Dr. A. Pelizza (annalisa)

Biography

Annalisa Pelizza is Associate professor at Science, Technology and Policy Studies. She studied Media and Communication Sciences at the University of Bologna (2003, cum laude), and holds a Ph.D. in Information Society from the University of Milan-Bicocca (2009, outstanding). From 2006 to 2013 she worked as project manager and ethnographer at governmental organizations and engineering companies, developing large-scale IT infrastructures. She joined UT in 2013 as Marie Curie Fellow. She has also been active in community and artistic techno-social experimentation. Between 2017 and 2022 she will be the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project “Processing Citizenship: Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe”, which will extend her “Vectorial Glance” framework to the analysis of the trans-governmental European information infrastructure for migrant registration. Being originally trained in media studies, semiotics and computer science, Annalisa moved to the field of digital media and information infrastructures, analyzing them from the perspective of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.

Research Interest

Governance of and by Technologies Politics of Information Infrastructures and online communities Quali-Quantitative Methods Media Art, Users and Urban Spaces