GIORGIA AIELLO [email protected], [email protected]

CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Professor of Culture and Communication (Grade 10; .25 FTE from November 1, 2020). School of Media and Communication. University of Leeds, September 2020 – present.

• Professoressa Associata, Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi, a tempo definito (Associate Professor, Sociology of Culture and Communication, part-time). Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione. Università di Bologna, November 2020 – present.

• Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale di Prima Fascia in Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi, Settore Concorsuale 14/C2 (National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication). Italian Ministry of University and Research, May 2021 – present.

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Professor in Media and Communication (Grade 9). School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. June 2016 – August 2020.

• Director of Research and Innovation. School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. January 2017 – November 2019.

• Visiting Scholar. Visual Studies and Media Culture Research Group, University of Antwerp (competitively selected through university funding scheme for departments to invite external scholars). November 2015.

• Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. October 2015 – December 2016.

• Visiting Scholar. School of Media Studies, New School for Public Engagement (New York). April – May 2014.

• Lecturer in International Communication (Grade 8). School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. May 2011 – May 2016.

• Head of BA Communication and Media. School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. October 2011 – September 2015.

• Deputy Head of BA Communication and Media. School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. September 2010 – September 2011.

• Lecturer in International Communication (Grade 7). Institute of Communications Studies (now School of Media and Communication), University of Leeds. January 2010 – April 2011.

• Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies. Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University. August 2008 – December 2009.

• Teaching Assistant, Pre-doctoral Instructor, Research Assistant. Department of Communication, Comparative History of Ideas Program, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington (all posts obtained on a competitive basis). September 2002 – June 2008.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Communication. University of Washington, 2008. Supervised by Professor Crispin Thurlow.

• Post-graduate degree in Communication and Information Technology. University of Bologna, 2002.

• BA and MA in Communication Studies. University of Bologna, 2001. Summa cum Laude (110/110 e lode).

• Visiting graduate student. University of Washington, 1999 – 2000.

• ERASMUS Programme. University of Bremen, 1997 – 1998. Supervised by Professor Umberto Eco.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books Aiello, G. (in press for December 2021). Communication, Espace, Image. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel. Aiello, G. and Parry, K. (2020). Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture. London: SAGE. [ISBN: 978141296224] Reviewed in: International Journal of Press/Politics by Roland Bleiker (in English); MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen|Reviews by Evelyn Runge (in German); Visual Communication by Mary Angela Bock (in English); Studia Medioznawcze by Alicja Waszkiewicz-Raviv (in Polish). Aiello, G., Tarantino, M. and Oakley, K. (Eds.) (2017). Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions. New York: Peter Lang. [ISBN: 9781433137518] Special issues of academic journals Aiello, G. (Ed.) (in press for 2021). Special forum “Urban communication research in European contexts: Critical questions and theoretical agendas”. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Pinfari, M., Aiello, G., and Voltmer, K. (Eds.) (2020). Special issue “The Political Aesthetics of Democratization Conflicts”. Media, War & Conflict, 13(1). Aiello, G. and Tosoni, S. (Eds.) (2016). Special section “Going About the City: Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research”. International Journal of Communication, 10(2016). Aiello, G. and Pauwels, L. (Eds.) (2014). Special issue “Difference and Globalization”. Visual Communication, 13(3). Associate Editor (Guest Editor: Karma R. Chávez). Special issue “Out of Bounds? Queer Intercultural Communication”. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 6(2), 2013. Journal articles and guest editorials * Articles co-authored with postgraduate students and early-career scholars *Røstvik, C. M., Aiello, G., Kennedy, H. and Anderson, C. (forthcoming in 2022). “Representing Covid-19: ‘generic visuals’ of a global crisis”. International Journal of Cultural Studies, special issue “Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis” (Myria Georgiou and Paul Frosh, Eds.). Aiello, G. (in press for 2021). “The visible city: Communicating distinction in urban space”. Special forum “Urban Communication Research in European contexts” (Giorgia Aiello, Ed.), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 18(4). Aiello, G. (2021). “Communicating the ‘world-class’ city: A visual-material approach”. Social Semiotics, special Issue “Writing (in) the City” (Adam Jaworski and Li Wei, Eds.), 31(1), 136-154. *Thurlow, C., Aiello, G., and Portmann, L. (2020). “Visualizing teens and technology: A social semiotic analysis of stock photography and news media imagery”. New Media & Society, 22(3), 528-549. Pinfari, M., Aiello, G., and Voltmer, K. (2020). “Special issue: The political aesthetics of democratization conflicts”, Media, War & Conflict, 13(1), 3-7. Krstić, A., Aiello, G., and Vladisavljević, N. (2020). “Visual metaphor and authoritarianism in Serbian political cartoons”. Media, War & Conflict, special issue “The Political Aesthetics of Democratization Conflicts”, 13(1), 27-49. *Krstić, A., Parry, K., and Aiello, G. (2020). “Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation: An analysis of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade television coverage”. European Journal of Cultural 2 of 21

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Studies, 23(2), 165-183. *University of Belgrade Djoka Vlajković Foundation Award for Best Article in the Social Sciences and Humanities* *Aiello, G. and Woodhouse, A. (2016). “When corporations come to define the visual politics of gender: The case of Getty Images”. Journal of Language and Politics, special issue “Multimodality, Politics and Ideology” (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen, Eds.), 15(3), 352-368. *Research cited in The New York Times* *Kennedy, H., Hill, R., Aiello, G. and Allen, W. (2016). “The work that visualisation conventions do”. Information, Communication & Society, AoIR special issue “Imagining the Internet” (Megan Finn and Ben Light, Eds.), 19(6), 715-735. Aiello, G. and Tosoni, S. (2016). “Going about the city: Methods and methodologies for urban communication research–Introduction”, International Journal of Communication, special section “Going About the City: Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research”, 10(2016), 1252-1262. Dickinson, G. and Aiello, G. (2016). “Being through there matters: Materiality, bodies, and movement in urban communication research”. International Journal of Communication, special section “Going About the City: Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research”, 10(2016), 1294- 1308. Aiello, G. and Pauwels, L. (2014). “Special issue: Difference and globalization”. Visual Communication, special issue “Difference and Globalization”, 13(3), 275-285. Aiello, G. and Dickinson, G. (2014). “Beyond authenticity: A visual-material analysis of locality in the global redesign of Starbucks stores”. Visual Communication, special issue “Difference and Globalization”, 13(3), 303-321. Aiello, G. (2013). “Generiche differenze: La comunicazione visiva della soggettività lesbica nell’archivio fotografico Getty Images”. Studi Culturali, special issue “Visioni del Femminile” (Roberta Sassatelli and Cristina DeMaria, Eds.), anno X, n. 3, 523-548. *Research cited in The New York Times* Aiello, G. (2013). “From wasteland to wonderland: The hypermedia(tiza)tion of urban regeneration in Leeds’ Holbeck Urban Village”. First Monday, special issue “Waves, Bits & Bricks” (Matteo Tarantino and Simone Tosoni, Eds.), 18(11). Aiello, G., Bakshi, S., Bilge, S., Kahaleole Hall, L., Johnston, L. and Pérez, K. (2013). “Here, and not yet here: A dialogue at the intersection of queer, trans and culture”. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, special issue “Out of Bounds? Queer Intercultural Communication” (Karma R. Chávez, Ed.), 6(2), 96-117. Aiello, G. (2013). “Fra abiezione e stilizzazione: Corpi femminili, corpi lesbici e corpi queer nella comunicazione visiva globale”. AG About Gender – Rivista Internazionale di Studi di Genere, special issue “La Teoria Queer e la Costruzione della Realtà Sociale” (Luca Trappolin, Ed.), 2(3), 145-163. Aiello, G. (2012). “All Tögethé® now: The recontextualization of branding and the stylization of diversity in EU public communication”. Social Semiotics, 22(4), 459-477. Aiello, G. (2012). “Confined to the edges: Reflections on visual research in Bologna”. Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society, 24(June 2012), 37-41. Aiello, G. (2012). “The ‘other’ Europeans: The semiotic imperative of style in Euro Visions by Magnum Photos”. Visual Communication, 11(1), 49-77. *NCA Visual Communication Division’s 2012 Outstanding Essay or Chapter Award* Aiello, G. (2011). “From wound to enclave: The visual-material performance of urban renewal in Bologna’s Manifattura delle Arti”. Western Journal of Communication, 75(4), 341-366. [Lead article].

