CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Chiara Giaccardi Born 03/12/1959, F, Italian citizen Other languages: English, French CONTACTS: Work Address: Università Cattolica, via S. Agnese, 2, 20123 Milano (Italy) Home Address: via Prudenziana 17, 22100 Como (Italy) Web: chiara.giaccardi@unicatt.it chiara.giaccardi@mcluhanstudies.com www.generativita.it @GiaccardiChiara Phone: University: + 39 02 72342868 Mobile: + 39 3336402698 CURRENT POSITION: Full Professor DEPARTMENT: Media and Performing Arts FACULTY: Humanities UNIVERSITY: Catholic University of Milan EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 1984 Degree in Philosophy, Catholic University of Milan; thesys on Marshall McLuhan; Score 110/110 cum laude 1989 MPhil in Semiotics, Catholic University Of Milan, Final score70/70 cum Laude
1991 PhD in Social Sciences, University of Kent (UK), thesis on Avertising on television: a sociosemiotic comparative analysis, Supervisor H.H. Davis, External examiner: M. Featherstone PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT 1994 Researcher in Sociology, Catholic University of Milan 2001 Associate Professor of Sociology, Catholic University of Milan 2007 Professor of Sociology, Catholic University of Milan 2010 Full Professor of Sociology, Catholic University of Milan OTHER POSTS 1991 visiting fellow University of Edinburgh (UK) 2000 visiting fellow University of Kent (UK) 2007 visiting fellow to the Ecole of Hautes Etudes, GPSM, Paris (F) 2009 Head of the Doctoral School in Culture della Comunicazione at the Catholic University of Milan 2009 Visiting fellow at the UCA (Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires) and Ritsumeikan University Kyoto (Japan) 2010 Visiting Fellow Ritsumeikan University Kyoto 2011 Visiting fellow University de Lasalle, Mexico City. 2012 Visiting Fellow University of Notre Dame, Indiana US TEACHING Undergraduate: - Intercultural communication, curriculum International Relationships; (2001-2009) - Media Sociology, curriculum Communication (1997-2006) - Media research, faculty of Media Languages (2012) Post graduate: Media and globalization, curriculum Communication (2001-2009)
Media sociology and Anthropology, curriculum in Communication for Media, Businness and Organizations (since 2008) Teaching activities for PhD. Students in Milan (IULM, S. Raffaele) and other italian Universities (Università degli studi di Torino, Università della Calabria; Università degli studi di Bologna). MEMBERSHIPS Department of Media and Performing Arts, UC Milan Scientific Committee "Aggiornamenti Sociali", Milan Board committee for PhD in Communication Cultures, UC Milan Arc, Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change (UC Milan) Editorial Committee International Journal of McLuhan Studies (http://www.mcluhanstudies.com/), Certa (Centro studi per la televisione e l audiovisivo), Milano UC Ais, Italian Association of Sociology ECREA (European Communicatin Research and Education Association); Founder and Chair of ECREA's Temporary Working Group "Media and the City" (http://twg.ecrea.eu/mc/). Director of Master in Musical Communication. Media, Industry, Digital Market, Almed, Catholic Universy (since 2011) Since 2013 Director of Comunicazioni Sociali, Vita & Pensiero, Milan (Academic journal on media and communication) RESEARCH Topics: globalization processes and socio-cultural transformations; intercultural communication; media anthropology; media and the city; new media and social relationships SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (after 2000) Books
La globalizzazione non è un destino, Bari, Laterza, 2001 (with M. Mgatti) L io globale, Bari, Laterza, 2003 (with Mauro Magatti) Comunicazione interculturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 Media, space and flows: Insights on intercultural communication, (ed.), Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2009 Abitanti della rete, (ed), Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2010 La comunicazione interculturale nell'era digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012 La scuola e i media. Tra conflitto e convergenza (with M. Tarantino), Trento, Erickson, 2012 Chapters in Books Vivere nei quartieri sensibili in M. Magatti (ed) La città abbandonata, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, pgg. 213-282 Dall ebbrezza al risentimento: segnature per una critica delle inversioni invertite, in F. G. Paelari, S. Tomelleri (eds.) Risentimento, perdono e riconciliazione nelle reti sociali, Roma, Carocci, 2008, pgg. 19-34. "Abitare la rete. Il web come luogo antropologico" In C. Giaccardi (ed), Abitanti della rete, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2010 Journals Comunità in atto, monographyc number, Comunicazioni Sociali. 3, 2007, with C. Bernardi (eds), V & P, Milan Dal Paese catodico a Egolandia: media e crisi culturale, La Rivista del Clero, 9, 2009. "Media e magia", monographic number Comunicazioni Sociali, 3, 2010 Liturgie di presenza: canali magici e vita quotidiana, Comunicazioni Sociali, 3, 2010 "From tactile to magic", International Journal of McLuhan Studies, 1, 2011, 111-123 PRIZE AND AWARDS - may 2011: best paper award in the section "Extensions and sensorial dimension" Mcuhan Galaxy International conference, Barcelona 23-25 may 2011 (Fram tactile to magic)
- september 2011, S. Michele Prize, Capri: winner in the "Youth" section (Abitanti della rete, Milan, Vita e Pensiero, 2010)