Antropologia

Born in Padua in 1993, I moved to Bologna and graduated in Anthropology, Religions and Eastern Culture. I then moved to Rotterdam to attend the master in Arts, Culture and Society, where I studied social theories and research methods, with a focus on different ways of experiencing culture and the arts, and writing a thesis on Rotterdam Museums' visitors. Later, I moved to London where I worked for a well known research market agency, participating in international projects in several areas, both offline and online. My experience in London determined my decision to focus on the digital world and especially on Big Data, which are more and more critical in our society. I enrolled in the Big Data Analytics Master to acquire technical skills together with a broader knowledge on how to extract information from data and how to use it in a strategic and informed manner.

I studied at the University of Siena (BA, MPhil), where I also received my PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2012. Between 2007 and 2013 I carried out three fieldwork periods (in total seventeen months) in Nicosia (Cyprus). This experience allowed me to start my collaboration with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, a think tank I have been working for as a correspondent since 2011. From 2013 to February 2017 I worked at the University of Catanzaro as a postdoc fellow in sociology of health and adjunct professor of social and medical anthropology. I spent part of my postdoc at the University of Oxford (Department of Social Policy and Intervention). My interest for the analysis of big data and the decision to apply for this master grew out of my persuasion that we can properly understand and operate within our societies only if we face and make the most of the digital dimension of our existence.

Born in Vicenza in 1989. After a scientific high school diploma, he earns a bachelor’s degree in Communication Science from the university of Verona, presenting an experimental thesis on the dynamics of virtualization of minor ethnic communities. He subsequently moves to Siena to study the relationships between social networks, cultural structures and communicative agency in the digital mediascape by attending the courses of the master’s degree in Visual Anthropology. Here he synthesizes a proposal for a social research methodology to be applied to the internet, which finds application in an ethnographic thesis titled “To recognize and accept the real in the virtual. r/Italy, online ethnography of a ‘virtual community’”. After graduating with honors, he decides to continue his studies to equip himself with Data Science techniques and perspectives to integrate the extraction and functional manipulation of information with storytelling capabilities and knowledge processing.