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Aiello, G. and Gendelman, I. (2007). “Seattle’s Pike Place Market (de)constructed: An analysis of tourist narratives about a public space”. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 5(3), 158-185. Thurlow, C. and Aiello, G. (2007). “National pride, global capital: A social semiotic analysis of transnational visual branding in the airline industry”. Visual Communication, 6(3), 305-344. Aiello, G. (2006). “Theoretical advances in critical visual analysis: Perception, ideology, mythologies and social semiotics”. Journal of Visual Literacy, 26(2), 89-102. [Lead article]. Aiello, G. and Thurlow, C. (2006). “Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercultural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme”. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(2), 148-162. Book chapters and encyclopedia entries Aiello, G. (in press for 2022). “Perfect strangers in the city: Stock photography as ambient imagery”. In Gillian Rose (Ed.), Seeing the City Digitally: Reconfiguring Temporalities, Spatialities And Collectivities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Aiello, G. (2020). “Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization”. In Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen (Eds.), Data Visualization in Society. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Aiello, G. (2020). “Visual semiotics: Key concepts and new directions”. In Luc Pauwels and Dawn Mannay (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2nd ed.) (pp. 367-380). London: SAGE. [ISBN: 9781473978003] Tosoni, S. and Aiello, G. (2019). “Methodological approaches in urban media and communication research”. In Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. London: Routledge. [ISBN: 9780415792554] Aiello, G. (2018). “Losing to gain: Balancing style and texture in the Starbucks logo”. In Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and Theo van Leeuwen (Eds.), The Materiality of Writing: A Trace Making Perspective (pp. 195-210). London: Routledge. [ISBN: 9781138679726] Aiello, G. and Tarantino, M. (2017). “Introduction: Communicating the city between the centre and the margins”, in Giorgia Aiello, Matteo Tarantino and Kate Oakley (Eds.), Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions (pp. xiii-xviii). New York: Peter Lang. [ISBN: 9781433137518] Oakley, K. and Aiello, G. (2017). “Afterword: Communication and the city”, in Giorgia Aiello, Matteo Tarantino and Kate Oakley (Eds.), Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions (pp. 201-205). New York: Peter Lang. [ISBN: 9781433137518] Faber McAlister, J. and Aiello, G. (2017). “Everyday utopias, technological dystopias and the failed occupation of the global modern: Dwell Magazine meets Unhappy Hipsters”, in Amber Day (Ed.), DIY Utopia: Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible (pp. 207-226). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. [ISBN: 9781498523899] Aiello, G. and Parry, K. (2015). “Aesthetics, Political”, in Gianpietro Mazzoleni (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Volume I (pp. 11-16). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. [ISBN: 9781118541555] Gendelman, I., Dobrowolsky, T. and Aiello, G. (2010). “Urban Archives: Public memories of everyday places”, in Jeff Hou (Ed.), Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (pp. 181-193). London: Routledge. [ISBN: 9780415779661] *Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Book Prize 2012* Gendelman, I. and Aiello, G. (2010). “Faces of places: Façades as global communication in Post-Eastern Bloc urban renewal”, in Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (Eds.), Semiotic Landscapes: Language, 4 of 21

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Image, Space (pp. 256-273). London: Continuum. [ISBN: 9781847061829] Aiello, G. (2007). “The appearance of diversity: Visual design and the public communication of EU identity”, in Jessica Bain and Martin Holland (Eds.), European Union Identity: Perceptions from Asia and Europe (pp. 147-181). Baden-Baden: Nomos. [ISBN: 9783832930547] Invited short articles Schafran, A., Aiello, G., Enright, T., Le Moigne, Y. (2017). “Rendering a redeveloped France”. Metropolitics: An Online Journal of Public Scholarship About Cities and Urban Politics. Aiello, G. (2016). “Taking stock”. Ethnography Matters. Aiello, G. (2016). “Researching the urban as a human endeavour”. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. Aiello, G. (2016). “A visual-material approach to the city”. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. Online resources “Taking Stock: Can News Images Be Generic?”. Digital Methods Summer School 2017. Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. “A Critical Genealogy of the Getty Images Lean In Collection: Researching the Feminist Politics of Stock Photography Across Representation, Circulation and Recontextualization”. Digital Methods Winter School 2016. Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. *Research cited in The New York Times* “MeCoDEMvis: Images of Media, Conflict and Democratisation” (a 15-minute video by Giorgia Aiello, Katy Parry and Tim Wege). Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM), 2015. Reports and working papers Parry, K. and Aiello, G. (2015). “Culture and democratisation”. Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Working Paper Series. Aiello, G. and La Torre, C. (Eds.) (2010). “The Europe of minorities: putting to use the European Courts’ human rights case law on LGBT people and migrants”. European Commission Education, Audovisual and Culture Executive Agency. Book reviews Aiello, G. (2015). Review of Media and the City: Difference and Cosmopolitanism (by Myria Georgiou). Media, Culture and Society, 37(2). Aiello, G. (2013). Review of Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space, and Globalization in Corporate Advertising (by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson). Sociologica, 2/2013. Aiello, G. (2010). Review of Mobilities (by John Urry). European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(1). Aiello, G. (2005). Review of Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society in Cyberspace (edited by Douglas Schuler and Peter Day). New Media & Society, 7(4). Other writing Aiello, G. (2015). “Manifattura delle Arti”. Collaboration with GALLLERIAPIÙ and Amsterdam-based visual artist collective Felix & Mumford for the project CodeX – Mapping Manifattura delle Arti in Bologna. Bologna, September 2015. Aiello, G. (2004). “Conversazione politica attraverso un murale: Il September Project a Seattle”. Politicaonline.it, October 2004.

