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Introduction
With a background in Law, Francesca Belotti holds a PhD in Political Languages and Communication from Sapienza University of Rome. Her research, carried out between Europe and Latin America, focuses on alternative media practices of grassroots organizations, ranging from Indigenous communities to feminist and climate movements. She also investigates everyday digital media usage practices by older and young people, with a focus on ICT-related sexist and ageist stereotypes.
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April 2016 - present
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Funded by CONICET, the research aims at exploring indigenous media in Argentina within the implementation of Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services approved in 2009.
March 2015 - September 2015
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Funded by AMIDILA–Erasmus Mundus Action 2, the project explored community media activities and assessed the implementation of the Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services in the Misiones Province.
January 2014 - December 2014
Position
- PhD
Description
- Project coordinated by Comunello, Francesca (LUMSA), Mulargia, Simone (Sapienza) and Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia (IN3-UOC). Analysis of the mobile phones' usage Italian elderly. Comparing results to those gathered in Europe, North and South America.
Education
December 2007 - May 2010
Field of study
- Ibero-American Law (Gender Equality in Spain into the European Perspective)
September 2004 - December 2007
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Publications (11)
Constitutional reforms in Ecuador and Bolivia and the subsequent laws on communications have opened up the media space to new social and political actors: public and community media. While the former tend to be associated with the state in form and with governments in substance, the latter are not clearly defined and occupy a place in the midst of...
The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters were regulated as private non-profit media, despite h...
In the context of an international research project on older people’s relations with and through mobile telephony, Italian participants spontaneously provided narrations on mobile phones that appeared to be structured around strong stereotypes. Respondents show a twofold representation of mobile phones either as a simple communication tool or as a...
Recent Latin American reforms in the field of communication reshape and strengthen the role and challenges of the popular, alternative and community media. This paper analyzes different experiences arising from the results of two pieces of research, one in Argentina and another one in Ecuador, both carried out through a qualitative methodology, nam...
Southern Mediterranean area, particularly the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has been facing social, economic, environmental and political challenges related to the water scarcity and quality. Within the European SWMED project, a socio-economic survey was conducted in Palestine and Tunisia, in order to explore the water conditions, and the so...
The Argentinian Law on Audiovisual Communication Services (LSCA) recognizes the right of community broadcasters-as private nonprofit media-to access a third of the radio spectrum, as well as public and commercial media. Nevertheless, the reform takes time to be implemented and we wanted to explore why starting from the experiences of those actors w...
Purpose
– The crisis of confidence in political institutions has become a phenomenon with uniform trends across Europe. Nevertheless, citizens still express interest in politics and are engaged in political and social activities. What are the issues that still motivate them to go to the polls and/or engage in non-institutional forms of political pa...
Older people’s attitude towards mobile communication constitutes a privileged perspective for analyzing domestication processes of digital technologies. By means of a qualitative case study conducted in Italy, we study older users’ motivations and usage practices. We focus on perceptions of mobile phones, adoption and domestication of mobile phones...
El presente trabajo busca identificar afinidades y disonancias entre el buen vivir, al que se dio prioridad juridica y politica en las recientes reformas constitucionales en Ecuador y Bolivia, y el bien comun, que en paralelo esta floreciendo en el debate publico italiano –y mas en general, europeo– a partir de algunas experiencias concretas de def...
