Dr Giovanna Mascheroni
Giovanna Mascheroni, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Media and Communications in the Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica of Milan. She is part of the management team of EU Kids Online and co-Chair of WG4 of the COST Action DigiLitEY. From 2012 to 2014 she coordinated Net Children Go Mobile, a mix-methods, 9 country project funded by the Safer Internet Programme, which investigated the relationship between smartphones and tablet use among European children and their changing online experiences. Her work focuses on the social shaping and the social consequences of the internet, mobile media and Internet of Toys and Things for children and young people. She has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed journal articles on online risks and opportunities, civic/political participation online, datafication and its implications for digital citizenship. With Dr Donell Holloway she has edited the book The Internet of Toys Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart Play (Palgrave, 2019).
Giovanna Mascheroni, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Media and Communications in the Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica of Milan. She is part of the management team of EU Kids Online and co-Chair of WG4 of the COST Action DigiLitEY. From 2012 to 2014 she coordinated Net Children Go Mobile, a mix-methods, 9 country project funded by the Safer Internet Programme, which investigated the relationship between smartphones and tablet use among European children and their changing online experiences. Her work focuses on the social shaping and the social consequences of the internet, mobile media and Internet of Toys and Things for children and young people. She has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed journal articles on online risks and opportunities, civic/political participation online, datafication and its implications for digital citizenship. With Dr Donell Holloway she has edited the book The Internet of Toys Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart Play (Palgrave, 2019).