Davide BENNATO
Davide Bennato, PhD in Communication Sciences (University of Rome La Sapienza), is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication, Sociology of Digital Media and Digital Sociology, and he is president of the Degree course "Scienze e Lingue per la Comunicazione" of the Department of Humanistic Sciences of the University of Catania.
He is one of the founding members and past vice–president (2005-08) of STS Italia (the Italian Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology) and he was a member of the board of professors at the Lipari School on Computational Complex and Social Systems.
Currently he is board member of Bench s.r.l., a University of Catania spin off in social and marketing researches with a big data approach, he is also member of the board of professors of the Ph.D. in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Catania and board member of the Center for Digital Umanities (CINUM) of the University of Catania.
His research topics are: digital sociology, collective behaviours in social media, big data ethics, relationships between technology and values, science and technology communications models in the internet, computational social science.
On his research interests he wrote on his blog Tecnoetica.it and he is a columnist for the digital magazine Agendadigitale.eu.
DAVIDE BENNATO
PRESENT STATUS
Associate professor, in SPS/08 scientific field - Sociology of culture and communication, University of Catania, Department of Human Sciences
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1991-1996
Degree in Sociology (Sociology of Science), mark 110/110 cum laude, University of Rome “La Sapienza“. Dissertation: The Decline and Transformation of Artificial Intelligence.
1996-1997
School of Methodology of Social Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Dissertation: Computational Models in Social Sciences.
1997-2000
PhD in Communication Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Dissertation: The Social Construction of Computer Science.
2001-2003
Research fellow in "Technology and Society", University of Rome "la Sapienza"
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2 years (Academic Years: 2004-05 to 2005-06), Contract professor, Mass Communication Sociology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Communication Sciences
3 years (Academic Years: 2005-06 to 2008-09), Contract professor, Design and Publishing of Multimedia System, University of Siena, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences
2 years (Academic Years: 2006-07 to 2007-08), Contract professor, Theory and Tecnique of New Media, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Communication Sciences.
3 years (Academic Years: 2006-07 to 2008-09), Contract professor, Sociology of Research and Innovation, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Sociology.
1 year (Academic Year: 2007-08), Contract professor, Theory and Tecnique of New Media, University of Molise, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences.
1 year (Academic Year: 2007-08), Contract professor, Laboratory of Conception and Design of Multimedia Products, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Communication Sciences and Faculty of Architecture
1 year (Academic Year: 2008-09), Contract professor, Theory and Tecnique of New Media, Free University LUISS “Guido Carli”, Faculty of Political Sciences
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
2003-2007
Research director “Digital Content Consumption Behaviours”, Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Rome
2005- today
Co-founding member and vice-president (2005-08) of STS-Italia (Italian Association of Science and Technology Studies).
2012- today
Member of the board of Bench s.r.l., an University of Catania spin off focused on social and marketing researches.
2013-today
Member of the board of professors at the Lipari School on Computational Social Science.
2013-2014
Internal consultant of the communication group for the social media presence project of the University of Catania
2013-today
Delegate member of the Department of Humanistic Sciences of the University of Catania for the website and communication activities.
PRESENCE IN SCIENTIFIC CONVENTIONS
27-28-29 September 2001
L'Europa delle reti
AIS - Italian Sociological Association
Presented paper: Archivists of babel. Search engines and privacy
Data: 27-28 June 2003
Le TV digitali dell’Europa Mediterranea
Department of Communication Sciences – University of Salerno (Faculty of Communication Sciences) – University of Rome“La Sapienza”
Presented paper: Wi-Fi and emerging social behavior
7-8-9 October 2004
Second Forum of Young Sociologists
AIS - Italian Sociological Association
Presented paper: Tecnoethics. The role of values in the relationship between technology and society
17 June 2005
Etica di Internet
Cultural Office of the France Embassy in Italy, University of Rome "La Sapienza", IUAV University of Venice.
Presented paper: Ethics of blogs. New strategies in newsmaking
25-26 November 2005
Studi Sociali della Scienza e della Tecnologia. Una comunità si confronta.
