Books

International Books

Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences (Sage, 2023)

This book guides you through designing and implementing an online experiment in social science research in a clear and straightforward manner.

At an approachable pace, it covers foundational principles of good experimental design before setting out best practice for how to design and conduct web experiments, taking into account the specific methodological challenges of working online with digital tools.

Key features:

• Offers practical advice for approaching every stage of the research process
• Breaks real-world examples into easy to follow steps
• Focuses on how to make good decisions and choose the right design for your research project

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Methods and Instruments in the Study of Meaning-Making (Springer, 2023)

Edited book with Sergio Salvatore and Terri Mannarini.

This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It focuses on the methodological and empirical aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to policymaking and to the understanding of social phenomena.

The volume showcases a top-down approach by including quantitative methods and/or automatized or semi-automatized procedures, and at the same time supports a hermeneutic, bottom-up, abductive approach, focused on the situated dynamics of meaning-making.

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Digital Social Research (Polity, 2019)

To analyse social and behavioral phenomena in our digitalized world, it’s necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital social research. This book presents an overview of the many techniques that are part of the fundamental toolbox of the digital social scientist.

Placing online methods within the wider tradition of social research methods, Giuseppe Veltri discusses the methodological principles and related frameworks that underlie each technique of digital research. This useful guide covers methodological issues such as different digital data types, sampling for big data, construct validity, and representativeness.

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Media and Social Representations of Otherness (Springer, 2020)

Edited book with Sergio Salvatore and Terri Mannarini.

This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies: immigration, Islam, and LGBT.

The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

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Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post) Crisis (Springer, 2019)

Edited book with Sergio Salvatore, Viviana Fini, Terri Mannarini e Jaan Valsiner.

This book investigates whether, how and where the cultural milieu of European societies has changed as a result of the socio-economics crisis. By analyzing the changes in cultural milieu and social identity, the book develops strategic and methodological guidelines for the design of post-crisis policies.

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy (Routledge, 2015)

Edited book with Andrea Mammone e Giap Parini.

Selected for the Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award 2017 by CHOICE magazine.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century. Featuring contributions from many leading scholars in the field, this Handbook is comprised of 28 chapters covering politics and economy, parties and new politics, regionalism and migrations, public memories, and transformations in contemporary Italian society.

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Italy Today, the Sick Man of Europe (Routledge, 2011)

Edited book with Andrea Mammone.

Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current ‘crisis’ of the country through an analysis of several different ‘dark shadows’ of contemporary Italian society.

“The scandals, speeches, sex, and partisan scheming of Italian political life have always grabbed media attention…” - Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University), Foreign Affairs

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Libri in Italiano

La sociologia cognitiva, concetti e metodi (Meltemi, 2021)

Negli ultimi anni è accaduto qualcosa di interessante alla ricerca sociologica contemporanea. Il dialogo tra sociologia, scienze cognitive e psicologia ha portato alla rivisitazione di alcuni assunti fondamentali nel campo del comportamento umano.

Questo volume invita la ricerca sociologica a riflettere su quali assunti e modelli poggia la cognizione umana. Il rinnovamento concettuale suggerito dalla sociologia cognitiva “embodied” permetterebbe alla ricerca una maggiore capacità esplicativa.

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La ricerca sociale digitale (Mondadori, 2021)

Per analizzare i fenomeni sociali e comportamentali nel nostro mondo digitalizzato è necessario comprendere le principali opportunità di ricerca e le sfide specifiche della ricerca sociale online e digitale.

Il volume discute i principi metodologici che sono alla base di ogni tecnica di ricerca digitale, affrontando questioni come i diversi tipi di dati digitali, il campionamento per i grandi dati, la validità dei costrutti e la rappresentatività.

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Scienza in vendita: Incertezza, interessi e valori nella politiche pubbliche (Egea, 2018)

Scritto con Cristiano Codagnone e Francesco Bogliacino.

Scienza in vendita analizza il rapporto tra decisioni politiche ed evidenza empirica nella definizione delle politiche pubbliche. È un libro che parla di narrazioni e di retoriche, cercando di decostruirne le retoriche e fornire strumenti per capire dove risieda la verità.

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Fuori dalla bolla, politica e vita quotidiana nell’era della post-verità (Mimesis, 2017)

Scritto con Giuseppe Di Caterino.

Dalla Brexit all’elezione di Trump, dal referendum costituzionale al dibattito politico quotidiano, le bolle informative della Rete stanno trasformando il processo politico e democratico. Ma quali sono le leve socio-psicologiche alla base di tali dinamiche? E cosa si può fare per scongiurare la regressione cui sembra condannata la nostra democrazia?

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Recensioni

• Francesco Cardinali - Mind, febbraio 2018 - “La forza creativa dei dati”
• Andrea Mammone - huffingtonpost.it, 11 dicembre 2017 - “Il lato falso e ingannevole dell’informazione”
• Leonardo Petrocelli - La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 15 settembre 2017
• Maurizio Mannoni - Tg3 Linea Notte (Rai Tre), 3 ottobre 2017
• Alessandro Zaccuri - Avvenire, 13 agosto 2017 - “La lingua del populismo”