Francesca Belotti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 453471 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Francesca Belotti |
| PRENOMES | Francesca |
| SOBRENOME | Belotti |
| ASSINATURA | BELOTTI F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7335-2686 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Double standards of generative AI chatbots
The article addresses the age-based biases embedded in artificial intelligence systems (AI ageism) from a sociotechnical perspective. Building on studies about digital ageism and research on the sociocultural imprint of generative AI, we interviewed five popular generative AI chatbots as communicative partners to expose and question potential ageist and sexist stereotypes (namely, those surrounding digital users) embedded in/reproduced by these s…
Alternative Tourism and Platform Cooperativism
The article presents the results of an action research project carried out in Abruzzo, a region in southern Italy characterized by high socio-economic marginalization. Eight community-based cooperatives active in alternative tourism and local services participated in the co-design of a digital mock-up of a platform that reflects their values and practices. The experience is analyzed as a form of resistance to the “hit-and-run” tourism promoted by…
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide, which took place in Italy in November 2023, raised high media attention. Our research accounts for how it was covered by the national online press, and whether and how news reporting narratives differed from those about previous feminicides. Driven by both literature on the news framing of gender-based violence and linguistic studies on communicative functions of implicit strategies, we analyzed the headlines and s…
Pueblos indígenas y territorios mediáticos
Review of: Pueblos indígenas y territorios mediáticos: Estudios sobre comunicación indígena en Argentina , L. Lizondo and M. Doyle (eds) (2023) Bogotá: Friedrich–Ebert–Stiftung (FES), 233 pp., ISBN 978-9-58867-770-5, p/bk, free book
Towards ‘romantic media ideologies’
The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur on digital media (i.e., ‘digital dating abuse,’ DDA), such as snooping around, controlling behaviors, and aggravated sexting. It contributes to the strand of studies on DDA and those on the mutual shaping relationship between technology and society by focusing on the interplay between social media usage practices and dating practices among teenagers …
Youth Activism for Climate on and Beyond Social media
The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth and digital activism with a generational, situated approach, we account for how both the climate struggle and social media are appropriated by FFF-activists as part of …
Youngsplaining’ and moralistic judgements
In this paper, we explore ageist depictions of both young and older people as they emerge from discourses addressing ‘other people's’ digital media usage practices. We carried out eight focus groups (four with teenagers, four with people aged 65 or older) in two southern European cities (Rome and Barcelona). By negotiating the affordances and constraints of (digital) tools and platforms, people develop their own usage norms and strategies, which …
Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpa…
The In(ter)dependencies of Mobile Online and Offline Spaces
Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are negotiated across these spaces, while at the same time they are bound by the respective logics and limitations, leading t…
I do it my way”
This article analyzes the idioms of practice and media ideologies of adolescents and older adults regarding mobile digital media usage, and how they are negotiated within and between age cohorts. We formed aged-based focus groups in Rome and Barcelona (four groups of 16- to 19-year-olds and four of 65- to 85-year-olds). The comparison provides new insights on older individuals’ communication practices, often overshadowed by the focus on youth. Pa…
Feminicidio and #NiUna Menos
This article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by women's movements. Data analysis diachronically shows to what extent and in what terms conversations on …
Are the indigenous media community media? Experiences of native peoples’ media practices in Argentina
The study focuses on indigenous radio practices in Argentina under the implementation of the 2009 Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services, currently undergoing reform. This pioneering law recognised indigenous broadcasters, thereby satisfying the call of indigenous organisations, during the legislative process, for their right to ‘communication with identity’ to be included. Nevertheless, we believe that the application of the law has be…
Los medios indígenas en Argentina
La Ley 26522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual de Argentina (2009) reconoce los pueblos originarios como personas de derecho público no estatal habilitadas para prestar servicios de comunicación a través de sus propios medios. Este logro se debe a las reivindicaciones de comunidades y organizaciones indígenas que, durante la discusión de la ley, empujaron la inclusión de su ‘derecho a la comunicación con identidad’. De hecho, solo autorrep…
