Dr Massimo Ragnedda

Associate Professor

Department: Arts

Massimo Ragnedda (PhD) (massimo.ragnedda@northumbria.ac.uk) is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK where he conducts research on the digital divide and social media. He is co-chair of the Digital Divide Working Group (IAMCR), co-convenor of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group) and co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities book series.

He has authored and edited fifteen books with his publications appearing in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian texts.

His books include: Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the digital underclass (Palgrave, 2020); Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian approach to Digital Divide (with Maria Laura Ruiu) Emerald 2020; Digital Inclusion. An International Comparative Analysis (co-edited with Bruce Mutsvairo), Lexington Books 2018; Theorizing the Digital Divide (co-edited with G Muschert), Routledge (2017); The third Digital Divide: a Weberian approach to Digital Inequalities (2017), Routledge; The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective (co-edited with G Muschert) (2013), Routledge.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests lie in digital media and digital inequalities.

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective research students who wish to undertake projects related to the following research fields:

Digital divides and digital inequalities
Digital inclusion and Digital exclusion
Internet research/Internet studies
Digital research
Digital media/Social media

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Between “Empowering” and “Blaming” Mechanisms in Developing Political/Economic Responses to Climate Change, Ruiu, M., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. 1 Feb 2024, In: Sociological Inquiry
COVID-19 Communication and Media: The First Pandemic of the Digital Age, Schulz, J., Robinson, L., Ragnedda, M., Chiaraluce, C., Kleinmann, O. 1 Mar 2023, In: American Behavioral Scientist
Digital–environmental habitus of families in England in times of pandemic, Ruiu, M., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. 12 Jan 2023, In: New Media and Society
Digital stratification: Class, status group, and party in the age of the Internet, Ragnedda, M., Muschert, G., Ruiu, M. 2023, The Sage Handbook of Digital Society, London, SAGE
Investigating how the interaction between individual and circumstantial determinants influence the emergence of digital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families with children in England, Ruiu, M., Ragnedda, M., Addeo, F., Ruiu, G. 4 Apr 2023, In: Information Communication and Society
Lack of ‘common sense’ in the climate change debate: Media behaviour and climate change awareness in the UK, Ruiu, M., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. Jan 2023, In: International Sociology
Measuring digital capital in Italy, Addeo, F., D'Auria, V., Delli Paoli, A., Punziano, G., Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, M. 19 May 2023, In: Frontiers in Sociology
‘Our old pastor thinks the mobile phone is a source of evil.’ Capturing contested and conflicting insights on digital wellbeing and digital detoxing in an age of rapid mobile connectivity, Mutsvairo, B., Ragnedda, M., Mabvundwi, K. 1 Nov 2023, In: Media International Australia
Between Moral and Climate Crisis: Interpreting Climate Change Through the Lens of Moral Panic, Ruiu, M., Ragnedda, M. 2022, Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, Hershey, PA, IGI Global
Between online and offline solidarity: lessons learned from the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy, Ruiu, M., Ragnedda, M. 1 Nov 2022, In: American Behavioral Scientist

PGR Supervision

Indra Prawira Political News Construction in Post-authoritarian Indonesia. Citizen Journalism in Online News Media during 2017 Election Start Date: 20/10/2018 End Date: 31/10/2019
Hanna Kreitem Internet Walled Gardens: Artificial Internet Limitations and Digital Inequalities Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 18/08/2020
Indra Prawira Political News Construction in Post-authoritarian Indonesia. Citizen Journalism in Online News Media during 2017 Election Start Date: 20/10/2018 End Date: 31/10/2019
Hanna Kreitem Internet Walled Gardens: Artificial Internet Limitations and Digital Inequalities Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 27/11/2019

Qualifications

Cultural Studies PhD February 28 2006

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