Giulia Giorgi (she/her)
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Giulia Giorgi (she/her)
@giuliagiorgi26.bsky.social
Researcher and professor at the University of Milan. Digital cultures, youth cultures, digital methods, visual research, memes.
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My first solo paper is out on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social and it's on, you've guessed it, memes!

In the study, I explore how memes partake into the sociological process of generational othering.

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Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Directly from our Special Feature on Harrison White, this paper on agency in managerial networks is freely available on our website:

🧪🔗 sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...

#sociology #socialtheory #HarrysonWhite
August 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Another day, another reading recommendation from our new issue (Vol. 19 No. 2). In this piece, Emily Erikson (@emilyerikson.bsky.social) reflects on some core concepts of Harrison’s theoretical work.

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#socialtheory #sociology #HarrisonWhite
July 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Check out our latest issue (Vol. 19 No. 2) and the included Special Feature on Harrison White. Here's one of the insightful pieces you will find, by John Levi Martin.

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#sociology #socialtheory #HarrisonWhite
July 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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📢New issue out!🧪
The latest Sociologica Issue (Vol. 19 No. 2), including an interesting Special Feature, a Symposium, essays, inteviews and much more.

Read it now!
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July 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Here is the first article that was came out of the Generic Visuals in the News project in 2022, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies' special issue "COVID-19: The Cultural Constructions of a Global Crisis" (Paul Frosh and Myria Georgiou, Eds.). 1/
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‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration - Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, C.W. Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, 2022
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and ‘flatten-the-curve’ line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repert...
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March 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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**Hot off the press** A new open-access article from the Generic Visuals in the News project on news audiences' engagements with stock photos and simple data visualizations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/
Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities - Helen Kennedy, Giorgia Aiello, Taylor Annabell, C W Anderson, 2025
Generic visuals like stock photos and simple data visualizations circulate in the news with increasing frequency, and so do dominant narratives about them. Stoc...
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February 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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“The Boomers lived through a period of great expansion. They have never cared about who would come next.” – Man, millennial generation, Italy

Giulia Giorgi looks at how online memes have helped to construct & consolidate stereotypes about different generations. #OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/4juxaES
January 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My first solo paper is out on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social and it's on, you've guessed it, memes!

In the study, I explore how memes partake into the sociological process of generational othering.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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📡New Issue Out!📡
Among other things, the issue proposes an amazing Special Feature titled “On Mentoring”, edited and introduced by David Stark, with seven contributions.

Find it here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
January 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM