Rosanna Fanni is a digital science researcher. She currently pursues an Erasmus Mundus MA in Digital Communication Leadership in Brussels. Her main research interests are centered around the dissemination of information with a particular focus on political communication. Rosanna is German-Italian and holds a degree from FU Berlin and UCL London.
Contributor: Rosanna Fanni
The potential of digital well-being in times of physical social distancing
Digital well-being tools hold the promise of empowering users to regain control of time spent online. How successful are these tools during the Covid-19 global pandemic?
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Sarah Diefenbach about digital well-being
Interview with Sarah Diefenbach, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, German. What does your research investigate exactly? In general, my research is centred on digital products from a psychological perspective. On the one hand, this includes the application of psychological knowledge (“psychological needs frameworks”, for example) in product ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Matthew James Dennis about digital well-being
Interview with Matthew James Dennis, ethicist of emerging technologies at Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. What is the focus of your research? My main research question concerns how we can live well with technology, especially new and emerging online technologies. Basically, I’m interested in the extent to which technology ...
The way of on-life: Introducing the Digital Humanities Series
Voluntarily or not, social distancing in 2020 means relying on digital communication more than ever before. Which challenges and choices arise from the all-digital living lab? A new dedicated ESMH Digital Humanities series explores the developing on-life in the EU.
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Daniel Miller about the on-life
Interview with Daniel Miller, professor of anthropology at University College London. His earlier work was on material culture and consumption. Since 2000 he has been researching and developing programmes in Digital Anthropology. He is author/editor of 41 books. He previously directed the Why We Post project on the use and consequence of social media. Today ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Philipp Budka about the on-life
Interview with Dr. Philipp Budka, Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and the M.A. program Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin / HMWK Berlin. How do you evaluate the current push to ‘live' our personal lives with and through digital technologies? As an anthropologist who has ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the on-life
Interview with Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, an anthropologist and writer based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. His work is motivated by a triple concern: to understand the present world, to understand what it means to be human, and to help bring about social and environmental change. How do you evaluate the ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof. Andrea Renda about COVID-19 & GDPR
COVID-19 & GDPR, a scientist’s opinion We speak with Andrea Renda, professor of Digital Innovation at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the CEPS Unit on Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID). How do you evaluate the current increased use of data (especially ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Innocenzo Genna about COVID-19 & GDPR
COVID-19 & GDPR, a scientist’s opinion We speak with Innocenzo Genna, independent public affairs consultant advising in telecoms and Internet European regulation. He is also known via his professional blog RadioBruxellesLibera. How would you evaluate the current increased use of data (especially in non-EU countries) and its effectiveness in “stopping” the virus? I have read ...
Which way for EU data governance during COVID-19?
Since the unprecedented outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, the use of data has extensively been discussed. What obstacles do scientists, public health officials and private companies face when processing datasets? And how much digital privacy can EU citizens afford in times of crisis?