Augusto Valeriani is Full Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. His research focuses on political communication, digital media, and journalism. He coordinates the Master’s Degree Program in Journalistic, Public, and Corporate Communication and is a member of the academic board of the PhD program in Political and Social Sciences. Additionally, he directs the Master in New Media and Marketing Communication at Bologna Business School.
For the 2024-2026 term, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Comunicazione Politica (ComPol), ranked as a top-tier journal (Class A) in the fields 14/A2, 14/C1, 14/C2, 14/C3, and 14/D1. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Association of Political Communication and sits on the editorial boards of Social Media + Society, Cyber Orient, and Problemi dell’informazione.
Currently, he is an Associate Investigator (unit lead) for the PRIN2022 project "TASKs (Trust, Authority, Sense, and Knowledge)" and previously held the same role in the PRIN2017 project "I-PolHyS. Investigating Polarization in Hybrid Media Systems". He has conducted research at the University of Westminster in London (2005-2006) and the Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia (2009-2010). From 2015 to 2017, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Bing Center-Florence, Stanford University.
He has authored four monographs, the most recent published by Oxford University Press in 2021, as well as numerous book chapters in both Italian and English, addressing journalism, political communication, and international communication with a particular focus on digital media. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Current Sociology, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Information, Communication and Society, Social Media + Society, European Journal of Communication, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Sage Open, Italian Political Science Review (RISP), Sociologica, Comunicazione Politica, Problemi dell’Informazione, and Mediascapes Journal.
He has received grants, awards, and recognitions from the Italian Political Science Association (2012), the Italian Society for Electoral Studies (2014), the "Political Communication" division of the International Communication Association (2014), the "Information, Technology and Politics" section of the American Political Science Association(2022), and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (2022). He has presented his work at numerous national and international academic conferences, including those organized by the International Communication Association, American Political Science Association, European Sociological Association, European Communication Research and Education Association, European Consortium for Political Research, Middle East Studies Association, Italian Association of Sociology, Italian Political Science Association, and Italian Association of Political Communication.
He earned his degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna in 2004 and completed his PhD in Communication, Mass Media, and the Public Sphere at the University of Siena in 2008.
