Tommaso Venturini

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Tommaso Venturini is ‘professeur associé’ and coordinator of the research activities at the Sciences Po médialab.

Online academic portfolio at  www.tommasoventurini.it
Contact : tommaso.venturini[AT]sciences-po.fr
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Tommaso Venturini is leading scientist of the project sEMAPS and MEDEA and responsible for the Axis 1 of the project FORCCAST.
His research activities focus on:
Digital Methods
Controversy Mapping
Social Modernization

He teachs Controversy Mapping, Digital Methods, Data Journalism and STS at graduate and undergraduate level.
He has been trained in sociology and media studies at the University of Bologna, completed a PhD in Society of Information at the University of Milano Bicocca and a post-doc in Sociology of Modernity at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna.
He has been visiting student at UCLA and visiting researcher at the CETCOPRA of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne.

During his studies, Tommaso Venturini has founded a web design agency and worked in several online communication projects.



Book sections

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Great expectations : méthodes quali-quantitative et analyse des réseaux sociaux. In FOURMENTRAUX, Jean-Paul (dir.). L'Ère Post-Media. Humanités digitales et Cultures numériques. Paris : Hermann, 2012, p. 39-51. 

Conference proceedings

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Designing Controversies : How design has been socialized and why sociology should be designed. In Design and Displacement, 4S-EASST Conference. Copenhagen Business School, 2012.

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Communicating Controversies, Some Example from the Climate Debate. In Book of Papers. PCST, 2012.

VENTURINI, Tommaso et LATOUR, Bruno. The Social Fabric : Digital Traces and Quali-quantitative Methods. In Proceedings of Future En Seine 2009. Cap Digital, 2010.

2010 - Venturini, T. Second Orality in R.K. Nielsen et al. (Eds.) International Collaborative Dictionary of Communications, url: http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/icdc-content-folder/second-orality

Journal Articles

VENTURINI, Tommaso et GUIDO, Daniele. Once Upon a Text  : an ANT Tale in Text Analysis. Sociologica. 2013, vol forthcomin.

VENTURINI, Tommaso, GEMENNE, François, SEVERO, Marta. Des Migrants et des Mots Une analyse numérique des débats médiatiques sur les migrations et l'environnement. Cultures & Conflits. 2013, vol forthcomin. 

LATOUR, Bruno, JENSEN, Pablo, VENTURINI, Tommaso,  et al. The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts : A Digital Test of Gabriel Tarde's Monads. British Journal of Sociology. 2012, vol forthcomin.

2011 - Venturini, T. Hypertext Corpus Initiative in Observa Working Papers

2007 - Venturini, T. Verba Volant, Scripta Manent: the discontinuity effect of explicit media in American Behavioral Scientist, 50:7

Web site contributions

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Medialab de Sciences Po : cartographier le web pour les sciences sociales. In e-Dossiers de l'audiovisuel INA. 2012.

2011 - Venturini, T. Hypertext Corpus Initiative, données hypertextuelles pour les sciences sociales in e-Dossier de l'audiovisuel INA

Other publications

2006 - Venturini, T. Opera Aperta: Wikipedia e l’oralità secondaria in Magma, 4:1

2008 - Venturini, T. Piccola introduzione alla cartografia delle controversie in Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, 3

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Diving in Magma: How to Explore Controversies with Actor-Network Theory in Public Understanding of Science, 20:4 mai 2010

VENTURINI, Tommaso. Building on faults : how to represent controversies with digital methods. Public Understanding of Science. [en ligne], décembre 2012, vol 21, n° 7, p. 796-812. ISSN 09636625. Disponible  sur :