Curriculum vitae MARINA MICHELI Bergamo, Itay m.micheli6@campus.unimib.it EDUCATION June 2013 PhD, Information Society, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University Milan-Bicocca Dissertation title: Digital distinctions. Internet appropriation by teenagers and social inequalities. Tutor prof. Giorgio Grossi Main topics: media studies, qualitative research, sociology of culture, digital inequality, youth and digital media June 2008 MA, Communication in the Information Society, University of Turin Dissertation title: Cognitive work within web 2.0 platforms. Confronting knowledge work and social network sites. Tutor: prof. Luciano Paccagnella Main topics: internet studies, new media theory, social network sites 2004 BA, Media and Communication studies, University of Turin HONORS AND AWARDS PhD Scholarship, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University Milan-Bicocca (a.a. 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12) AICA and Rotary International Award ETIC 2013-2014: Masters and PhD theses on Ethics and Information and Communication Technologies PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research 01/2014 current Research assistant, Studiare Sviluppo Srl, Roma Project: Evaluating the effects of ICT investments in south of Italy s schools. Support in the evaluation of the National Strategic Plan (QSN) 2007-2013 for the Department of Development and Economic Cohesion Qualitative fieldwork in a sample of fifty schools, interviews and focus groups with school principals, teachers and school staff, observation in classrooms and labs with students; cooperation at the development of a questionnaire for school principals and teachers; analysis of qualitative and quantitative data; drafting of the final report. 01/2014 06/2014 Research assistant, Net Children Go Mobile, OssCom, Centro di ricerca sui media e la comunicazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano Project: Net Children Go Mobile, WP4 Exploring children s and adults understanding of mobile risks and safety Qualitative research: interviews with children; assistance during focus groups with children and adults; transcription, encode and analysis of data, participation in writing articles and reports. Coordinator: dott.sa Giovanna Mascheroni 12/2013 02/2014 Researcher, Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE), Milano Project: é-book : a survey among Italian university students Analysis of a questionnaire concerning university students uses of ICT and digital contents for learning. Multivariate analysis with SPSS (factor analysis and cluster analysis) and final report published by AIE. Coordinator: Giovanni Peresson. 1
12/2013 03/2014 Researcher, INVALSI, Istituto nazionale per la valutazione del sistema educativo di istruzione e di formazione, Frascati (RM) Project: Ex-Ante Evaluation for the Programme PON Education 2014-20 (Programme for the management of European structural and investment funds for the Italian education sector) Literature review on digital divides and inequalities among youth, secondary data analysis concerning ICT in European and Italian schools, cooperation in drafting a chapter for the final report. Coordinator: dott. Roberto Ricci. 10/2013 12/2013 Researcher, OssCom, Centro di ricerca sui media e la comunicazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano Project: Technologies for learning, development and integration Report for ING Direct press office with relevant issues and recent data about Italian children and ICT use, interviews with eight experts on ICTs for learning and children development, analysis of projects and apps addressed to children. Coordinator: prof. Piermarco Aroldi. 03/2013 06/2013 Research assistant, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University, Milan-Bicocca, Italy in cooperation with IPRASE (Provincial Institute of Educational Research and Experimentation located in Trento) Project: Investigation on digital skills and internet use of secondary school students in the Province of Trento Analysis of survey data (bivariate), editing author s contributions, writing chapters for the final report. Coordinator: dott.sa Chiara Tamanini 11/2011 05/2012 Research assistant, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University, Milan-Bicocca, sponsorship of Lombardy Region and Lombardy Office of Education. Project: Investigation on digital skills and internet use of secondary school students in Lombardy. Research conducted during PhD thesis fieldwork. Contribution at the development of a test for digital skills assessment, survey design, data collection management, data analysis and report writing. Coordinator: dott. Marco Gui 03/2009 06/2009 Junior researcher, Department of Social Science, University of Turin, Italy. Project: Humanistic and scientific knowledge distribution with ICT Expert interviews and data collection. Supervisor: prof. Mariella Berra Teaching 2011 current Teaching assistant, course Sociology of culture and leisure (dott. Gui), M.A. program Science of Tourism and Local Communities, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca Previous work experiences 11/2008 07/2009 Junior web analyst, R.T.I Interactive Media-Moltomedia, Milano Sentiment analysis, social media strategy and cross media projects 10/2007 03/2008 Web developer (internship), Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Web programming with CSS and Javascript 11/2005 02/2007 Web developer, Bellissimo Vision, Torino Web programming with PhP, CSS, Html OTHER EXPERIENCES 2010 - current Researcher, NuMediaBios New media observatory of University Milano-Bicocca. Research on students media consumption habits and internet use with quantitative and qualitative methods. 2
