Alice Mattoni
Scuola Normale Superiore
Italy

Alice Mattoni is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. She has published widely in the fields of social movement studies and political participation studies, focusing in particular on the relationship between emergent forms of mobilization and participation in connection to the multi-layered media environments in which activists are embedded. Amongst other publications, she wrote the monograph Media Practices and Protest Politics. How Precarious Workers Mobilise (Ashgate, 2012) and she co-edited the following volumes: Spreading Protests. Social Movements in Times of Crisis (ECPR Press, 2014), Mediation and Protest Movements (Intellect, 2013), Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements (Emerald, 2013), and Alla Ricerca dell’Onda. Nuovi Conflitti nel Mondo dell’Istruzione Superiore (Franco Angeli, 2010). Her work on social movements, political participation and media practices appeared in several international (Social Movement Studies, Communication Theory, Information Communication & Society, Triple-C, Portal, Cultural Anthropology Online, Sociology Compass, Feminist Review, Working USA).