Costanza Azzuppardi is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Costanza holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations and a MA in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations (GLOPEM) from the University of Catania. In addition, she completed a post-graduate degree in International Functions and Cooperation to Development at SIOI (Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale). She also studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Furthermore, she collaborated with some Non-governmental organizations as social media manager.

Her research interest is currently focused on the social media public sphere and Youth. Costanza is interested in the analysis of social media as a space of political discussion where the development and the expression of Youth civic culture are facilitated. She examines the communication of climate-justice movements as a significant example of how young people take the chance to directly communicate the stance of a generation through the use of posts and images. 

Research interests: visual analysis, democracy, social movement media, and political communication