05/2012, 05/2013, 03/2014 Media educator at Leone XIII middle school in, Milano. Development and implementation of a media education workshop about internet risks and opportunities. Sponsorship by MED the Italian association for media and communication education. COURSES 09-20 July 2012 Summer school in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, UK. Course: Qualitative Data Analysis (dr. Lea Sgier) 13-15 September 2011 Specialization Course in Online Research Methodology and Internet Studies, Urbino University Carlo Bo, Pesaro e Urbino, Italy. 1-31 March 2011 Visiting PhD student, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Los Angeles, USA. Course: New Media Literacies graduate seminar (prof. Henry Jenkins) 2-13 August 2010 ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Course: Interview/Expert Interview (dr. Alenka Jelen) COMPETENCES Languages: English Software: software for statistical (SPSS) and qualitative (NVivo) data analysis, Microsoft Windows and all its application software (Office), Apple and all its application software, multimedia software (Macromedia Dreamweaver, Aperture, familiarity with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere). July, 2014 3
SCIENTIFIC WORK Areas of research: adolescents internet use, social and digital inequalities, ICTs and education, parental mediation, media literacy and digital skills. Pubblications 2014 Micheli M. Stili di studio degli universitari italiani tra carta e digitale [Italian university students styles of studying between digital and paper], AIE Quaderni del giornale della libreria, ISBN: 9788889637661. Micheli M. «Facebook, adolescenti e differenze di classe» [Facebook, adolescents and class differences], Mediascapes Journal, vol. 1 n. 2, pp. 91-105. Gui M., Micheli M., Fiore B. «Is there a learning gap among students derived from Internet use? Evidence from the Italian PISA», Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 6 n. 1, pp: 1-24. Micheli M. «New media literacies in after-school settings: Three curricula from the program 'Explore Locally, Excel Digitally' at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles», Journal of Media Practice, vol. 14, n. 4, pp. 331-350. 2013 Micheli M., «La mediazione della famiglia» [Parental mediation], in Marco Gui (eds) Indagine sull uso dei nuovi media tra gli studenti delle scuole superiori lombarde. Cavalli N, Ferri P., Mangiatordi A., Micheli M., Pozzali A., Scenini F. e Serenelli F., «Italian undergraduates join Facebook, but keep a critical distance: It is useless, but I m using it», in International Journal of digital literacy and digital competence. Mainardi A., Mangiatordi A., Micheli M., Scenini F., «Gender differences in online consumption and content production among Italian undergraduate students», in Cultura e comunicazione, rivista PIC Ais. Gui M., Micheli M. «Il test di competenza digitale» [The digital skills test], in Marco Gui (a cura di) Indagine sull uso dei nuovi media tra gli studenti delle scuole superiori lombarde, Regione Lombardia pp. 42-48, ISBN: 9878890064265. 2011 Gui M., Micheli M., «I giovani e la disuguaglianza digitale. Il dibattito e la situazione in Italia» [Youth and digital inequality. The debate and the situation in italy], in Città in Controluce, n.19-20, Vicolo del Pavone. Micheli M., «Apprendimento informale e media digitali. Un racconto dagli Stati Uniti sui progetti e le ricerche intorno alla questione learning and digital media» [Informal learning and digital media. An account from the United States about projects and researches on learning and digital media], in Bricks, ISSN: 2239-6187 Conferences 2013 17-21 June International Communication Association. Challenging Communication Research, London with Marco Gui Parental mediation and adolescents Internet use. Assessing beneficial parental strategies among young Italians 3-5 May Media in Transition 8: public media, private media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA with Nicola Cavalli, Paolo Ferri, Arianna Mainardi, M., Mangiatordi A., Mainardi A., Pozzali A. e Scenini F. How do Italian University students see and use Facebook: is it private, public, or both? 2012 24-27 October ECREA 4th European Communication Conference, Istanbul Internet socialization and social class. The relationship between parents cultural capital and teenagers Internet use in Italy 4
20 September PIC-Ais, Symposium on Media industries and grassroots cultural production in the digital era, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. with M., Mangiatordi A., Mainardi A. e Scenini F. Gender and geekness in online consumption and participation: results from a survey 21-23 June 4th National STS Italian Conference Emerging Technologies, Social worlds, Rovigo Il ruolo della famiglia nell'appropriazione di internet degli adolescenti [Family s role on adolescents internet appropriation]. 2011 3-5 March Digital Media and Learning 2nd Edition Designing Learning Futures, Long Beach, California, USA Digital reproduction of inequalities? An ethnographic account on differences of digital media use by teens in Italy 2010 7-9 October ESA Sociology of Culture 3rd Edition Culture and the Making of Worlds, University Bocconi, Milano Practices of everyday Internet consumption by unconventional users 20th-22 July, IVSA International Visual Sociology Conference, University of Bologna, Bologna Twitter(di)verse and visual capital: a methodology to analyse visual(counter)cultures on Twitter Referee Referee for Media Education Studi, ricerche e buone pratiche and Information Communication and Society 5