STS Italia - Italian Association of Science and Technology Studies
Oral presentation: The social use of technology: marketing and cultural patterns
14-15 December 2006
Senso comune e costruzione della realtà
AIS – Italian Sociological Association
Presented paper: The file sharing user between common sense and uncommon ideas
18 May 2007
Le riviste scientifico-culturali nel XXI secolo. La sfida di internet
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Sociology and Communication
Presented paper: Online journals as a platform for knowledge sharing
17 December 2008
La scienza ai tempi del web partecipativo
STS Italia - Italian Association of Science and Technology Studies
Oral presentation: Scientific communities online: overview of digital platforms for science
4 June 2009
Network Analysis: reti sociali, struttura del web e di internet
CERMS - Centro di Ricerca in Metodologia delle Scienze, DIS - Department of Computer Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Oral presentation: Strategies of social relationship in the social networking platforms
5 October 2009
Internet Governance Forum 2009 – Reti Sociali: cosa è pubblico, cosa è privato
IIT CNR – Institute of Computer Science and Telematics at the Italian National Research Council
Discussant
20 November 2009
Le reti socievoli. La ricerca nel/del web sociale
AIS – Italian Sociological Association
Presented paper: Death of a pop icon. Online reactions to the death of Michael Jackson
8 April 2010
2060: Con quali fonti si farà la storia del nostro presente? Tecniche, pratiche e scienze sociali a confronto
Fondazione Telecom Italia, AIS - Italian sociological Association, SISSCO - Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History, Polytechnic of Turin
Presented paper: Digital chronotopes. Trace analysis and visual representations
23-24-25 September 2010
IX Convegno nazionale. Stati, Nazioni, Società Globale: Sociologicamente
AIS – Italian Sociological Association
Presented paper: The spreading of information online. The Twitter case study (research paper with Alessandro Panconesi and Hassen Benhotman, University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
30 September 2010
WARM – Workshop on Advanced Research methods
SCSS – PhD program in Sociology and Communication Sciences of the Show Business, University of Urbino (Italy)
Oral presentation: Listening online conversations (Invited speaker)
1-2-3 September 2011
Ricerca qualitativa e giovani studiosi (RiQGioS)
University degli studi “Kore” di Enna
Member of the scientific committee, discussant
13 September 2012
XXVI annual conference SISP – Italian Society of Political Science
Oral presentation: Digital processes of agenda building. The strategies of the political think tank to influence public opinion online
17-18 May 2013
I mestieri della politica. Storie, attori e tecniche per la gestione del consenso
University di Catania, Department of Social and Political Sciences
Oral presentation: Politics tested with the big data
12-14 September 2013
XXVII Annual Conference SISP – Italian Society of Political Science
Panel: Sezione 5: Comunicazione Politica. Section 5.5: Tweeting, Posting, Networking. Una riflessione (di metodo) sulle campagne politiche online tra impegno civico e comunicazione elettorale (Chair: Marzia Antenore)
Discussant
10-12 October 2013
La qualità del sapere sociologico. X National Conference of AIS - Italian Sociological Association
Oral presentation: Semu cyberdevoti tutti! Strategies of collective participation in the festival of Sant'Agata via social media
3-5 December 2013
Winter School on Internet Studies: Identità, relazione e capitale sociale negli scenari del Web 2.0.
University of Salerno, Department of Social Communication and Political Sciences
Oral presentation: The limitations of the humanistic approach of the digital culture
Discussant: Social capital and networks
20-21 gennaio 2014
5th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop – IIR 2014
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Panel “Information and Knowledge Retrieval in the age of Social Media”
Oral presentation: Information challenges in the social media world from a sociological point of view
23 May 2014
Gli amori difficili. Ricerca e comunicazione possono andare d’accordo?
Alessandro Liberati Association, Italian Cochrane Network, IRCCS Istituto Mario Negri
Oral presentation: Communicating research with social media
12-14 June 2014
5th STS Italia - Italian Association of Science and Technology Studies Conference. A matter of design: Making society through science and technology
STS Italia - Italian Association of Science and Technology Studies, Politecnico di Milano
Track 5 – Rethinking sociological gaze and citizenship through data
Track convenor
5-7 March 2015
Scienza Aperta per una ricerca migliore
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Environmental Biology
Oral presentation: Science 2.0. Scientific research in the time of social media
12 June 2015
Data Science: nuovi approcci per affrontare vecchi problemi?
Municipality of Rome, University of Rome “La Sapienza” Department of Statistics
Oral presentation: Social media as a lens to analyze social behaviors. The use of computational social science to understand "Mafia capitale"
25-26 September 2015
Sulle tracce dei big data. Questioni di metodo e percorsi di ricerca
AIS – Italian Sociological Association
University of Rome “La Sapienza” Department of Communication and Social Research
Presented paper: The risk of datafrenia in the analysis of Big Data. Methodological notes from the case “Mafia Capitale”.
18 October 2015
China day. A global Strategy to improve
MIA – Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo
Invited speaker to the workshop “The Chinese audiovisual market: the big picture”
Oral presentation: Big data for a big picture
28 November 2015
Ricercare e Comunicare: il percorso dalla produzione del dato alla sua applicazione
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Diagnostic and Clinical Medicine and Public Health
Oral presentation: La comunicazione nella ricerca sui Social Network
9 December 2015
Workshop on Italian Documentary Film Approach
GZDOC - Guangzhou International Documentary Festival (Guangdong, People’s Republic of China)
Oral presentation: An Italian collective crossmedia storytelling: a big data approach
Academic Year 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES A - L - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES M - Z - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Textual studies for digital professions - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGIA DIGITALE
Academic Year 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES A - L - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES M - Z - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Textual studies for digital professions - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGIA DIGITALE
Academic Year 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
Academic Year 2018/2019
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 3rd Year
MASS COMMUNICATION SOCIOLOGY
Academic Year 2017/2018
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
Academic Year 2016/2017
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
Academic Year 2015/2016
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and languages for communication - 1st Year
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES