Giovanni Boccia Artieri

Urbino "Carlo Bo", Communication Sciences, Faculty Member

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Boccia Artieri, Giovanni is PhD Full Professor of Sociology of Digital Media and Internet Studies, Dep. Communication Studies, Humanities and International Studies at the University Carlo Bo of Urbino (Italy) and vice-director of LaRiCa (Research Laboratoy in Advanced Communication).

Board member of AIS (Italian Association of Sociology) 2007-2013.
Editorial co-director of “MediaCultura” and “Mediologie” book series and Mediascapes Journal; member of the editorial board of the journal “Sociologia della Comunicazione”.

His research interests deal with the relationship between media, society and identity, languages and expressive forms of modernity at large. Current research projects include social television; big data/deep data research methodology; social network sites as a ground to observe and study emergent social phenomena.

Among his latest publications: Stati di connessione. Pubblici, cittadini e consumatori nella (Social) Network Society (Milano 2012), Productive publics and transmedia participation (2012), Facebook per genitori (Milano 2011), edited the italian translation of Henry Jenkins, Fan, blogger e videogamers. L'emergere delle culture partecipative nell'era digitale (Milano 2008).
Phone: +39 722305726
Address: via Saffi, 15
61029 Urbino (PU)

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Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms, and Ephemeral Content

by Giovanni Boccia Artieri and Elisabetta Zurovac

This special issue of Social Media + Society originates from the first AoIR Flashpoint Symposium,... more This special issue of Social Media + Society originates from the first AoIR Flashpoint Symposium, entitled “Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms and Ephemeral Content.” The aim of this conference was to investigate platform-driven changes and emerging practices of everyday-life content production occurring “below the radar” of internet research, or outside of previous standards of data visibility and accessibility on which most internet studies have been based over the last decade. In the current context, online spaces seem to be heading toward more circumscribed and unsteady forms of publicness, which contrast with the platform affordances upon which the theorization of networked publics has been built. Private groups, locked platforms, and ephemeral contents are some of the challenges that require the development of new perspectives and research tools capable of adapting to this shifting environment. In this introduction, we will illustrate how the theme of “below the radar” has evolved since the initial call thanks to the confrontation with the researchers who participated in the conference, and this special issue, and we will introduce the nine articles that make up the collection. These articles, which combine different research disciplines and techniques, provide a map of some of the most urgent theoretical, ethical, and methodological issues concerning the current transformations of the visibility regimes of online social action.

Visibility and Networked. Participation in TikTok. The Breonna Taylor Trend

by Giovanni Boccia Artieri and Valeria Donato

The Breonna Taylor case was another instance of police brutality that reached popularity during t... more The Breonna Taylor case was another instance of police brutality that reached popularity during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Even without mainstream media coverage, protesters were able to use social media to sensitize, engage and inform about the protest, to reach huge popularity worldwide. Often self-positioning as a space for leisure and creativity, TikTok was used by its audience as a platform to interact and perform new practices of political participation (Medina Serrano et al., 2020). The aim of this work is to understand how the use of sound can shape political expression through the platform, the actors involved in the process, and the audience’s perception. Following the theoretical framework tied to the dynamics of networked participation (Boccia Artieri, 2021) and the relationship between music, politics, and TikTok, we focused on searchability through sound as one of the main affordances of the platform. We qualitatively evaluated each piece of content produced from July 2020 to May 2022, collecting 1644 videos and the 5 highly ranked comments for each of them. The results suggest that TikTok can frame the political narrative and participation through its affordances, structure, and visibility logic

Research using hashtags: A meta-synthesis

Frontiers in Sociology

In the last 20 years, research using hashtags has grown considerably. The changes that occurred i... more In the last 20 years, research using hashtags has grown considerably. The changes that occurred in the digital environment have influenced their diffusion and development. Today, there is considerable research on hashtags, their use, and on hashtag activism. Likewise, there is a growing interest in their descriptive measures and their metrics. This article aimed to provide a review of this area of research and studies to outline the traits of hashtag research, which are yet nascent. To achieve this, we used a meta-study to produce a meta-synthesis capable of bringing out similarities and differences in research using hashtags and identifying spaces for the generation of new knowledge.

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