{"id":142701,"date":"2025-05-12T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/roberta-bracciale-8885-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:33:57","slug":"roberta-bracciale-8885-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/roberta-bracciale-8885-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Bracciale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professoressa Ordinaria &#8211; Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche | Tel.: 0502212447 &#8211; Email: roberta.bracciale@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"8885","unipi-persone-nome":"Roberta","unipi-persone-cognome":"Bracciale","unipi-persone-email":"roberta.bracciale@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Roberta Bracciale, PhD in Communication Studies (University of Rome \"Sapienza\"), is Full Professor of Media Sociology at the Department of  Political Sciences, University of Pisa (Italy).<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nShe is the director of MediaLaB | Big Data in Social and Political Research Lab|, a laboratory focused on analysing big data in social and political research.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHer research interests focus on the interconnections between digital media, everyday life, and the public sphere. Her areas of expertise are: (i) the relationship between social and digital inequalities, with an in-depth analysis of the outcomes of the processes of inclusion vs. exclusion; (ii) the transformations of participatory practices following the platformisation of society, with a specific focus on the mechanisms of grassroots production and of memeification of the public sphere seen as connective aggregators of individual instances; (iii) the redefinition of the communication strategies of social actors achieved through the introduction of emotional elements, and the adoption of populism as a communication style, to increase the involvement and attract the attention of their audiences exploiting the algorithmic logics of the platforms; (iv) the application of computational methods to the domain of social sciences.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIn addition to her research activities, she is the Co-Chief Information Officer of Pisa University. She is also the co-chief editor of the scientific journal \u201cThe Lab's Quarterly\u201d. She is a member of the doctoral board of the national program in \"Artificial Intelligence\" and also of the \"Political Sciences\" at Pisa University program. 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Boosting engagement in the 2019 European elections campaign in Italy<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Bracciale, Roberta; Grisolia, Francesco; Martella, Antonio; Tesconi, Maurizio - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1103114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Populism and emotions: Italian political leaders\u2019 communicative strategies to engage Facebook users<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Martella, Antonio; Bracciale, Roberta - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1107146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Italian Prime Minister as a Captain in the Storm: The Pandemic as an Opportunity to Build Personalized Political Leadership<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mazzoleni, Gianpietro; Bracciale, Roberta - 2021 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1076050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does populism go viral? 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