Projects and Research

Independent Project (2025-ongoing)

Female Influencers in the Digital Hall of Mirrors
Study on female influencers in the Italian digital sphere, with a focus on gender performativity, virality, and the aestheticisation of politics on TikTok.

Corsica–Canioni Correspondence

Research collaboration on archives and historical sources related to the Corsica–Canioni correspondence.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Anna Giaufret, Prof. Beatrice Dal Bo
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PRIN–PNRR (2022–2025) - CORIT

Countering Online Radicalisation and Incivility in Italy: from Fringe to Mainstream
PRIN–PNRR project focused on processes of online radicalisation and the dynamics of digital incivility in the Italian context.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Prof. Sara Bentivegna, Prof. Rossella Rega
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PRIN (2022–2025) - EUQuest

Questioning the EU. Politicisation, Representation, and Agenda Setting in the European Parliament
PRIN project, University of Catania, Department of Political and Social Sciences. The research investigates processes of EU politicisation, political representation, and agenda-setting within the European Parliament.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Marcello Carammia
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PhD Dissertation (2025) - University of Genoa

Misogyny Beyond Borders: A Corpus-Assisted Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Transnational Incel Communities
Doctoral dissertation focused on the linguistic and discursive analysis of transnational incel communities, adopting a corpus-assisted and comparative approach.
Supervisors: Prof. Anna Giaufret, Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann, Prof. Ilaria Torre

Keywords

• Online radicalisation
  

• Digital incivility
  

• Political discourse
  

• Social media studies
  

• Gender studies
  

• Gender performativity
  

• Influencer culture
  

• TikTok and politics
  

• Online misogyny
  

• Incel communities
  

• Computational linguistics
  

• Corpus linguistics
  

• European political communication