Giuseppe Lugano
News
- My short documentary on the Helsinki protest against Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi has been the #33 most popular video watched in YouTube in the category "News and Politics" for the first week of March
- My article on the impact of social media in the North African revolutions (with Egypt as a case study) has been published by Helsinki Times on 3rd of March 2011.
Current positions
- Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and member of the Social ICT - Human Dimensions Research Group
- Author of "Comunicazione Mobile. Nuove frontiere tra consumo, collaborazione e controllo di contenuti digitali" (Ed.Cierre, 2007)
- Blogger of Cosix.it - Your Digital Lifestyle. Micro-updates via @Finnjosh in Twitter
- Founder and Board Member of Tsemppi - Organization for International Degree Students at the University of Helsinki. Task for 2009/10: Postgraduate student coordinator
- Member of the Alumni Society of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
- Special adviser for Maailma Tutuksy ry - Get to Know the World Association
Professional profile
I was born in Camerino (MC), Italy, on March, 26th 1977. Since September 2003 I'm permanently living in Helsinki, Finland. I received a Master's degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2003 with the thesis Finnish and Italian technology in the global environment of EU: a comparison of ICT strategies in education.In September 2003, I started my research journey by joining the Cosco-Edutech research group at the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT). Later on, I shifted my interest from CSCL to the social aspects of mobile communication by joining, from 2004 till 2008, the Sonera Information Society Unit of TeliaSonera Finland, the leading mobile operator of the nordic countries.
In June 2005, I was accepted as doctoral student in Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä. My doctoral thesis, titled Digital community design:exploring the role of mobile social software in the process of digital convergence discusses, from an academic viewpoint, some of the early ideas that I introduced in my first book, Comunicazione Mobile, which I published in 2007 for the Italian editor Cierre.
In July 2010, I earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä by defending my doctoral thesis "Digital community design: exploring the role of mobile social software in the process of digital convergence". The Opponent was Prof. Matthias Rauterberg (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands). During 2010, I contributed to the Sustainability Research conducted at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki. In May 2010, I co-authored a paper titled "Resilience thinking: from challenges towards solutions in a disrupted world", which was presented at the 4S - Summer Symposium on Sustainable Systems .
My areas of research interest include, among others, educational technology, social network analysis, computer and mobile mediated communication, sustainability research.
