Research activities
Emiliano Rossi is a post-doc researcher at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, currently involved in the project ATLas - Atlas of Local Television (PRIN 2020; P.I.: prof. L. Barra).
His research topics are mostly related to television and new media, framed on a historical, social and productive level (see Research).
He is the author of the book Schermi di trasporto. Storia, produzione, immaginari (Meltemi, 2023) and he currently serves as assistant journal manager of VIEW Journal of European Television History.
In 2022 he received a PhD in Cinema, Photography and Television in Bologna (supervisor: prof. L. Barra). After a second-cycle degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production from the same University with a dissertation on inflight entertainment, his doctoral research has focused on tv consumption in the context of transportation vehicles and related environments. In-Transit Screens: Production Patterns and Urban Imageries of Mobilities explores the editorial, commercial and media-related strategies implied in the provision of audiovisual contents within railway stations, airports, on subway platforms and at public waiting shelters. Special concern is reserved to the public and institutional communication content which lies at the core of those systems, on a production-oriented level.
Teaching and Tutoring Assignments
He teaches Organization and Management of Multimedia Systems (CdLM Incom and Citem).
Since 2023 he has been responsible of the Television Laboratory (bachelor in Science Communication); he is also in charge of the seminars focused on the dissertation preparation and writing (second cycle degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production).
Since 2018 he is tutor and co-organiser of the Mediating Italy in Global Culture international summer school, organised by Unibo in collaboration with five US Universities (Brown University, Dickinson College, The University of Michigan, The Ohio State University and Wesleyan University).
Since 2022 he has worked as class tutor, with teaching assignments, for Economics and Marketing of Audiovisual Media course (proff. V. Innocenti and G. Pescatore) and Media Management course (prof. F. Di Chio).
He is adjunct professor in Television and New Media History and Theory at Università degli Studi "Aldo Moro" in Bari, in Radio and Tv Theories and Techniques at Università degli Studi di Padova and inHistory and Techniques of Tv and Digital Media at Università degli Studi di Udine.
Since 2023 he has also joined Biografilm Academy (Bologna) for a slot of lectures on Audiovisual and Cinema Production.
International networks and attendance to conferences, symposiums and doctoral schools
In 2025 he completed a research and teaching fellowship at the Ecole Universitaire de Recherche Arts et Humanités dell'Université Côte-d’Azur (Nice).
In 2020, he was involved in a visiting fellowship at the Media and Communication Department at the University of Lund, Sweden, within the research project Mobile Socialities and under the guidance of Prof. Annette Hill.
As a speaker, he attended various national and international conferences; a full and updated list can be found in the Italian version of this webpage ("Presentazioni a convegni, seminari e scuole dottorali").
Publications
Please see the relevant section.
Previous studies and working experience
He completed his previous studies at Università degli Studi in Milan (after an ERASMUS exchange at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), and in the city Conservatoire, where he was part (2010-2016) of the research network Musica perseguitata, promoted by the Spazio Europeo della Memoria Musicale. Since 2018, he has conducted tutoring and teaching assistance activities for the Department of the Arts and within the Ministry of Education funded programme Raccontare e fare il cinema italiano. He is a member of the selection committee of Bellaria and Movievalley Bazzacinema film festivals and, as a journalist, he collaborates with some local editorial initiatives. He is one of the authors of the volume Il respiro del mercato, commissioned by Milan City Council. He also collaborated for RTI/Mediaset, both in the consultancy project Osservatorio dei successi e dei consumi culturali 2020 ("TV seriality" section) and as a meta-data pool member of video streaming platform "Infinity". More details can be found in the curriculum vitae attached.
Affiliations
2022: ICA, International Communication Association ("Media Industries")
since 2020: CUC, Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and PA Social
2019: AISU, Associazione Italiana Studi Urbani
Since 2020 he has been a member of the EROI project, the open innovation platform set by Emilia-Romagna Region.
