Joint International Doctorate in Social Representations Culture and Communication

Department

Department of Communication and Social Research (CoRiS), Sapienza University of Rome

Main research activities/topics/projects

- Environmental sustainability and ecological transition, with particular reference to the Sustainable Development Goals and energy transition processes, risk perception, and socio-technological innovations.

- Migration and intercultural relations, with reference, for example, to discursive processes in the construction of intergroup relations, stereotyping and inclusion, and practices of empowerment, agency and advocacy in sensitive areas such as health and education.

- Postcolonial studies and their relationship with the mediatisation of decolonisation dynamics.

- Democratisation processes, cultural heritage and the construction of citizenship, including institutional discourse analysis, sociology and political psychology, populism, communication and processes of affective polarisation, analysis of the public sphere (including in relation to the use of AI), power, peace studies, projects for change and cultural innovation.

- Practices of democratic participation and civic engagement, processes of mobilisation of resistance communities and urban and global social groups and movements.

- Diversity communication and inclusion, with particular reference to the role of the media (both ‘traditional’ and algorithmic) in framing and combating discrimination against women, sexual minorities, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.

Working language

English

Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 3 - 6