Between Public and Private Media
Constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the subsequent laws on communications have opened up the media space to new social and political actors: public and community media. While the former tend to be associated with the state in form and with governments in substance, the latter are not clearly defined and occupy a place in the midst of the hegemonic struggle between the public and private sectors to enable citizens to actively interve…
The communal’ in school and indigenous radio
The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters were regulated as private non-profit media, despite having specific objectives, programming, organizational logic and economic conditions. Conversely, sc…
Women, youth and everything else
In the context of an international research project on older people’s relations with and through mobile telephony, Italian participants spontaneously provided narrations on mobile phones that appeared to be structured around strong stereotypes. Respondents show a twofold representation of mobile phones either as a simple communication tool or as a ‘hi-tech’ device, which generates multifaceted stereotypes. More specifically, when the mobile phone…
La comunicación comunitaria en Argentina frente a la Ley 26.522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual
The Argentinian Law on Audiovisual Communication Services (LSCA) recognizes the right of community broadcasters—as private nonprofit media—to access a third of the radio spectrum, as well as public and commercial media. Nevertheless, the reform takes time to be implemented and we wanted to explore why starting from the experiences of those actors who carry out community communication activities, according to the hypothesis that the public vs priv…
Community media as exercise of communicative citizenship
Recent Latin American reforms in the field of communication reshape and strengthen the role and challenges of the popular, alternative and community media. This paper analyzes different experiences arising from the results of two pieces of research, one in Argentina and another one in Ecuador, both carried out through a qualitative methodology, namely in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework mainly draws upon the grounded tradition of Latin…
The hydropolitical challenges of domestic water conservation. Palestine and Tunisia case studies
Southern Mediterranean area, particularly the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has been facing social, economic, environmental and political challenges related to the water scarcity and quality. Within the European SWMED project, a socio-economic survey was conducted in Palestine and Tunisia, in order to explore the water conditions, and the social and economic situations of local families. The article illustrates the research design and impl…
Political participation and commons
Purpose – The crisis of confidence in political institutions has become a phenomenon with uniform trends across Europe. Nevertheless, citizens still express interest in politics and are engaged in political and social activities. What are the issues that still motivate them to go to the polls and/or engage in non-institutional forms of political participation? The case study of the Italian referendum in favour of the “Water Common Good” (June 201…
El lugar de la violencia
El tema de la violencia y, más específicamente, la violencia ejercida por las pandillas \njuveniles es ahora dominante en el debate académico, mediático y político contemporáneo; \nsin embargo, se desarrolla sustancialmente en términos sensacionalistas que \nproponen visiones erróneamente maniqueas del fenómeno y construyen marcos simplistas \ncon respecto a la complejidad de las dinámicas y los factores que lo organizan. El lugar \nde la violenc…
Entre el bien común y el buen vivir. Afinidades a distancia
El presente trabajo busca identificar afinidades y disonancias entre el buen vivir, al que se dio prioridad jurídica y política en las recientes reformas constitucionales en Ecuador y Bolivia, y el bien común, que en paralelo está floreciendo en el debate público italiano -y más en general, europeo- a partir de algunas experiencias concretas de defensa y reapropiación de los recursos llamados "comunes". Tal perspectiva comparativa ha llevado a id…
Feminicidio and #NiUna Menos
This article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by women's movements. Data analysis diachronically shows to what extent and in what terms conversations on …
Entre el bien común y el buen vivir. Afinidades a distancia
El presente trabajo busca identificar afinidades y disonancias entre el buen vivir, al que se dio prioridad jurídica y política en las recientes reformas constitucionales en Ecuador y Bolivia, y el bien común, que en paralelo está floreciendo en el debate público italiano -y más en general, europeo- a partir de algunas experiencias concretas de defensa y reapropiación de los recursos llamados "comunes". Tal perspectiva comparativa ha llevado a id…
