About

I am a media scholar and cultural sociologist at Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research explores several topics related to internet culture and internet trends. I focus particularly on how lifestyle and mundane internet content can carry and diffuse fringe ideas. I have also devoted considerable attention to exploring how internet culture can be harnessed for deeper insights into the human condition and our experiences of reality. For example, our sense of time and temporality, what it means to feel “awkward”, and how individuals can use cultural materials to rearrange their own perceptions of reality. I am moved by the intersection between subjective and collective, personal and cultural.

I have been a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and an associate researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium).

I have taught several disciplines related to arts and culture at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. I have also delivered numerous expert contributions in academic courses at Erasmus University Rotterdam and abroad. I have been part of numerous educational boards and education-related task forces.

I hold a cum laude bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Pavia (Italy) and a Master of Science (Research Master’s degree) in Media Studies obtained from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands).

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