Guido ANSELMI
Guido Anselmi studies how digital platforms reshape culture, economics, and power. Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Catania, he teaches cultural, digital, and globalization sociology, and has devoted his research to platform capitalism, the imaginaries that sustain it, and the digital and computational methods applied to sociological inquiry. He is the author of two books: one on the political and epistemological implications of platforms, the other on the platformization of consumer culture. His current projects focus on the political economy of generative artificial intelligence and on the role of platform imaginaries as symbolic resources that consolidate their monopolistic power.
EDUCATION
- PhD, Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca, Urban Sociology (2014) Dissertation: Renewal Megaprojects in the age of Austerity and finance
- MA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Sociologia (2010)
- Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis (2012) — Case study methodology
RESEARCH/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Professore Associato, Università di Catania (2025–oggi)
- RtdB, Università di Catania (2022–2025)
- Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Pavia (2021–2022)
- Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Milano (2019–2021)
- Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Milano (2018–2019)
- Adjunct Lecturer, UniMi (2017–2021)
- Postdoc, UniMiB (2017–2018)
- Research Assistant, H2020 Bridges consortium (2021–2022)
- Research Assistant, Alpfoodway project (2018–2019)
- Research Assistant, Fablabnet project (2016–2017)
- Research Assistant, Smartphone project (2016–2017)
- Data analyst and programmer, Viralbeat srl (2015–2017)
- Freelance data analyst (2014–2017)
- Teaching & tutoring, Urberur PhD Program (2014–2017)
- National Scientific Qualification (2024), sector 14/GSPS-06 – Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes
- Principal Investigator, PIACERI Starting Grant project, University of Catania (2024–2025)