I do it my way”
This article analyzes the idioms of practice and media ideologies of adolescents and older adults regarding mobile digital media usage, and how they are negotiated within and between age cohorts. We formed aged-based focus groups in Rome and Barcelona (four groups of 16- to 19-year-olds and four of 65- to 85-year-olds). The comparison provides new insights on older individuals’ communication practices, often overshadowed by the focus on youth. Pa…
Youth Activism for Climate on and Beyond Social media
The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth and digital activism with a generational, situated approach, we account for how both the climate struggle and social media are appropriated by FFF-activists as part of …
Are the indigenous media community media? Experiences of native peoples’ media practices in Argentina
The study focuses on indigenous radio practices in Argentina under the implementation of the 2009 Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services, currently undergoing reform. This pioneering law recognised indigenous broadcasters, thereby satisfying the call of indigenous organisations, during the legislative process, for their right to ‘communication with identity’ to be included. Nevertheless, we believe that the application of the law has be…
Women, youth and everything else
In the context of an international research project on older people’s relations with and through mobile telephony, Italian participants spontaneously provided narrations on mobile phones that appeared to be structured around strong stereotypes. Respondents show a twofold representation of mobile phones either as a simple communication tool or as a ‘hi-tech’ device, which generates multifaceted stereotypes. More specifically, when the mobile phone…
Youngsplaining’ and moralistic judgements
In this paper, we explore ageist depictions of both young and older people as they emerge from discourses addressing ‘other people's’ digital media usage practices. We carried out eight focus groups (four with teenagers, four with people aged 65 or older) in two southern European cities (Rome and Barcelona). By negotiating the affordances and constraints of (digital) tools and platforms, people develop their own usage norms and strategies, which …
Los medios indígenas en Argentina
La Ley 26522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual de Argentina (2009) reconoce los pueblos originarios como personas de derecho público no estatal habilitadas para prestar servicios de comunicación a través de sus propios medios. Este logro se debe a las reivindicaciones de comunidades y organizaciones indígenas que, durante la discusión de la ley, empujaron la inclusión de su ‘derecho a la comunicación con identidad’. De hecho, solo autorrep…
Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpa…
Between Public and Private Media
Constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the subsequent laws on communications have opened up the media space to new social and political actors: public and community media. While the former tend to be associated with the state in form and with governments in substance, the latter are not clearly defined and occupy a place in the midst of the hegemonic struggle between the public and private sectors to enable citizens to actively interve…
The communal’ in school and indigenous radio
The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters were regulated as private non-profit media, despite having specific objectives, programming, organizational logic and economic conditions. Conversely, sc…
La comunicación comunitaria en Argentina frente a la Ley 26.522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual
The Argentinian Law on Audiovisual Communication Services (LSCA) recognizes the right of community broadcasters—as private nonprofit media—to access a third of the radio spectrum, as well as public and commercial media. Nevertheless, the reform takes time to be implemented and we wanted to explore why starting from the experiences of those actors who carry out community communication activities, according to the hypothesis that the public vs priv…
Community media as exercise of communicative citizenship
Recent Latin American reforms in the field of communication reshape and strengthen the role and challenges of the popular, alternative and community media. This paper analyzes different experiences arising from the results of two pieces of research, one in Argentina and another one in Ecuador, both carried out through a qualitative methodology, namely in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework mainly draws upon the grounded tradition of Latin…
Political participation and commons
Purpose – The crisis of confidence in political institutions has become a phenomenon with uniform trends across Europe. Nevertheless, citizens still express interest in politics and are engaged in political and social activities. What are the issues that still motivate them to go to the polls and/or engage in non-institutional forms of political participation? The case study of the Italian referendum in favour of the “Water Common Good” (June 201…