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SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS

Co-I, “Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics”. AHRC Standard Grant (£731,819). With Chris Anderson (PI, University of Leeds) and Helen Kennedy (Co-I, University of Sheffield). External partners: Financial Times, BBC, Trinity Mirror/Reach. October 2020 – September 2023. Co-convener, Sadler Seminar Series “Using Scenography to Understand the Experience of Urban Space” (with Joslin McKinney and Gehan Selim). Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds (£4000). 2020 – 2021. Co-convener, Sadler Seminar Series “Migration and the City: Imagining and Making Urban Lives” (with Gabriella Alberti and Helen Kim). Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds (£2000). 2019 – 2020. PI, Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG), grant agreement no. 277039. Project: “Globalization, Visual Communication, Difference”. Total award €100,000. March 2011 – March 2015. National Communication Association Visual Communication Division’s Outstanding Essay or Chapter Award. 2012. Urban Communication Research Incentive Grant. Urban Communication Foundation ($1000). 2010. National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division’s Outstanding Dissertation Award. 2008. University of Washington Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Professions ($15000 equivalent). 2006 – 2007. Simpson Center for the Humanities Summer Residency Dissertation Fellowship ($3000). 2006. Ames Endowment grant for doctoral research and fieldwork on cultural diversity. Department of Communication, University of Washington ($500). 2006 – 2007. University of Washington Huckabay Teaching Fellowship ($15000 equivalent). 2005. European Union Center of Excellence Summer Research Grant, University of Washington ($4000). 2004.

CURRENT AND PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS

Co-Investigator of “Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics” (genericvisuals.leeds.ac.uk), funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant. Through a combination of production, semiotic and audience research, this project investigates the role that generic visuals like stock photos and simple data visualizations, which are increasingly found in news media, play in bringing groups of people together around shared interests and concerns, activating citizens to care (or not) about particular issues, making possible (or not) various forms of engagement, including democratic decision-making, and in spreading or inhibiting the spread of disinformation. The project involves a team of senior researchers with equal input (Chris Anderson, Helen Kennedy and myself), a post-doctoral researcher (Camilla Mørk Røstvik), and external partners and collaborators such as the Financial Times, the BBC, Reach Media, Full Fact and Public Data Lab. 2020 – 2023. External expert for “Visualizing ‘Diversity’ in Higher Education: Looking Beyond the Image” funded by the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern (PI: Professor Crispin Thurlow; Co-I: Professor Patricia Purtschert). This project brought together established and emerging scholars from Gender Studies (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung) and Language and Communication (Department of

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English) focusing on the intersection of visual regimes and gender norms in universities’ institutionalized diversity discourse. This was a collaboration with the University of Bern’s Office for Gender Equality, and was conducted as a form of engaged or “action” research with direct and immediate application. 2018 – 2019. Research team member of “MeCoDEM – Media, Conflict and Democratisation” (PI: Professor Katrin Voltmer), a project that investigates the role of traditional media and ICTs in conflicts that accompany and follow transitions from authoritarian rule to more democratic forms of government in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa (funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme). Worked with political communication scholars on the role and significance of images and expressive practices in both protest and activism and strategic communication. Produced four short films in collaboration with a professional filmmaker, using images from Creative Commons sources to visually narrate key democratisation struggles and demands across the project’s four countries. 2015 – 2017. Project advisory board member and research article co-author in “Seeing Data: Are good big data visualisations possible?” (PI: Professor Helen Kennedy), a project that examined the increasing significance of visual representations of data in everyday life and aims to understand how people make sense of data visualizations (funded by the AHRC Big Data Scheme). Worked with sociologists and digital media scholars on social semiotic approaches to data visualization. 2014 – 2016. Principal Investigator of the individual research project, “Globalization, Visual Communication, Difference”, funded by European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant (Post-doctoral researcher: Dr Anna Woodhouse). This project examined the significance and profitability of (social and cultural) difference, rather than sameness, in global(izing) marketplaces of visual communication, including branding, commercial imagery and urban promotional culture. The project generated six journal articles, a field-defining special issue of the international academic journal Visual Communication, a co-authored book with SAGE, a number of invitations to speak internationally, and several conference papers, panels and symposia. 2011 – 2015. Co-director of the Urban Archives, a project exploring communication in public space through visual data and metadata collection, and public access digital archiving (in collaboration with the University of Washington Library Digital Collections). The project received extensive media coverage and was featured in the University of Wisconsin Internet Scout Report and an article on exemplary digital humanities projects in American Quarterly. 2005 – 2010. Research team member in “The Cultures of Flying”, a Boeing Payloads Concept Center and UW Department of Anthropology research project on human-centered flying (PI: Professor Miriam Kahn). Worked with anthropologists, engineers, and communication scholars to design an ethnographic study integrating considerations about the types of social interaction, media, material and sensorial phenomena, technologies, and intercultural issues that shape people’s experiences on airplanes. 2006.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Keynotes “The Politics of Texture in Contemporary Capitalism”. Keynote at 9ICoM – 9th International Conference on Multimodality, “Multimodality – Moving the Theory Forward”. University of Southern Denmark, August 2018. “Communicating the city”. Opening keynote at the early career researchers conference “City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities, and Textualities”. University of Bern, December 2017. “Fra abiezione e stilizzazione: corpi femminili, corpi lesbici e corpi queer nella comunicazione visiva globale”. Keynote in the public conference “Corpi Eccentrici. Bellezza, normatività e rappresentazione”. Gender Bender International Festival. Bologna (Italy), November 2011. 7 of 21

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Invited research talks in the UK and internationally Participant and speaker in the invitation-only CDA Meeting 2020, “Critical Discourse Studies Today & Tomorrow: Problem Orientation, Social Challenges and Discursive Dynamics”, organized by the Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, and the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University. University of Liverpool, June 2020 (postponed to June 2022). Invited presentation and interview about Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture (with Katy Parry) in the Visual Politics Research Program led by Professor Roland Bleiker, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, May 2021. Invited research methods workshop “Researching Visual Communication: Methods for understanding images in media culture” (with Katy Parry), White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership’s Data, Communications and New Technologies Pathway, March 2021. “Studying the visual: A media and communication perspective”. With Katy Parry. Invited research seminar, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), October 2019. “The visual-material politics of urban change”. Invited speaker in the interdisciplinary symposium “Signs of Urban Change”. Birkbeck, University of London, October 2019. “Notes on visual genericity: A social semiotic approach”. Invited research seminar, Centre for Multimodal Communication. Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, August 2019. “Visual Communication Research Methods”. Invited speaker in the University of Leeds/Tow Center Research Methods Workshop. Columbia University, June 2019. “Taking stock: Researching generic images across representation, circulation and recontextualization”. Invited speaker in the seminar series on “critical inquiry with and about the digital” hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, May 2019. “Generic Images Matter”. Invited speaker in the Digital | Visual | Cultural workshop, organized by Professor Gillian Rose. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, June 2018. “All Tögethé® now: Visualizing and stylizing diversity in EU public communication”. Invited research lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS). University of Bern, December 2017. Invited participant, project-pitcher and lecturer, Digital Methods Summer School, “Get the Picture. Digital Methods for Visual Research”. Project title: “Taking stock: Can news images be generic?”. Title of Masterclass for the Netherlands School for Research in Media Studies (RMeS): “Taking stock: Why generic images matter”. Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, June 2017. Participant and speaker in the invitation-only final workshop for the four-year research project “Symbols and Myths in European Integration”, led by Professor Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen) and Dr Kennet Lynggaard (Roskilde University). Title of presentation: “Cities and the European project: A critical perspective on the European Capital of Culture”. Centre for European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, June 2017. Invited participant in the international workshop “News Images and Icons in the Digital Age: Photojournalism in Transition” closing the two-year research project “You Must Remember This: Iconic Photographs and Collective Memory” led by Akiba Cohen, Sandrine Boudana and Paul Frosh. Title of presentation: “The personal as professional: Stock photographers’ perspectives on global image banks”. Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2017. Invited presenter, ECREA panel “Post-nationalist Europe? Cosmo Chic and Bare Life”. Title of presentation: “Imagining European identity as diversity or cosmopolitanism? Insights from the European Capital of 8 of 21

