Alessandro Delfanti
PhD candidate in Science and Society
Sissa - Università degli studi di Milano
delfanti(at)sissa(dot)it
Sissa, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy
I have a Master's degree in Science Communication and I am a member of the ICS group. My research interests are focused on communication in the field of biotechnology, in particular on science images and mediatic contemporary biotechnologists. Furthermore, I study the role of the ICT and the Web in this sector. I am an editor of JCOM (Journal of Science Communication) and a teaching assistant for the course in Sociology of New Media at the University of Milan. I volunteer at the P2P Foundation, and as a freelance journalist I write about science and technology on several Italian newspapers and magazines. You can read more in my blog, Qwerty.
Publications and preprints
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«What Dr. Venter Did on his Holidays». Exploration, hacking, entrepreneurship in the narratives of the Sorcerer II expedition, New Genetics and Society, 28 (4), 2009. Download Preprint
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«Le vacanze del dott. Venter». Il Sorcerer II e la comunicazione pubblica delle biotecnologie, in Pitrelli et al., Atti del VI Convegno Nazionale sulla Comunicazione della Scienza, Polimetrica, 2008. Download PDF
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Collaborative Web between open and closed science, JCOM 7 (2), June 2008. Download
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Special issue on Web and collaborative science, JCOM 7 (2), June 2008 (editor). Download
Conferences
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Hacking genomes. A study of scientists' ethos in 21st century informational capitalism, Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington D.C., October 2009
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ScienceDebate2008: il web 2.0 per dar voce alla scienza nelle presidenziali americane, Convegno Nazionale sulla Comunicazione della Scienza, Forlì, November 2008
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«What Dr. Venter Did on his Holidays»: The Sorcerer II and the Public Communication of Biotechnology, Congresso della Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, Milano ottobre 2007, and PCST Conference, Malmoe, June 2008
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Il giro del mondo. Il Sorcerer II e la comunicazione pubblica delle biotecnologie, Convegno Nazionale sulla Comunicazione della Scienza, Forlì, November 2007