El lugar de la violencia
El tema de la violencia y, más específicamente, la violencia ejercida por las pandillas \njuveniles es ahora dominante en el debate académico, mediático y político contemporáneo; \nsin embargo, se desarrolla sustancialmente en términos sensacionalistas que \nproponen visiones erróneamente maniqueas del fenómeno y construyen marcos simplistas \ncon respecto a la complejidad de las dinámicas y los factores que lo organizan. El lugar \nde la violenc…
Entre el bien común y el buen vivir. Afinidades a distancia
El presente trabajo busca identificar afinidades y disonancias entre el buen vivir, al que se dio prioridad jurídica y política en las recientes reformas constitucionales en Ecuador y Bolivia, y el bien común, que en paralelo está floreciendo en el debate público italiano -y más en general, europeo- a partir de algunas experiencias concretas de defensa y reapropiación de los recursos llamados "comunes". Tal perspectiva comparativa ha llevado a id…
Political participation and commons
Purpose – The crisis of confidence in political institutions has become a phenomenon with uniform trends across Europe. Nevertheless, citizens still express interest in politics and are engaged in political and social activities. What are the issues that still motivate them to go to the polls and/or engage in non-institutional forms of political participation? The case study of the Italian referendum in favour of the “Water Common Good” (June 201…
La comunicación comunitaria en Argentina frente a la Ley 26.522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual
The Argentinian Law on Audiovisual Communication Services (LSCA) recognizes the right of community broadcasters—as private nonprofit media—to access a third of the radio spectrum, as well as public and commercial media. Nevertheless, the reform takes time to be implemented and we wanted to explore why starting from the experiences of those actors who carry out community communication activities, according to the hypothesis that the public vs priv…
Community media as exercise of communicative citizenship
Recent Latin American reforms in the field of communication reshape and strengthen the role and challenges of the popular, alternative and community media. This paper analyzes different experiences arising from the results of two pieces of research, one in Argentina and another one in Ecuador, both carried out through a qualitative methodology, namely in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework mainly draws upon the grounded tradition of Latin…
The hydropolitical challenges of domestic water conservation. Palestine and Tunisia case studies
Southern Mediterranean area, particularly the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has been facing social, economic, environmental and political challenges related to the water scarcity and quality. Within the European SWMED project, a socio-economic survey was conducted in Palestine and Tunisia, in order to explore the water conditions, and the social and economic situations of local families. The article illustrates the research design and impl…
The communal’ in school and indigenous radio
The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters were regulated as private non-profit media, despite having specific objectives, programming, organizational logic and economic conditions. Conversely, sc…
Women, youth and everything else
In the context of an international research project on older people’s relations with and through mobile telephony, Italian participants spontaneously provided narrations on mobile phones that appeared to be structured around strong stereotypes. Respondents show a twofold representation of mobile phones either as a simple communication tool or as a ‘hi-tech’ device, which generates multifaceted stereotypes. More specifically, when the mobile phone…
Los medios indígenas en Argentina
La Ley 26522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual de Argentina (2009) reconoce los pueblos originarios como personas de derecho público no estatal habilitadas para prestar servicios de comunicación a través de sus propios medios. Este logro se debe a las reivindicaciones de comunidades y organizaciones indígenas que, durante la discusión de la ley, empujaron la inclusión de su ‘derecho a la comunicación con identidad’. De hecho, solo autorrep…
Between Public and Private Media
Constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the subsequent laws on communications have opened up the media space to new social and political actors: public and community media. While the former tend to be associated with the state in form and with governments in substance, the latter are not clearly defined and occupy a place in the midst of the hegemonic struggle between the public and private sectors to enable citizens to actively interve…
I do it my way”
This article analyzes the idioms of practice and media ideologies of adolescents and older adults regarding mobile digital media usage, and how they are negotiated within and between age cohorts. We formed aged-based focus groups in Rome and Barcelona (four groups of 16- to 19-year-olds and four of 65- to 85-year-olds). The comparison provides new insights on older individuals’ communication practices, often overshadowed by the focus on youth. Pa…