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Culture”. International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, June 2016. “Il femminismo secondo Getty Images: Rappresentazione, circolazione e ricontestualizzazione delle immagini stock”. Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Università di Bologna, April 2016. Invited participant and project-pitcher, Digital Methods Winter School, “Otherwise Engaged. Critical Analytics and the New Meanings of Engagement Online”. With honorarium for travel and accommodation. Project title: “A critical genealogy of the Getty Images Lean In Collection: Researching the feminist politics of stock photography across representation, circulation, and recontextualization”. Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, January 2016. Invited visiting scholar, Visual Studies and Media Culture Research Group. With honorarium for travel, accommodation and subsistence. Titles of talks: “A visual-material approach to the city: The urban built environment as communication” (MA course Visual Sociology and Anthropology); “‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: The Getty Images Lean In Collection and the feminist politics of stock photography” (UG course Theory of Visual Communication); “Taking stock: Changing aesthetics and photographers’ perspectives in the global visual content industry” (research seminar for staff and doctoral students). Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, November 2015. Invited expert on visual analysis methods, “Comparative Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies” workshop for postgraduate students. Title of talk: “Images between text and context: Theories and methods for visual analysis”. Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, July 2015. Senior expert, ICA Young Scholars Preconference on Visual Methods. Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico, May 2015. “Taking stock: An investigation of photographers’ perspectives on the global visual content industry”. Department of English, University of Bern, May 2015. “Analysing protest imagery: The immediate, mediated and mediatized”. With Katy Parry. Invited research seminar for the Visual Methods Special Interest Group, University of Bradford, April 2015. “‘I would not have guessed they’d take that bloody picture’: An investigation of photographers’ perspectives on stock photography”. Brown bag research talk sponsored by the School of Media Studies, New School for Public Engagement, May 2014. “Your body is a sociolinguistic playground: resemiotization, recontextualization and stylization in feminist art”. Paper for the invitation-only roundtable conference “The Sociolinguistics of Art”, organized by Professor Adam Jaworski and Professor Christopher Hutton. School of English, University of Hong Kong, January 2014. “Taking stock: towards a social semiotics of image banks and global visual communication”. Invited talk for the MA in Global Communication. School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 2014. “All Tögethé® now: branding, identity and diversity in EU public communication”. Invited research seminar sponsored by the Centre for European Research. University of Gothenburg, November 2013. “Fra abiezione e stilizzazione: corpi femminili, corpi lesbici e corpi queer nella comunicazione visiva globale”. Research seminar sponsored by the Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione. Università di Bologna, November 2012. “Uno sguardo globale sulla città: ambiente urbano e comunicazione”. Invited research seminar sponsored by the Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Bologna, June 2012. “Visions of Europe: Visual Communication, Identity, and the European Union”. Invited lecture sponsored by the Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici. Università di Milano Statale, February 2012.

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“Differenza e identità di genere in un’icona giovanile globale”. Invited talk sponsored by the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione for the conference “La costruzione dell’identità di genere in adolescenza”. Università di Bologna, June 2011. “The ‘other’ Europeans: The semiotic imperative of style in Euro Visions by Magnum Photos”. Public lecture sponsored by the Comparative History of Ideas program, the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of Communication. University of Washington, November 2010. “The ‘other’ Europeans: The semiotic imperative of style in Euro Visions by Magnum Photos”. Public lecture sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Colorado State University, November 2010. “Critical visual analysis: interrogating form, exploring context, questioning practices”. Department of Communication Critical Inquiry Symposium, “Critical Inquiry: Why’s, How’s and Where To’s”. University of Washington, November 2006. “Glimpses of the new Europe? Imag(in)ing European identity in visual discourse”. Invited speaker at the Second Workshop organized by the Network of European Studies Centres in Asia (NESCA), The EU’s new identity and its perception in Asia: Responding to the 7th Framework Programme “Europe in the World’’. With full travel, registration and accommodation funding. The National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand). July 2006. Invited talk about the film Kagemusha for the Akira Kurosawa Film Festival sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Washington. Winter 2000, Seattle, WA. Invited talks at the University of Leeds “Other meanings: The social semiotic multimodality of self-representations by migrants and their supporters” (with Elisabetta Adami). Who/What is a “Good”/“Bad” Migrant? – Sadler Seminar Series, Leeds Humanities Research Institute. April 2017. “Communicating the City”. The Moveable Feast Series on Public Space, Leeds Humanities Research Institute. March 2017. Invited discussant of the presentation by Professor Warren Magnusson (University of Victoria), “Seeing Like a City”. A New Politics of the City – Sadler Seminar Series, Leeds Humanities Research Institute. November 2016. “‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: The Getty Images Lean In Collection and the feminist politics of stock photography”. FAHACS Research Seminars (organized by Professor Griselda Pollock), School of Fine Arts, History of Art and Cultural Studies. October 2015. “Globalization, Visual Communication, Difference”. Invited talk for the international workshop “Competing Globalities”, organized by Dr Vlad Strukov with support from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Leeds Russian Centre. April 2013. “The city as communication: mediation, mediatization, and the urban built environment”. Research seminar. Institute of Communications Studies. December 2011. Research papers and panels at competitive conferences and symposia (past 10 years only) “Mixing methods to examine the ‘everyday’ aesthetic and affective experience of #EverydayAfrica on Instagram”. Refereed extended abstract, with Katy Parry and Chamil Rathnayake. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2021, Online. “The Everyday Africa photography project as a challenge to iconicity and photojournalistic conventions”. Refereed paper, with Katy Parry. ECREA TWG Visual Cultures Conference, Ljubljana (Slovenia), September 2019. 10 of 21

