Abstract:

Through stories of anti-corruption activism from around the world, the talk sheds light on how grassroots movements create and employ digital technologies to promote integrity. It presents a typology of anti-corruption technologies, discusses their opportunities and examines the challenges they pose to civil society organisations. It also analyses their impact ondemocracy and civic engagement, highlighting the democratic ideals embedded in these digital technologies and their role in redefining citizenship and promoting active participation in society.

Bio:

Alice Mattoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and SocialSciences at the University of Bologna. Alice serves as the Principal Investigator ofthe ERC funded project BIT-ACT (2019-2024), where she explores how civil society organizations and activists utilize digital media, digital data, and AI applications to combat corruption worldwide. She conducts research and has published extensively on the dynamic interplay between media — digital and otherwise — and grassroots politics in international journals, including Big Data & Society, European Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication and Society, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and Visual Studies. She is the author of Media Practices and Protest Politics. How Precarious Workers Mobilise (Routledge 2016) and editor of Mediation and Protest Movements (Intellect 2013), with Bart Cammaerts and Patrick McCurdy, and of Spreading Protest. Social Movements in Times of Crisis(ECPR Press 2014), with Donatella della Porta.

Zoom link: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/61217125136