Area di Ricerca
Ambiti di ricerca ad oggi attivi
media studies, media education, media literacy, sociology of youth, education sociology, media sociology, media and children
Progetti di ricerca degli ultimi 5 anni
COORDINATION OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Local coordinator of the EU HORIZON project SMOOTH-Educational Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities. Call: H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020, DG/Agency: REA. (2021-2023)
• Local coordinator of the EU Project eMerge. e-Media Education Education about Representations and Gender, (Programme ERASMUS+, Key Action 2). (2020-2022)
• Local coordinator of the EU project COMMIT-COMMunIcation campaign against exTremism and radicalisation. Call: ISFP-2018-AG-CT-CSEP (Programme: ISFP, DG/Agency: HOME). (2019-2021)
• Local coordinator of the EU project Gamepaddle. Empowerment of Socially Disadvantaged Young People through Videogame and Media Education (Programme Youth in Action). (2012-2014)
• Local coordinator of the EU project VSAV-Virtual Stages Against Violence (Programme: DAPHNE III) (2013-2015)
• Local coordinator of the international project Tween girls, Media, Consumption and Gender Identity (with the Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Prof. Chan Kara KaWah (2007-2008)
COORDINATION OF NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Local coordinator of the project A.C.T. Arte, cultura e territorio per il contrasto alla povertà educativa, funded by the Fondazione Impresa Sociale con i Bambini (2020-2023)
• Coordinator of the project Un animatore digitale in ogni scuola siciliana, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (2016-2018)
• Coordinator of the project Educare all'informazione, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (2019-2021)
• Coordinator of the Research-Action Project and In-service Training “Animatori digitali-Regione Sicilia” funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (2016-2017)
• Coordinator of the Monitoring, Assessment and Evaluation of the Project Giovani, Sport, Legalità, funded by the National
• Department of Youth and Social Work. Leading partner: UISP, Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti (2015-2017).
• Coordinator of the project "Giovani a rischio e Media Education. Un progetto di ricerca-azione nelle scuole siciliane", (funded by the University of Palermo). (2008-2010/2010-2012)
• Coordinator of the impact evaluation of the project “Comunità educante-Zisa Danisinni”, funded by Impresa Sociale con i Bambini (2020-2023)