Michele Sorice

Michele Sorice
Born (1961-05-01) May 1, 1961
Nationality Italian
Occupation Sociologist and Political Scientist
Known for Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Participatory Deliberative Democracy, Democratic Innovations

Michele Sorice (born 1 May 1961) is an Italian sociologist and political scientist, who is renowned for his studies and research in the fields of Political Communication and Media Sociology.[1] He is an Italian scholar in the field of media sociology, political communication and political science and the author of over 20 books and over 50 articles.

Work

Two stages can be identified in his academic life. The first stage involves outlining a new vision of the interrelationships between media studies and consumption theories, in the frame of Cultural Studies perspective. Publications during that time include Logiche dell'illogico (1995), L'industria culturale in Italia (1998) and Le comunicazioni di massa (2000). In the second stage, Sorice developed his studies about media, politics and participatory deliberative democracy: he has presented many papers on these topics in many important international conferences. In 2013, he was keynote speaker of the plenary session of the PSA Media and Politics Group at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association (Cardiff, UK, March 25–27), presenting a paper about Web democracy between participation and populism: Crisis, Political parties and new movements in the Italian public sphere.

Among his most recent books there are I media (2005), La ricerca sull'audience (with E. De Blasio, G. Gili, M. Hibberd: 2007)[2] Sociologia dei mass media (2009),[3] "La comunicazione politica" (2011).,[4] "La leadership politica. Media e costruzione del consenso" (2012),[5] "Assessing Communication. Integrated Approaches in Political, Social and Business Context" (ed).[6] and "I media e la democrazia". His recent research focuses in particular on the relationship between political communication and populism, the political leadership, the participatory deliberative democracy, the social movements and, more generally, on the structural relationships between media and democracy.

Sorice was professor of Media Studies at the University of Lugano (USI) in Switzerland and at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. He held lectures and seminars in many European universities. He is director of the CMCS-LUISS working papers series and member of the scientific board of Communication Management Quarterly.

Sorice serves as Professor at the LUISS University in Rome,[7] where he is Director of the Centre for Media and Democratic Innovations "Massimo Baldini" (CMDI and member of the scientific board of the School of Government. Since 2015, he is Honorary Professor at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. He is also an Invited Professor at Gregorian University.[8] where he teaches Political Science. He is the coordinator of Innovazione Democratica, a think tank about participatory deliberative democracy, and also coordinator with Professor Philip Schlesinger,[9] of an international research network focusing on media public services in Europe.[10] He is member of the SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica), of the Media and Politics Specialist Group and of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, both of the Political Studies Association (PSA) of UK.

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Articles

References

  1. M. Accorinti. "Sociologia della comunicazione", in D. E. Viganò. "Dizionario della comunicazione". Roma, Carocci, 2009, p. 591
  2. http://www.biomedsearch.com/article/De-Blasio-Emiliana-Guido-Gili/161856161.html
  3. http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&Itemid=72&task=schedalibro&isbn=9788843065844
  4. "LUP". Luissuniversitypress.it. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  5. "Michele Sorice - LUISS Guido Carli". Docenti.luiss.it. 2001-02-01. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  6. Xavier Debanne. "Pontificia Università Gregoriana - Selezione Docente". Unigre.it. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  7. http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1387&type=P
  8. "The transformation of society and public service broadcasting". Issuu.com. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  9. "Centre for Cultural Studies Research" (PDF). Uel.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-16.

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