Olimpia Affuso is assistant professor (researcher - TdB) of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Calabria, where she teaches Public and Institutional Communication and coordinates the observatory “Ossidiana. Osservatorio per lo studio dei processi culturali e della vita quotidiana". From 2016 to 2020 she taught Sociology at the University of Naples "L’Orientale", and from 2011 to 2014 she was a member of the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, as a research fellow. His research interests mainly concern collective memory, communication processes, public sphere. Among her recent scientific works: Le sfere pubbliche alternative. Critica di un ideal-tipo, in “Quaderni di Teoria sociale”, vol. 1-2, 2020; Big Data: a challenge for social sciences. Criticisms for social Knowledge and politics, in “Central European Political Science Review”, vol. 20, 2019 (con A. Coco); Memorie in pubblico, Mimesis, 2017.

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