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“Taking stock: Why generic images matter”. Paper part of the refereed paper session “Recovering Photography’s Public Voice: History, Aesthetics, Politics”. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2019, Washington DC (United States). “Exposing authoritarianism and mobilising resistance to personalist rule: Political cartoons in Serbia's daily Politika and weekly NIN”. Paper part of the refereed panel session “Images, performances and dissent: The political aesthetics of communicating democratisation conflicts”, with Aleksandra Krstić and Nebojsa Vladisavljević. Communication and Democracy section, ECREA 2018, Lugano (Switzerland). “Generic visuals: stock photos and data visualisations in digital journalism”. Refereed paper, with C.W. Anderson and Helen Kennedy. Media Industries and Cultural Production section, ECREA 2018, Lugano (Switzerland). “Visual ideologies in the mediatized representation of young people and technology”. Refereed paper, with Crispin Thurlow and Lara Portmann. “Visualizing (in) the New Media” conference, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), November 2017. “Protest and visibility in times of democratisation: A visual framing analysis of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade’s television coverage”. Refereed paper, with Aleksandra Krstić and Katy Parry. Communication and Democracy section, ECREA 2016, Prague (Czech Republic). “The ideological work that visualisation conventions do”. Paper part of the panel session “Datavis Politics”. With Helen Kennedy. Culture and Politics of Data Visualisation: A one-day conference, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, October 2016. “A visual-material approach to the city: The urban built environment as a key form/force of mediation and mediatization”. Paper part of the roundtable session “The urban as emergent key concept for media theory: ambiguities, certainties and stakes”. Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division, ICA 2016, Fukuoka (Japan). “Powerful stock: The contradictory visual regime of contemporary commercial photography”. Paper part of the refereed paper session “The paradoxes of photographic power”. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2016, Fukuoka (Japan). “Pride, protest and performance: Picturing the Pride Parade on Serbian television”. Refereed paper, with Aleksandra Krstić and Katy Parry. Political Studies Association (PSA) Media and Politics Group Conference, University of Chester, November 2015. “Talking Mats as Visual Method”. Refereed paper, with William Allen, Rosemary Hill and Helen Kennedy. 4th International Visual Methods Conference, University of Brighton, September 2015. “What can a visualisation do? Power and the visual representation of data”. Paper part of the panel session “Visualising Data”. With Helen Kennedy, Rosemary Lucy Hill and William Allen. Data Power Conference, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, June 2015. “‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Popular appeals of empowerment and authenticity in Getty Images’ Lean In Collection”. Paper part of the refereed paper session “The popular cultures of digital photography: Practices, aesthetics, institutions”. Popular Communication Division, ICA 2015, San Juan (Puerto Rico). “Losing to gain: Balancing style and texture in the Starbucks logo”. Paper presented at the symposium “Making Traces: A multidisciplinary approach to graphic tracemaking”. University of Southern Denmark, November 2014. “‘Mother of God, chase Putin out’: Feminist carnivalesque and the disruptive visual practices of Pussy Riot and Femen”. With Katy Parry (first author). International conference “Visual In-Sights: Theory, Method, Practice”. Newcastle University, June 2014.

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“Globalization and the visual: Key tensions and resources”. Position paper part of the refereed high-density panel session “Looking backwards, looking forward: Views on Visual Communication Studies”. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2014, Seattle (USA). “The Moscow Masque: Embodying dissent in sacred spaces”. Paper part of the refereed paper session “Visual activism(s): Tactics, technologies and styles”. With Katy Parry (first author). Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2014, Seattle (USA). “Thoroughfare, speedway, highway, streetscape: the urban performances of Seattle’s Aurora Avenue”. Refereed Paper. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA. June 2013, London (UK). “Iconophilia in the public sphere: Embracing the visual in big ‘P’ and small ‘p’ politics”. Paper part of the refereed paper session “The spectre of the spectacle: How to address the haunting anxieties around the visual image in political communication?”. With Katy Parry (first author). Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2013, London (UK). “Light touch, heavy capital: urban landscape and the European Capital of Culture in Turku and Tallinn 2011”. Media and the City TWG panel, ECREA 2012, Istanbul (Turkey). “Being local, European, and global: the visual communication of Turku and Tallinn as 2011 European Capitals of Culture”. 9th International Conference “Crossroads in Cultural Studies”. July 2012, Paris (France). “Globalization, visual communication, difference”. ICA regional conference “Communicating in a World of Norms: Information and Communication in Contemporary Globalization Issues”. March 2012, Lille (France). “The urban built environment as global(ist) communication: concepts, methods, critique”. First workshop of the Media and the City temporary working group (ECREA). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, February 2012. “Once the industrial heartland, now the coolest corner of Leeds: the visual-material performance of lifestyle in Holbeck Urban Village”. Paper part of refereed paper session “Bent toward some flashing scene: performing, marketing, and visualizing revitalized urban spaces”. Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA) 2011, New Orleans (USA). “Dissent for capital: the aesthetics of difference in the global(ist) proliferation of the Che Guevara image”. Paper part of refereed paper session “Globalization, visual communication, difference: Visualizations of diversity, dissent and locality in global capitalism”. Visual Communication Division, NCA 2011, New Orleans (USA). “The city as visual media: local, transnational and global identities in the branding and public communication of the European Capital of Culture”. Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA). January 2011, University of Salford, Manchester (UK). Conference panels organized Roundtable session “Representation (still) matters”. With Nancy Thumim. Popular Communication Division, ICA 2016. Refereed paper session “The popular cultures of digital photography: Practices, aesthetics, institutions”. With Paul Frosh. Popular Communication Division, ICA 2015. Refereed paper session “Visual activism(s): Tactics, technologies and styles”. With Katy Parry. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2014. Refereed panel session “Looking backwards, looking forward: Views on Visual Communication Studies”. With Kevin Barnhurst. Visual Communication Studies Division, ICA 2014. Refereed paper session “The spectre of the spectacle: How to address the haunting anxieties around the visual image in political communication?”. With Katy Parry. Visual Communication Studies Division, 12 of 21

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ICA 2013. Refereed paper session “Globalization, visual communication, difference: Visualizations of diversity, dissent and locality in global capitalism”. Visual Communication Division, NCA 2011. Refereed paper session “Tastes like globalization: Locality for global capital in (con)texts of food consumption”. With Greg Dickinson. Critical and Cultural Studies Division, NCA 2010. Refereed paper session “Queer politics and the (re)deployment of difference in advanced capitalism”. With Karma R. Chávez. Co-sponsored by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division and the GLBTQ Communication Studies Division, NCA 2010.

ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS

Conferences and pre-conferences Co-organizer of the ICA Preconference “Interventions in the Practice of Visual Communication Research – Young Scholars Preconference”. San Diego (United States), May 2017. Co-organizer of the ICA Preconference “Communicating the Power of Visuals: ICA Young Scholars Preconference on Conceptualizing and Communicating Visual Communication Research Projects”. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka (Japan), June 2016. Main organizer of the two-day international conference “Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media”. With the Urban Communication Foundation and the ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group. University of Leeds, June 2013. Public lectures, workshops and symposia Public lecture “Modes, meanings and boundaries: Questions and namings” and “Research Workshop on Multimodality for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers” by Professor Gunther Kress (UCL) and Professor Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark). With Elisabetta Adami. University of Leeds, May 2017. Visual and Digital Cultures Research Group’s half-day symposium and launch event for the Visual Communication special issue “Difference and Globalization” with Professor Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark) and Professor Luc Pauwels (University of Antwerp). University of Leeds, November 2014. Visual and Digital Cultures Research Group’s half-day symposium on “Visual Communication and Globalization” with Professor David Machin (Örebro University) as guest speaker. With Katy Parry. University of Leeds, September 2012. Visual and Digital Cultures Research Group’s half-day symposium on “Practice-based methods for researching the visual and digital in media and communications” with Mandy Rose (University of the West England, Bristol) and Dr Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London) as guest speakers. With Helen Kennedy. University of Leeds, May 2012.

