About
I have a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences («UGent» – University of Ghent) and in Theory and Social Research («Sapienza» – University of Rome). My joint-PhD thesis was about the connection between the online and the offline worlds in our everyday life.
I am interested in the social effects of new media, which I preferably study by a qualitative approach. I did research about new media as well as non-profit and genre studies.
Before the Ph.D. course, I graduated in Communication Sciences (Bachelor Degree) and Sociology (BA Honours), and I studied business communication (P.R. online).
Publications
Main author
Agostini, S. & Mechant, P. (2019). Towards a Definition of Virtual Community. Signo Y Pensamiento, 38(74).
Agostini, S. & Mechant, P. (2018). The role of Virtual Communities in Offline Collaboration: Four Case Studies, Comunidades virtuales y colaboración offline: cuatro casos de estudio. Comunicación, 39 July-December (2018), pp. 15-32.
Agostini, S. & Mechant, P. (2015). “Virtual Communities and Feelings of Influence: four case studies”, in Proceedings of Eighteenth TheIIER International Conference, Rome, Italy, 28th-29th March 2015, ISBN: 978-93-82702-86-3.
Agostini, S. & Mechant, P. (2015), Virtual Communities and Feelings of Influence: four case studies. International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication (IJEEDC), ISSN: 2320-2084, Volume-3, Issue-5, May-2015
Agostini, S. & Mechant, P. (2015), “Virtual Communities and Feelings of Influence: four case studies”, in International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS), ISSN: 2320-2084, Volume-3, Issue-5, May-2015.
Co-author
Agostini, S. – Porro, E. (2015), “Contesti e persone. La questione di genere nell’università italiana” [Contexts and persons. The gender issue in the Italian university], in Fontana, R., “Le donne nell’accademia italiana. Identità, potere e carriera” [Women in the Italian academy: work, identity, power and career].
