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Ester Sigillò at the INSANIYYAT Conference in Tunis

20-24 September 2022

Published on 20 September 2022

Ester Sigillò presents a paper titled "The transformation of the Hirak movement between constraints and new opportunities" at the SISP Conference 2022

35th Annual Conference Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, 8-10 September, Rome

Published on 08 September 2022

Ester Sigillò at the ECPR General Conference, University of Innsbruck 22-26 August

Our research fellow will present the paper titled "Covid-19 and shrinking space for civil society mobilisations in hybrid regimes and fragile democracies. The cases of Algeria and Tunisia"

Published on 22 August 2022

The BIT-ACT team at the 2022 ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck

The event will combine online and face-to-face panels in the Austrian Tyrol

Published on 12 August 2022

Oksana Huss discusses how digital anti-corruption technologies can contribute to a changing social contract

She participates in the workshop "Digital politics in authoritarian and hybrid regimes: Is Russia’s war against Ukraine a critical juncture?”

Published on 10 August 2022

Watch Oksana Huss discussing strategic corruption and participatory democracy

She intervenes at the “Telegrams from war-struck Ukraine: A series of talks about life, society and the economy in times of conflict"

Published on 01 July 2022

Alice Mattoni at the 4th General Conference on Organized Crime, in Pisa

She will be one of the speakers in the Roundtable "Building communities' resilience against organised crime: ICTs and inline/offline mobilization".

Published on 30 June 2022

Alice Fubini talks at the University of Technology and Economics of Budapest

She presents her comparative research between Italian and Spanish initiatives: "How hybrid forms of journalism deal with (open) data chain to foster transparency in Italy and Spain"

Published on 20 June 2022

BIT-ACT PhD student presents at the ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference

The draft paper is titled “Is it just data journalism? New entanglements between journalism and activism in a challenging digital era from the perspective of informative activism”

Published on 10 June 2022

Join us online or in person for two talks and a roundtable on corruption and anti-corruption

The events are part of the BIT-ACT Workshop and the 6th ICRN Forum, hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna

Published on 01 June 2022

Oksana Huss talks at the workshop “Issues and Perspectives in the Study of Social Movement Impacts”

She presents the paper co-authored with Alice Mattoni “Understanding chains of outcomes in social movements: A Case study of the e-petition platform Rahvaalgatus in Estonia.”