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

Editorial boards:  Communication Theory. 2020 – present.  Visual Communication Quarterly. 2019 – present.  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 2019 – present.  Visual Communication. 2018 – present.  International Journal of Cultural Studies. 2018 – present. 13 of 21

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 Social Semiotics. 2013 – present.  Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa. 2012 – present.  Women’s Studies in Communication. 2013 – 2019.  Western Journal of Communication. 2010 – 2016. Leadership and advisory roles:  Chair (2015 – 2017) and Vice Chair (2013 – 2015) of the International Communication Association Visual Communication Studies Division.  Board Member, International Communication Association. 2015 – 2017.  Advisory Group Member, ECREA Temporary Working Group/Section “Media & the City”. 2016 – present.  Advisory Board, Urban Communication Foundation. 2010 – 2015.  Advisory Board, Centro Europeo Studi sulla Discriminazione (CESD). 2010 – 2011.  Student Affairs Committee Member. International Communication Association. 2004 – 2006. Reviewer of research grants and awards:  External Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Humanities and Social Sciences division research project application. 2020.  Independent International Expert, Paris Region Fellowship Programme (ParisRegionFP) an EU co- funded Marie Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action programme to strengthen research capacity and international influence of the Paris Region in France. 2020.  Remote Referee, ERC Consolidator Grant. Culture and Cultural Production Panel (SH5), European Research Council. 2018.  Peer Reviewer for the ESRC EU-India Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EqUIP) call for funding. 2018.  Reviewer for the NCA Visual Communication Division’s Outstanding Essay or Chapter Award. 2013. Reviewer of book proposals and manuscripts:  SAGE, 2019 (book proposal).  Bloomsbury, 2019 (book manuscript).  Il Mulino, 2017 (chapter in book manuscript). Invited book endorsements:  van Leeuwen, T. (2021). Multimodality and Identity. London and New York: Routledge.  Machin, D. and Ledin, P. (2020). Introduction to Multimodal Analysis (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury.  Veneti, A., Jackson, D., and Lilleker, D. (Eds.) (2019). Visual Political Communication. London: Palgrave MacMillan.  Shumow, M. and Gutsche, Jr., R. E. (2016). News, Neoliberalism, and Miami’s Fragmented Urban Space. Lanham, MA: Lexington. Reviewer for academic journals: Visual Communication, 2013 – present (15 articles reviewed); Visual Communication Quarterly, 2019, 2020, 2021; Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2019, 2020; Journal of Communication, 2019; Journalism, 2019; Discourse, Context & Media, 2019; Convergence, 2019; International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018, 2019; Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2018, 2019; Television and New Media, 2015, 2019; Public Relations Inquiry, 2018; SAGE Open, 2018; International Journal of Communication, 2018;

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Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2018; African Journalism Studies, 2017; Women’s Studies in Communication, 2013, 2014, 2017; Popular Communication, 2016; Big Data & Society, 2016; Sociologica, 2015; African Studies, 2014; Social Semiotics, 2011, 2013; Western Journal of Communication, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013; Space and Culture, 2012; Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2011; Journal of Public Relations Research, 2010; Popular Music & Society, 2010; European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2008. Validation and review of degree programmes:  Revalidation panel member. Media, Culture & Identity undergraduate degree programme, Roehampton University. 2018. Invited external referee for professorial promotion applications:  Bournemouth University. 2021. Reviewer for conferences:  ICA (Visual Communication Studies Division; Global Communication and Social Change Division; Popular Communication Division; Making and Doing Program; Theme Sessions).  ECREA (Media & The City Temporary Working Group; Gender and Communication Division).  NCA (Visual Communication Division; Critical and Cultural Studies Division).  WSCA (Intercultural Communication Interest Group).  Thematic Committee, “Visual Worlds: how can information sciences contribute to visual studies?”. ICA regional conference “Communicating in a World of Norms: Information and Communication in Contemporary Globalization Issues” (Lille, France, March 2012).

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Member of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures Research and Innovation Committee. 2017 – 2019. Member of the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications Research Ethics Committee. 2015 – 2016. Member of the School of Media and Communication Management Team. 2017 – 2019. Chair of the School of Media and Communication Research Committee. 2017 – 2019. Member of the School PhD Scholarships Committee. 2017 – 2019. Member of the Institute of Communication Studies Teaching and Student Education Committee. 2011 – 2015. Research group co-convener: Visual and Digital Cultures Research Group (2011 – 2016), Visual Media and Communication Research Group (2017 – 2019). Member of hiring panels: School of Geography (Teaching Fellow), School of Sociology and Social Policy (Post- doctoral Researcher), School of Media and Communication (Post-doctoral Researcher in Cultural Policy; Lecturer in Race and Media; Associate Professor in Health/Science/Environmental Communication; Associate Professor/Full Professor in Media and Politics). Member of promotion panels: Business School (Grade 9 and Grade 8); School of Politics and International Studies (Grade 9); School of Music (Grade 9); School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Grade 8); Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre (Grade 8); School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (Grade 8).

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor (University of Bologna) 78903 - Visual Communication (MA module, in English). 2021 72514 - Sociologia della Cultura (undergraduate module, in Italian). 2021. Associate Professor (University of Leeds) COMM5160 Critical Studies in Visual Communication (MA module). 2019. COMM5310 Media, Culture and Globalization (MA core module). 2017 – 2018. Guest lectures in COMM1970 Introduction to Communication Theory, COMM2811 Thinking Photographically, COMM2910 Communication Research Methods, COMM3250 Feminism, Media and Identity, COMM5600 Dissertation and Research Methods. PhD Seminar on researching the visual. 2018. Lecturer (University of Leeds) COMM5310 Media, Culture and Globalization (MA module). 2010 – 2016. COMM5160 Critical Studies in Visual Communication (MA module). 2011 – 2016. COMM3180 International Communication (undergraduate module). 2010 – 2015. COMM5210 Communications and Global Change (MA module). 2010. Guest lectures in COMM2811 Thinking Photographically, COMM1970 Introduction to Communication Theory, COMM3250 Feminism, Media and Identity, COMM5660 Journalism: Theory into Practice, COMM1200 Academic Skills and Contemporary Issues. PhD Seminar on researching the visual. 2011, 2013, 2016. Assistant Professor (Colorado State University) SPCM 646 Media Theory (core graduate seminar). Fall 2009. SPCM 347 Visual Rhetoric. Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009. SPCM 342 Critical Media Studies. Spring 2009. Pre-doctoral Instructor (University of Washington) CHID 270 Communication Matters: The Material History of Communication Practices (course curriculum co- designed and co-taught with Prof. Phillip Thurtle). Spring 2006. CHID 270 Photography: Theoretical Reflections and Ethnographic Applications (original course curriculum designed and taught for the Comparative History of Ideas program). Winter 2006. COM 495 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Visual Communication (course created, designed and taught as part of the “Huckabay Teaching Fellowship”; received a letter of praise from the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences for top student ratings earned in the course). Autumn 2005. COM 300 Basic Concepts of New Media (Evening Degree Program). Spring 2004. Teaching Assistant (University of Washington) CHID 110 The Question of Human Nature. Autumn 2006 and 2007. HUM 203 The World in Motion: Animation in Theory and Practice (Prof. Stephanie Andrews and Prof. Phillip Thurtle). Interdisciplinary Danz Course in the Humanities. Spring 2007. COM 321 Communication in International Relations (Prof. Nancy Rivenburgh). Spring 2005. HUM 102 Eye and Mind: Art, Science and Perception (Prof. Elizabeth Rutledge and Prof. Phillip Thurtle). Interdisciplinary Danz Course in the Humanities. Winter 2005. 16 of 21

