Paolo Giardullo

University of Padua | UNIPD · Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Division of Sociology

The paper investigates the complex relationship between contentious politics and the production of scientific knowledge, particularly in the realm of environmental monitoring data practices. Our analysis focuses on the role of non-experts in the production of environmental data outside environmental public authori- ties or on the periphery of envir...

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) aim to promote more participatory and democratic energy production processes, supported by smart technologies, innovative financing, and national regulations and economics to fulfil energy transition. This paper explores RECs as socio-technical innovations, analyzing public discourse through media channels. The s...

This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book intersects topics connected to technoscientific innovation and specifically digital tr...

This chapter reviews concepts developed in different branches of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) debate in order to provide useful theoretical tools for the analysis of algorithmic technologies in healthcare. The theoretical reflection provided here deals precisely with analytical lenses and concepts produced within the STS debate about di...

This chapter introduces the main goal of the book “Reframing Algorithms”, which is to offer a comprehensive exploration of the encounters between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and a less-covered topic in the STS debate: the design and use of algorithmic technologies in healthcare. The debate about algorithmic technologies in healthcare tend...

The catalogue includes contributions from the participants in the artistic project Mal d'aria . The Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with the Iuav University of Venice, the University of Padua, the University of Verona and the artist Laura Pugno, winner of the Sustainable Art Prize 2022, realised the project focusing on sustainabi...

Gli orti urbani sono considerati validi strumenti per rigenerare gli spazi urbani e rispondere alle esigenze di pianificazione. La letteratura esistente sottolinea come promuovano un legame con la terra, salvaguardando alcune aree da un'eccessiva urbanizzazione, e forniscono spazi dove sviluppare forme di collaborazione. Que-sto studio esamina gli...

Description NEWSERA project aimed at demonstrating citizen science (CS) as the new paradigm for science communication (scicomm). For this, NEWSERA enrolled 39 CS projects as pilots to co-design, implement and validate communication strategies aimed at quadruple helix agents (citizens and society at large, academia, public sector and policymakers, i...

Since its first appearance, the concept of the Anthropocene has achieved remarkable success in terms of users and audiences, among both specialists and non-specialists alike. While not yet formalised in the geologic timescale, how has this notion spread so widely and quickly? Given the concept’s trajectories across different media spheres and over...

This chapter examines trends in the coverage and framing of the reporting of refused knowledge across Italian mainstream newspapers. Taking into consideration the media are relevant for the analysis of RKCs, firstly given RKC followers’ beliefs that media outlets are to be considered the ‘in-house organs’ of the scientific elites, and as such an in...

Media monitoring is one of the activities carried out in the research field of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST). This interdisciplinary research field investigates how science and technology can affect contemporary society and how society can affect science and technology. Monitoring the media discourse can be beneficial to und...

This editorial by the board of STS Italia (The Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology) introduces a Special Section of the Journal collecting a set of contributions to the IX STS Italia Conference, held in June 2023. The Special Section features an invited Lecture by Huub Dijstelbloem followed by a short commentary by Annalisa...

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Public participation in science and technology, is currently being encouraged in order to fulfil the calls for a more engaging, transparent, and ethical way of governing tech-noscientific innovation. Several institutional documents argue for the need to enrol non-scientists into research programs; funding schemes devoted to public engagement seem t...

The article aims to understand the process through which scientific experts gain and maintain remarkable media visibility. It has been analysed a corpus of 213,875 articles published by the eight most important Italian newspapers across the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. By exploring this process along the different phases of the management of...

NEWSERA Blueprints for citizen science communication (#citscicomm) with and for quadruple helix stakeholders (citizens and society at large, academic scientists, public sector and policymakers, industry and SMES) and science and data journalists is an instrument that can serve a general audience, including those who are planning to start a citizen...

NEWSERA aims to show the virtues of CS as an inclusive, broad and powerful science communication mechanism that increases trust in science communication and, in turn, in science overall, while opening up science and innovation to society, raising awareness and knowledge in science, and reducing the chances of incurring in fake news, by means of pro...

NEWSERA Blueprints for citizen science communication (#citscicomm) with and for quadruple helix stakeholders (citizens and society at large, academic scientists, public sector and policymakers, industry and SMES) and science and data journalists is an instrument that can serve a general audience, including those who are planning to start a citizen...

NEWSERA Blueprints for citizen science communication (#citscicomm) with and for quadruple helix stakeholders (citizens and society at large, academic scientists, public sector and policymakers, industry and SMES) and science and data journalists is an instrument that can serve a general audience, including those who are planning to start a citizen...

Citizen Science is believed to contribute significantly to the democratisation of science, engaging non-scientists in scientific research. Participatory approaches to science communication share the same interest through public participation and public engagement. In the attempt to connect these two debates both theoretically and empirically, we pr...

The efficiency of communication campaigns that seek to boost a circular economy, leaving behind the traditional linear economy model, and corresponding behavior change is uncertain, although significant resources are being invested by the European Union and other organizations and institutions around the world. This study aims to identify barriers...

