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Lorenzo Zamponi

Born in Castelfranco Veneto (Italy) in 1983, Lorenzo Zamponi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. He is currently working on a research project titled "Memory in Action: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in Student Movements", supervised by Donatella della Porta.

Lorenzo studied Communication Sciences at the University of Padova, where he finished his first level degree in 2005, with the thesis "Comunicare l'identità di classe: la stampa sindacale a Treviso 1952-1960" (Communicating class identity: the trade union press in Treviso 1952-1960), and his master degree in 2008, with the thesis "I circuiti della memoria: giornali, tv e la narrazione delle foibe 1946-2007" (The circuits of memory: press, TV and the narrative of foibe 1946-2007). He specialised in social movements, public memory and media analysis.

Lorenzo is a member of the standing group on social movements and political participation of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP).

Lorenzo is also a journalist and member of the Italian Ordine dei Giornalisti. Since 2005 he has been collaborating with various mainstream, independent and alternative newspapers and magazines.

Below, you find some basic info about Lorenzo's academic activities.

Contact: lorenzo.zamponi@eui.eu


Lorenzo's research interests include social movements and contentious politics, in particular student movements; symbolic and cultural aspects of mobilisation; media system and media analysis; collective memory, social memory and public memory; qualitative methodologies, digital qualitative methods, participatory action research.


Publications

Essays in books

(2011) La rivolta della conoscenza: il movimento studentesco. In Maida, B. (ed.) Senti che bel rumore. Aaccademia Press, Torino.

(2006) Comunicare l'identità di classe. La stampa sindacale a Treviso 1952-1960. In Ceschin, D. (ed.) Dai campi alle officine. Storie e lotte del sindacato nel Trevigiano. Istresco, Treviso.

Voices in encyclopaedias

(forthcoming) Collective memory and Social Movements. In Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B. (eds.) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Movements. Blackwell, London.


Selected conference papers

(2011) Narrative of insurrection and conceptualizations of rage. Accounts of the riots of December 14th in the self produced media of the Italian student movement, presented at the 6th ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference, Reykjavik.

(2011) The walls of the political city: Mediatised Public Memory and the Symbolic Construction of Conflict in the Italian Student Movement, presented at the IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) conference, Istanbul.

(2009, with Stefania Milan) L'Onda calling: subversion and self- production of media discourses by the 2008 Italian student movement, presented at the 23rd SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) conference, Rome.

This webpage was last updated on November 18, 2011