Arianna Mainardi has been a Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, involved in the project “MAKERS – Movements as knowledge producers in the digital age”. She investigates movements as spaces for knowledge production and learning and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) within collective action dynamics.

She holds a PhD in Information Society at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the Centre d’Analyses et d’Intervention Sociologique (CADIS), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

She has published on political activism and gender issues, girls’ digital culture, youth and digital media consumption.

Research interests: Gender & Tech, Body & Sex, Digital culture, Social Research Methods, and political participation