Virginia Massignan
Research Coordinator Communication- Education
2022 Ph.D. in Communication, Georgia State University – Dept. of Communication
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant2021 Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
2014 M.A. in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Graduated 110/110 summa cum laude2011 B.A. in Classics Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Graduated 110/110 summa cum laude
- Specializations
Focus on communication revolving around gendered understanding of technology, gender and diversity gap
in tech, data and algorithmic biases, and more broadly in coding as literacy
- Biography
Virgina Massignan is a communication researcher interested in ICTs affordances and how they influence communication in feminist or other gender-related contexts. Her work focuses on how social media conversations (Instagram and Twitter) create new opportunities of meaning-making among women.
- Publications
Ophir, Yotam & Walter, Dror & Massignan, Virginia & Forde, Devin & Neurohr, Madison. (Forthcoming/2021). News Media Framing of Social Protests Around Racial Tensions During the Donald Trump Presidency. Journalism.