Alice Mattoni is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project BIT-ACT Bottom-up initiatives and anti-corruption technologies: how citizens use ICTs to fight corruption funded by the European Research Council, from 2019 to 2024.

She has been a Research Fellow of the Centre on Social Movement Studies – COSMOS from 2013 to 2019 and Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore from 2015 to 2019. In this capacity, she has also worked as the Principal Investigator of the research project PiCME – Political participation in Complex Media Environments: A Multi-Level and Multi-Method Approach funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research through the grant S.I.R. – Scientific Independence of young Researchers.

Alice co-funded and co-directs the Routledge Book Series on Media and Communication Activism with Claudia Magallanes-Blanco and Charlotte Ryan.. She is one of the editors Partecipazione e Conflitto – Participation and Conflict, an open-access and peer reviewed online publication.

From January 2011 to December 2012, Alice has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a Master of Research and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, where she discussed her thesis in 2009. She graduated in Communication Sciences (Mass Communication) at the University of Padua, in 2003.

Research interests: anti-corruption movements, grounded theory, digital media, qualitative research design, and media practices