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COM 428 Asian Media Systems (Prof. Tony Chan). Winter 2004. COM 466 Digital Journalism (Prof. Tony Chan). Winter 2003. COM 300 Basic Concepts of New Media (Dr. Aaron Delwiche). Spring 2003. COM 201 Introduction to Communication (Prof. David Domke). Autumn 2002, 2003, 2004. Guest lectures and workshops Università di Bologna Laurea Magistrale in Semiotica  78905 Semiotics of Conflict. Lecture title: “Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation: An analysis of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade television coverage”. 2017.  28392 Semiotica dei Consumi. Lecture titles:  “Capire l’importanza delle immagini stock: Strutture, pratiche e significati di un genere comunicativo globale”. 2017.  28392 Semiotica dei Consumi. Lecture title: “Non puoi essere ciò che non vedi: La comunicazione della differenza sessuale e di genere nella fotografia stock di Getty Images”. 2015. Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione  27322 Analisi della Comunicazione Visiva (with honorarium). Lecture titles:  “Dall’autentico al locale: design e comunicazione visiva nei nuovi negozi Starbucks”. 2013.  “Uno sguardo globale sulla città: ambiente urbano e comunicazione”. 2012.  “La semiotica delle immagini dell’altra Europa nelle foto dell’agenzia Magnum”. 2012. University of Washington Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences  Urban Communication: Language, Image, Space. Exploration seminar in Paris with Department of Anthropology. Led workshop and counter-tourism exercise (with honorarium). September 2012.  BISMCS 471 Visual Communication. Lecture title: “Understanding visual-material communication: locality in the redesign of Starbucks stores” (with honorarium). Autumn 2011. Department of Communication  COM 210 The Tourist Gaze: Understanding Global Communication (discovery seminar for incoming freshmen). Created and led counter-tourism research exercise (with honorarium). 2007.  COM 502 Communication Scholarship and Public Life. Spoke about collaborative and public scholarship among graduate students. 2007.  COM 470 Discourse: Analyzing Talk and Texts. Lecture title: “The Visual Culture of Words: Typography as Connotation, Metaphor and Affect”. 2006.  COM 300 Basic Concepts of New Media/COM 301 Navigating the Information Networks. Lecture title: “The Evaluation of Web Design: The Web as Artifact and Visual Narrative”. 2003, 2004.  COM 466 Digital Journalism. Lecture title: “Digital Photography as Storytelling”. 2003. General Studies  General Studies 105 Writing Ready. Lecture title: “Reading the City: Collecting Data for Urban Archives”. Facilitated the “Fridays on Foot” assignment requiring students to study a neighborhood through field- notes, photography and writing. 2006. 17 of 21

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Other universities  “Sensing the City: An Introduction to Nonverbal Communication”. MA Excursion Seminar in London, University of Bern. 2017.  Postgraduate module Theorising Popular Cultures. Seminar title: “Branding and difference” (with honorarium). MA programme in Popular Cultures, University of Hull. 2011.  SOC 395 Urban Visual Anthropology, Lecture title: “The Visual Culture of Words: Typography”. St. Martin’s University. 2008.  İzzeddin Çalışlar’s course Designing and Analyzing Campaigns. Spoke about the visual communication of European integration and the public communication of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture. Kadir Has University. 2007.  Student-originated Software Program. Lecture title: “Archiving Urban Texts”. The Evergreen State College. 2006.

SUPERVISION, EVALUATION & MENTORSHIP

Doctoral supervision PhD supervision (completed) Ruxandra Lupu. “Home movie 4.0: the role of aesthetics in rethinking the Sicilian home movie archive” (co- supervisor), 2020. Sally Osei-Appiah. “Media representations of women politicians: The cases of Ghana and Nigeria” (main supervisor), 2020. Ana Stojiljkovic. “Election campaigns and the construction of collective identities: Cases of Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina” (co-supervisor; Dr Stojiljkovic currently works as an election campaign communications consultant), 2017. Kristina Karvelyte. “Making a creative city with Chinese characteristics: Perspectives from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei” (co-supervisor; Dr Karvelyte is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Disaster Management at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan), 2017. Toussaint Nothias. “Beyond Afro-pessimism? British and French print media discourse on Africa” (co- supervisor; Dr Nothias is currently Associate Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University and Social Science Research Scholar in the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society), 2015. PhD supervision (ongoing) Anna Bailie. “Brexit, incivility, and digital contestation”, Department of Politics, University of York (Member of Thesis Advisory Panel). 2020 – present. Chanapang Pongpiboonkiat. “Social media and the portrayal of ‘Thai women’: The case of women in Thailand’s military forces” (co-supervisor). 2019 – present. Joey Chan. “The digital, multi-channel construction of female subjectivities by brands in social media platforms” (main supervisor). 2017 – present.

