Michele Sorice
Michele Sorice (born 1 May 1961) is an Italian sociologist and political scientist known for his work in the fields of political communication, political science and critical media studies. He is the author of over 25 books and 50 articles. Work. Two stages can be identified in Sorice's academic life. In the first stage, Sorice outlined a new vision of the interrelationships between media studies and consumption theories, in the frame of the critical media studies. His publications during this time include "Logiche dell'illogico" (1995), "" (1998) and "Le comunicazioni di massa" (2000). In the second stage of  his academic life, Sorice developed studies on media and democracy: he has presented many papers on these topics at international conferences. In 2013, Sorice was the keynote speaker of the plenary session of the PSA Media and Politics Group at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association in Cardiff, Wales, March 25–27, presenting a paper about Web democracy between participation and populism: Crisis, Political parties and new movements in the Italian public sphere. Sorice's recent books include "I media" (2005), "La ricerca sull'audience" (with E. De Blasio, G. Gili, M. Hibberd: 2007) "Sociologia dei mass media" (2009 ), "La comunicazione politica" (2011)., "La leadership politica. Media e costruzione del consenso" (2012), "Assessing Communication. Integrated Approaches in Political, Social and Business Context" (ed)., "I media e la democrazia", "Innovazione Democratica" and a methodological work ("Media, politica e società: le tecniche di ricerca") with E. De Blasio, M. Quaranta and M. Santaniello. In 2020, he has published "Sociologia dei media. Un'introduzione critica", an academic handbook placed in the area of critical media studies. His recent research focuses in particular on the relationship between political communication and populism, the political leadership, the participatory deliberative democracy, the social movements and, more generally , on the structural relationships between media and democracy analysed in a critical perspective. In this perspective, he has published articles (with E. De Blasio) in the "International Journal of Communication" and in "tripleC". Sorice was a professor of Media Studies at the University of Lugano (USI) in Switzerland and at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Since 2015 to 2018 he has been Honorary Professor at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. He held lectures and seminars at many European universities. He has been leading the CMCS-LUISS working papers series for several years and he is member of the scientific  board of " Communication Management Quarterly", "Partecipazione & Conflitto" and "ComPol Comunicazione Politica" Sorice serves as Professor at the LUISS University in Rome, where he has been Director of the Centre for Media and Democratic Innovations "" until 2018. Since 2018 he is the Director of the Centre for Conflict and Participation Studies. He is member of the scientific board of the School of Government. He has been also an Invited Professor at Gregorian University. where he has been teaching Political Science. Sorice was the coordinator, with Professor Philip Schlesinger, of an international research network focusing on media public services in Europe. Sorice  is member of the (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica), of the Media and Politics Specialist Group and of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, both of the Political Studies Association (PSA) of UK. Select bibliography. Books Edited Chapters in books Articles