Feminicidio and #NiUna Menos
This article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by women's movements. Data analysis diachronically shows to what extent and in what terms conversations on …
Are the indigenous media community media? Experiences of native peoples’ media practices in Argentina
The study focuses on indigenous radio practices in Argentina under the implementation of the 2009 Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services, currently undergoing reform. This pioneering law recognised indigenous broadcasters, thereby satisfying the call of indigenous organisations, during the legislative process, for their right to ‘communication with identity’ to be included. Nevertheless, we believe that the application of the law has be…
The In(ter)dependencies of Mobile Online and Offline Spaces
Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are negotiated across these spaces, while at the same time they are bound by the respective logics and limitations, leading t…
Towards ‘romantic media ideologies’
The article addresses the teenagers’ perception of those forms of teen dating violence that occur on digital media (i.e., ‘digital dating abuse,’ DDA), such as snooping around, controlling behaviors, and aggravated sexting. It contributes to the strand of studies on DDA and those on the mutual shaping relationship between technology and society by focusing on the interplay between social media usage practices and dating practices among teenagers …
Youth Activism for Climate on and Beyond Social media
The FridaysForFuture movement (FFF), launched by Greta Thumberg's school strikes in 2018, has led a new wave of climate activism worldwide. Young people are at the forefront, with social media serving both as mobilizing tools and expressive spaces. Drawing upon literature on youth and digital activism with a generational, situated approach, we account for how both the climate struggle and social media are appropriated by FFF-activists as part of …
Youngsplaining’ and moralistic judgements
In this paper, we explore ageist depictions of both young and older people as they emerge from discourses addressing ‘other people's’ digital media usage practices. We carried out eight focus groups (four with teenagers, four with people aged 65 or older) in two southern European cities (Rome and Barcelona). By negotiating the affordances and constraints of (digital) tools and platforms, people develop their own usage norms and strategies, which …
Indigenous Media Activism in Argentina
Exploring Indigenous activism through the lens of media practices, this book examines the Indigenous media that has emerged in Argentina since the introduction of legislation in 2009 intended to promote diversity and access in radio and television media production. Francesca Belotti provides insights into the political and cultural matrix, attitudes of resistance and empowerment, and the outward and inward direction of Indigenous activism by unpa…
Pueblos indígenas y territorios mediáticos
Review of: Pueblos indígenas y territorios mediáticos: Estudios sobre comunicación indígena en Argentina , L. Lizondo and M. Doyle (eds) (2023) Bogotá: Friedrich–Ebert–Stiftung (FES), 233 pp., ISBN 978-9-58867-770-5, p/bk, free book
Alternative Tourism and Platform Cooperativism
The article presents the results of an action research project carried out in Abruzzo, a region in southern Italy characterized by high socio-economic marginalization. Eight community-based cooperatives active in alternative tourism and local services participated in the co-design of a digital mock-up of a platform that reflects their values and practices. The experience is analyzed as a form of resistance to the “hit-and-run” tourism promoted by…
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide, which took place in Italy in November 2023, raised high media attention. Our research accounts for how it was covered by the national online press, and whether and how news reporting narratives differed from those about previous feminicides. Driven by both literature on the news framing of gender-based violence and linguistic studies on communicative functions of implicit strategies, we analyzed the headlines and s…
Double standards of generative AI chatbots
The article addresses the age-based biases embedded in artificial intelligence systems (AI ageism) from a sociotechnical perspective. Building on studies about digital ageism and research on the sociocultural imprint of generative AI, we interviewed five popular generative AI chatbots as communicative partners to expose and question potential ageist and sexist stereotypes (namely, those surrounding digital users) embedded in/reproduced by these s…
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Media and Digital Communication (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Media studies (5 obras) · Social Media and Politics (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)