Arianna Mainardi

Arianna Mainardi
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca | UNIMIB · Department of Sociology and Social Research

PhD

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In this chapter we investigate the relationship between girls and feminism as a lens for interpreting gendered relations of power and authority that define political participation within social movements in Italy. Starting from our dual position as researchers and activists, we focus on semi-structured interviews with girls working in occupied and...
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This entry offers an overview of those studies that have focused on the relationship between identity and gender, connecting gender to the issue of digital media in order to understand the current challenges of a gendered identity in an online environment. Against this background, the entry discusses the multifaceted perspectives of gender and femi...
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The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital medi...
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To conduct fruitful research into intimacy, young people and digital media, it is necessary to move beyond the reductive question of whether sex in media is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, avoiding a deterministic approach and focusing instead on media practices that are shaped by a drive to make sense of media and sexual cultures. We regard intimacy as a relatio...
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This article engages with the current debate on feminisms and digital media by looking at the tension between individualism and collective action. Drawing on an empirical research project involving girls, carried out in Italy and focusing on female processes of subjectivation in a postfeminist new media context, it will discuss constraints and oppo...
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In this article we aim to contribute to the study of social movement media cultures by paying specific attention to the practices through which collective actors build specific knowledge about media as workspaces. More precisely, we analyze how knowledge about media and tech companies as discriminatory workspaces is produced starting from the very...
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Sexuality and power in contemporary Italy: subjectivities between gender norms, agency and social transformation - Volume 23 Special Issue - Elena Zambelli, Arianna Mainardi, Andrea Hajek
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This article engages with the postfeminist debate on girls’ sexuality in contemporary Italy. The huge popularity among adolescents of social network sites (SNSs), which involve a vast mobilisation of personal images, has given rise to new concerns and a moralising gender panic about girls’ sexuality. Drawing on critical girls’ studies, and based on...
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This article aims to achieve a better understanding of how online networks contribute to the organization and the symbolic production of social movements using big data coming from social media platforms. It traces and compares online social and semantic networks that emerged on Twitter during two protest events organized by the feminist Italian mo...
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This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platforms and services in particular by students at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The data was obtained from a survey on media consumption habits and usage of new web technologies conducted by the university's Observatory on New Media, NuMediaBiOs. Researc...
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Il contributo si colloca nel punto di mancata intersezione tra due aree disciplinari tra loro scarsamente comunicanti: gli studi di genere e quelli dei fenomeni politici. Attraverso lo studio etnografico di due sezioni locali della Lega Nord, mostrerò come pratiche e culture di genere contribuiscano alla riproduzione di idelogia, identità collettiv...
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The relationship between gender and media is an important place in which to measure the production and the diffusion of stereotypes and power relations built on a gender basis. The increas- ing pervasiveness of digital technologies and the Internet requires a critical reflection about the role that these communication technologies have in building...
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Il nostro contributo osserva e indaga il rapporto tra le giovani ragazze e la politica. Partendo dalla riflessione di Tiqqun sulla jeune fille come dispositivo perfetto di una politica neoliberista che mira alla docilità dei soggetti, metteremo in discussione le possibilità per le ragazze di agire e pensare politicamente. Le giovani donne, infatti,...
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Gender has now ceased to influence Internet access and frequency of use, especially among youths. However, self-efficacy in digital skills, content production and Internet uses are still associated with gender. For that reason, this article uses data from a survey conducted in a university in Northern Italy to explore if male and female undergradua...

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