial measure of the impact of the internet on the classic media does not depend on the more-or-less forced invasion of the internet by the press, radio and television, but is to be sought in other processes. More exactly, it is to be found in the mediatization of…

  • User Design and the Democratization of the Mobile Phone

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•First Monday•2006

    When the mobile phone was first introduced into Italy, it was considered an arrogant and vulgar technology used only by those at the top of society. Today, however, the mobile phone is used across all Italian social classes and is considered highly fashionable. This transformation in perceptions of this technology — and, therefore, its uses — can usefully be understood as, simultaneously, the democratization of the mobile telephone. One of the mo…

  • Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone

    Alberta Contarello, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•Continuum•2007•Citada por: 5•Referências: 4

    One evening, you are sitting at home watching a repeat of a series produced in the late 1980s, with that particular atmosphere and the fashions of the day. One of the characters, let's say an execu

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Mobile Societies in Asia-Pacific

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Francis Lee et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2008•Citada por: 1•Referências: 2

  • The Influence of the Internet on European Journalism

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Mauro Sarrica et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2009•Citada por: 35•Referências: 28

    This study investigates how European journalists evaluate the changes that have occurred in their profession since the Internet has been integrated in newsrooms. How do journalists perceive the features and innovations associated with the Internet? What are the principal changes in the profession? Do practitioners believe that the quality of journalism has been raised or lowered? To answer to these research questions, we carried out a survey acro…

  • The Future of the Press

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Mauro Sarrica•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2010•Citada por: 9•Referências: 8

    In Europe and the United States, the decline of newspapers started long before the advent of the Internet. However, the spread of the Internet has accelerated this decline. But is the future of newspapers really endangered? To answer this question, the authors propose that a reflection on the insights the sociotechnical system perspective, drawn from organizational studies, can offer for media research. The authors first analyze four of the main …

  • The early stages of the integration of the internet in EU newsrooms

    Open Access•Mauro Sarrica, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2010•Citada por: 8•Referências: 4

    The current study explores the perceived integration of the internet inside European newsrooms. The authors carried out a survey with 239 journalists working for 40 of the most-read outlets in 11 European countries. The study shows that journalists consider the internet a useful tool mainly for practical functions, rather than to enhance the core values and functions of their profession. However, news production continues to be based on direct in…

  • Journalism without journalists

    Open Access•Mark Deuze, Leopoldina Fortunati•CHAPTER•News Online•2011

  • Broadband Society and Generational Changes

    Fausto Colombo, Leopoldina Fortunati•BOOK•Broadband Society and Generational…•2011

    Contents: Fausto Colombo/Leopoldina Fortunati: Introduction. Broadband, Media and Generational Approach: a New Starting Point? - Fausto Colombo: The Long Wave of Generations - Michael Corsten: Media as the Historical New for Young Generations - Piermarco Aroldi: Generational Belonging Between Media Audiences and ICT Users - Jukka Kortti: The Problem of Generation and Media History - Marriann Hardey: ICTs and Generations - Constantly Connected Soc…

  • ICTs and Immaterial Labor From a Feminist Perspective

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2011•Citada por: 4•Referências: 2

    In this article, I discuss an issue which lies at the core of today’s “political economy” of the domestic sphere. The issue in question is that human beings are pushed to “outsource” their emotions, information, communication, education, organization, and entertainment, while they are left with scarce new technological support with which to cope with the fatigue, stress, boredom, and complexity of housework. My question is “Why has technology whi…

  • Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2012•Citada por: 7•Referências: 4

    The purpose of this study is to investigate whether women's emotions associate differently with the mobile phone depending on the type of family in which they live. James A. Russell's circumplex model of affect which explores four main emotional dimensions, excitement, distress, depression and contentment, was applied. The article is based on the female sub-sample (N = 3,704) of nationally representative survey data collected from Italy, France, …

  • Introduction to the Focus ‘Knowledge Management in Contemporary Europe’

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Svend Erik Larsen et al.•ARTICLE•European Review•2012

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  • Introduction to the Special Section on Knowledge Management in Postmodern Society

    Leopoldina Fortunati, Svend Erik Larsen et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2012•Referências: 4

    This introductory essay contextualizes and meditates on the three articles—Bhattacharya, Day, and Waller—presented in this special section on “Knowledge Management in Postmodern Society.” In the process it reflects on following points: (1) the capacity the university had in the past to incorporate the irregular and its loss in the contemporary university, (2) the devaluation of humanities and social sciences because of the reduction of the narrat…

  • Organization of the social sphere and typology of the residential setting

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale•ARTICLE•Technology in Society•2012•Citada por: 3•Referências: 19

  • Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

    PL Law, Leopoldina Fortunati et al.•BOOK•Migration, Diaspora and…•2013

    Preface: Mediating a Restless World Daniel Miller. Introduction: Migrations and Diasporas: Making Their World Elsewhere Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra and Jane Vincent Theme 1: Conceptual Perspectives of Migrants in Post-Modern Societies 1. New Media, Migrations and Culture: From Multi to Interculture Giuseppe Mantovani 2. From English to New Englishes: Language Migration Towards New Paradigms Maria Bortoluzzi 3. Frame Setting of Contestabl…

  • A New Fashion

    Manuela Farinosi, Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•TEXTILE•2013

    The aim of this article is to explore the urban knitting movement, a worldwide phenomenon that tries to combine a domestic activity, street or folk art, the reshaping of do-it-yourself culture, and peaceful forms of urban guerrilla protest. The activists employ colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth to enhance, beautify, personalize, and gentrify abandoned public places. Furthermore, they use the Internet to share knowledge on techniques…

  • The diffusion and use of information and communication technologies and the city from 1996 to 2009

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Sakari Taipale•ARTICLE•First Monday•2013

    The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the diffusion and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are associated with the size of the place of residence where people live. The article explores how the relationship between ICTs and place of residence changed between 1996 and 2009. The study presents data from two consecutive telephone surveys collected from Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. Results …

  • The mobile phone between fashion and design

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2013•Referências: 2

    In this article first of all I want to look at the current debate on fashion and the mobile phone. After a brief outline of the question, I discuss the role of fashion and then of design, an interconnected theme that has never been satisfactorily addressed in this debate. Then I analyse briefly how social networks and applications have introduced the discourse surrounding fashion and information about fashion to this device. My conclusion is that…

  • The New About News

    Open Access•Leopoldina Fortunati, Mark Deuze et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2013•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    This paper presents cross-national research on news readership diversification. We compare written news (print and free newspapers, online and mobile news services) audiences in the 5 most populous and industrialized European countries (Italy, France, Spain, the UK and Germany). Outlining a sociodemographic portrait of these different news users is important in order to understand the changes undergone inside the world of written news. We draw on…

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