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Doctoral examination PhD external examiner Danica Jovanovic. “Multimodal Dialogue and Photographic Style on Social Media”. Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. August 2019. PhD internal examiner Michael Tasseron (School of Media and Communication). “Comparative representations of culpability in the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza”, 2019. Colin Robert Alexander (Institute of Communications Studies). “Public diplomacy in Central America: The rise of the People’s Republic of China”, 2013. Will Turner (School of Modern Languages and Cultures). “Language ideologies and the BBC Voices website: Hypermodal and practice-oriented perspectives”, 2011. PhD transfer examiner Elysia Lechelt. “What is culture for in everyday cities? The case of Calgary and Leeds”. 2017. Runze Ding. “Gay identity and digital media in China: How do Chinese gay males negotiate and (re)present their identities in the digital age?”. 2016. Mario Álvarez Fuentes, “How do ideas and performances relate in politics? An interpretative approach to politicians’ metamorphoses”. 2015. Chris Hladowski. “Diasporic music, Islam, and the negotiation of difference: Towards an understanding of musical creativity, identity and cultural diversity”, 2015. Sarah Weston. “Performing political voice: the practice of collective voice with young people towards a politics of how voice feels”, 2015. Naomi Bolser. Practice-based doctoral project on women’s archival filmmaking, 2013. Yanling Yang. “Film as an instrument of China’s soft power”, 2012. Divya Maharajh. “Feminine experience: Media education and gender representation”, 2010. Jason Vincent A. Cabañes. “Through migrant lenses: Indians, Koreans, and the crisis of voice in multicultural, mediated Manila”, 2010. Undergraduate and Master’s theses and dissertations Over 80 MA and 50 UG dissertations supervised. University of Leeds, 2010 – present. Hannah Werntz, MA. Department of Communication Studies. Served as student’s inside committee member for her thesis, “Al dente: The postmodern and touristic search for self at the Tuscan table”. Colorado State University, 2008 – 2009. Kate Marler, BA. “Female sexuality as a commodity: a visual analysis of fragrance advertisements in Cosmopolitan”. UW Comparative History of Ideas Senior Thesis. Served as the student’s undergraduate thesis adviser and conference paper co-author. University of Washington, 2006. Mentee research awards Sylvia Su Yeon Wong (2013). “Screening a hidden minority: the representation of the British Chinese on UK television and how this relates to British Chinese youth self-perceptions of cultural identity”. Communications Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Leeds. With my mentorship, this student received the ICS Philip M. Taylor Prize for best undergraduate dissertation.

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J. Edith Fikes (2008). “Building resistance: upcycling and sustainable design/build in Oaxaca, Mexico”. Comparative History of Ideas Senior Thesis, University of Washington. With my mentorship, this project was awarded a $6,000 Mary Gates Research Scholarship. Naraelle Barrows, Arin Delaney, J. Edith Fikes and Ingrid Haftel (2006). University of Washington Library Research Award for the project “Aurora Avenue: Highway culture in transition” completed in my CHID 270 course. Emily Fischer (2005). With my mentorship, this student was awarded a $6,000 Mary Gates Research Scholarship at the University of Washington for her honors research on graffiti and visual urban semiotics.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & MEDIA PRACTICE

 Nominated member, Consiglio di Amministrazione (Executive Board), Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto. 2020 – present.  Invited public talk on my urban communication research for Café Humanité, a philosophical and literary society based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. May 2019. · Collaborated with Amsterdam-based artistic duo Felix & Mumford and art gallery GALLLERIAPIÙ. The artists used excerpts from my 2011 article in the Western Journal of Communication in their installation CodeX – Mapping Manifattura delle Arti in Bologna. They also invited me to write an original piece as part of the project, and we maintained an email exchange on urban regeneration and gentrification that became part of the exhibition and was be included in an artist’s “gentrification kit” produced with funding from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Italy. 2015 – 2017.  Participated in the “Europe for Citizens (2007-2013)” programme “The Europe of minorities: putting to use the European Courts’ human rights case law on LGBT people and migrants”, organized by Arcigay (Italy), Centro Europeo Studi sulla Discriminazione (Italy), Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft – Institut für Menschenrechte (Austria) and Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (UK). Editor of final agency report, and abstract selection committee member and session chair for the closing conference “The Europe of Minorities: Human Rights, Institutions, and Good Practices. Awareness and implementation of LGBT and Migrant Rights” in Bologna (Italy). 2010.  Member of the Fort Collins UniverCity Connections Transit & Mobility Task Group and the Experience Downtown subcommittee, focusing on urban and community planning and including architects, community organizers, public transportation managers and local historians. 2009.  Volunteer photography and visual literacy mentor for urban youth enrolled in the programs offered by Seattle non-profit Youth in Focus. 2006 – 2008.  Collaborated with the Seattle Americorps’ City Year program “Young Heroes” (a leadership development program for middle-schoolers) to develop the community expression event “Values, Identity and Choices”. Developed concept and prompts for a photographic urban scavenger hunt regarding cultural identity in different Seattle neighborhoods. 2006.  Created the “The September Mural”, a permanent display of photographs, poster design work and text regarding the community mural organized at the Seattle Central Library. In collaboration with graphic and print-making artist Kristen Ramirez. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. 2005.  Collaborated with installation artist Iole Alessandrini on visual documentation and creation of book about her and choreographer Jürg Koch’s work “Suggested reading: Untitled”. One of the photographs from this series was published in Sculpture Magazine. 2004 – 2007.  Jury Member at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. 2005. 20 of 21

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· In collaboration with CROW (Creative Revolution on Walls), designed, organized, participated and engaged large public in political community mural painting activities held on September 11, 2004 at the Seattle Central Library for the September Project. Collaborated with Seattle non-profit Youth in Focus by supervising a group of teenage photographers in the documentation of the community mural. 2004. · Worked as a translator, writer and creative assistant to the editor and the director in the Movie Movie production Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia Americana (engl.: Blue Highways: Voices of the Other America), a four-episode documentary for RAI TRE (the Italian national television). The production was invited to the 59th Venice Film Festival. 2002. · Collaboratively produced an exhibit about university students’ life in Bologna under the supervision of Italian photojournalist Mario Rebeschini. The exhibit was presented to the public twice, the second time by the President of the University of Bologna, with media coverage. The photographs and artist statement are now part of the University of Bologna’s Historical Archive. 2001 – 2002. · Founding team member of the DscMediaLab, the first Italian university online channel devoted to the creative integration of digital media. Collaborated in the creation of digital media formats and streaming video, wrote and produced content, taught video editing workshops. 2000 – 2001. · Created the video-documentary Cooperative Living in Seattle with the support of the Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities, University of Washington. 2000.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

“Symbolbilder: Vielfalt geht anders”. Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio), May 2019. “Das ganze Spektrum”. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 2019. “What being transgender looks like, according to stock photography”. The New York Times, October 2018. “These stock photos show masculinity is more than biceps and beer”. Huffington Post, April 2018. “The new dad: Fathers swap footballs for tiaras as stock photos evolve”. Mashable, December 2017. “Stock photo site announces interesting shift in how marketers perceive women”. Women in the World, in association with The New York Times, September 2017. “From sex object to gritty woman: The evolution of women in stock photos”. The New York Times, September 2017. “Felix & Mumford. CodeX”. Juliet Art Magazine, November 2015. “Per una Manifattura del contemporaneo a Bologna”. Juliet Art Magazine, September 2015. “Prima il degrado, ora l’enclave della cultura “alta”: La Manifattura delle Arti raccontata Oltreoceano”. L’Informazione, December 2011. “Marking their Words: In the landscape of ideas, graffiti tells us what we may not want to hear”. Lead article and interview about graffiti and the Urban Archives project in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine, August 2007. “Hitting the streets to research the city”. Feature article about the Urban Archives project in The Daily of the University of Washington, October 2006. “First take: Signs of the times”. Columns, the University of Washington Alumni Magazine, September 2006. “Photos tagged and organized to create the searchable Urban Archives...your city, yo”. Microsoft video webcast Channel 10, July 2006. “Students create urban archive, preserving graffiti for posterity”. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 2005.

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