The paper analyzes how free vax communities reframe health emergency during Covid-19 pandemic. We examined, through a digital ethnography on the main Italian free-vax online communities-Comilva, Corvelva and Movimento 3V-the public contestation of anti-Covid health policies by comparing their different styles of vaccine-related activism. Contesting...

La Citizen Science (CS) prevede la collaborazione tra non-scienziati e ricercatori professionisti, ingaggiati in vari modi per contribuire al processo di costruzione della conoscenza scientifica. Nel farlo la CS promette un aumento dell’alfabetizzazione scientifica e della fiducia nel metodo scientifico, finanche una democratizzazione dei processi...

Contemporarily, digital images are produced and shared ubiquitously. By taking stock of this phenomenon through the lens of the DEH, this chapter will consider such images and pictures as cultural products. It will illustrate that digital photographs offer an opportunity to study cultural practices and how people interact with nature and focus on h...

Drawing on a 12-month virtual ethnography on the main online spaces of three refused knowledge communities (RKCs) in Italy, this study aims at contributing to the debate on emerging forms of science- related populism from a two-fold perspective. First, we identify and describe the main features and the role played by an understudied figure who we l...

Citizen Science (CS) can help change the paradigm of science communication. To test this, 38 ongoing CS projects from Italy, Portugal and Spain have been selected by the H2020 NEWSERA project to act as pilots in the development of communication strategies, specifically targeting stakeholders in the quadruple helix. The projects, together with stake...

This contribution develops from the panel titled "Responsible and inclusive citizen science: comparing initiatives and assessing impacts" organized for the VIII STS Italia Conference. We conceived our panel as a place to gather experiences and perspectives about the study and assessment of inclusiveness, effectiveness, and impact of Citizen science...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has emerged as one of the most dramatic health crises of recent decades. This paper treats mainstream news about the current pandemic as a valuable entry point for analyzing the relationship between science and politics in the public sphere, where the outbreak must be both understood and confronted through appropriate public...

In health and social care sector algorithms-the coded instructions through which data are filtered, sorted and processed-have recently attracted the attention of scholars and policy makers (Ruckenstein and Schüll, 2017). The emphasis on the role of algorithms in improving the efficiency of care processes has been followed by an increased interest i...

The importance of expectations for the future is well recognised within the social sciences. Future scenarios as well as expectations are relevant components of emerging technoscientific innovations to be investigated. The investigation of expectations has been translated into a useful perspective for the sociological gaze seeking insights about in...

The analysis I bring to the present symposium about contamination of practice theories concentrates on potential reconfiguration of domestic waste management as social practice through the installation of Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs). Being them designed to collect plastic bottles and caps assigning a reward to whom bestows them, this research c...

This Crossing Boundary hosts contributions accounting for ex-periences and theoretical perspectives which may look distant for how they address the socio-technical transition in the energy field but, we believe, when put in conversation, help common questions and tentative answers come to the fore. Giorgio Osti, Paul Upham, Paula Maria Bögel and Pa...

The current contribution provides insight into the transformations occurring in food taste and in gastronomy standards, where social media contributes to assess eating out in situations of mobility. The coalition between food and new media has brought about new priorities and standards in taste, relying less on proper gastronomic expertise than on...

The global circulation of people and goods has become a main root cause ofthe introduction of non-endemic species of mosquitoes into temperate zones. Mosquito-borne diseases have recently gained international attention after the Zika outbreak which alarmed international health authorities because of a link with microcephaly incidencein babies bornt...

ABSTRACT (EN) Typical dimension of the élite, gastronomy has been tradionally a specific field of an exclusive expertise. On the one hand, official guidances and evaluators have reinforced the normative dimension of gastronomy - an example is the model of the Michelin Star - on the other hand they have played a role of “democratization” of food. At...

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The TIPS project is based on the idea of using mass media and online newspapers , in particular, as a source for analysing the way science and technology is represented in the public sphere in order to study the role of techno-science in society, its relevance and evolution. To fulfil these aims, TIPS is grounded on a purpose built ICT infrastructu...

Raising consumers' awareness about food safety issues is one of the primary objectives of Italian public health organizations. New dynamic and interactive tools, based on web applications, are already playing a leading role in health promotion campaigns targeted at adolescents. Among the web-based tools specifically designed for young people, educa...

Air quality and climate change policies are finding new common grounds today as increasing social complexity requires better integration of separate knowledge domains. This chapter addresses the complex relationship between these two policy domains, their scientific background and the related acceptability issue, which varies substantially among co...

‘Big data is here to stay.’ This key statement has a double value: is an assumption as well as the reason why a theoretical reflection is needed. Furthermore, Big data is something that is gaining visibility and success in social sciences even, overcoming the division between humanities and computer sciences. In this contribution some consideration...

Consumption and mass production of food have had important consequences for the environment; in a scenario of increasing exploitation of the land, both the standardization of the production of specific foods and the general quantity of produced food have increased. The growing environmental crisis in its various forms - among which we can mention t...