Sabino Di Chio is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes in the Department of Education, Psychology and Communication Sciences at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. His research interests include: the transformations of temporality in late modern societies; the social consequences of digital innovation; the digital transition in local journalism. He is co-editor of Iconocrazia, journal of Social Sciences and Political Philosophy. His books include: “Tempo Irreale. Il restringimento dell'orizzonte temporale della tarda modernità” [Unreal Time. The narrowing of the Temporal Horizon of Late Modernity] (Liguori, 2015) and “Asimmetria Digitale. Il piano inclinato dell'innovazione tecnologica” [Digital asymmetry. The inclined plane of technological innovation] (Meltemi, 2022).
The Digital Media and Society Fellowship Program enables research stays at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University and aims to strengthen collaboration with international scholars in the study of networked communication and digital media. The program focuses on the following areas:
(1) Media Culture Research, especially media-related forms of practice in their cultural, sociotechnical, and temporal contexts;
(2) Digital Communication, particularly the production and appropriation of digitally networked media technologies and communication forms;
(3) Media Analysis, with a focus on reconstructing media content, its (multimodal, transmedia) forms of representation, and discursive formations across different forms of communication and media systems.
The Fellowship Program is hosted by the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and funded by Leipzig University. It covers travel expenses and accommodation in Leipzig. Fellows are provided with a workspace at the Chair of Media and Communication Studies.