Keynotes and Conference Presentations

Keynotes and Invited Presentations

Massimo Ragnedda regularly delivers keynote and invited lectures on digital inequalities, digital capital, and the societal implications of artificial intelligence across international academic and policy contexts.

Selected Keynotes and Invited Talks Keynotes Presentations

AI and Digital Inequalities: New Divides, Old Patterns? V MeLCi Lab Autumn School 2025, The Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab – MeLCi Lab (Lusófona University, CICANT), 13 November 2025
Digital inclusion in the era of AI, Digital Inclusion in the Nordic-Baltic Region, Stockholm, 15 May 2024.
Bridging Theory to Practice: The Operationalization of Digital Capital, International Conference on Data Science & Social Research, University of Napoli, Italy, 27 March 2024.
Inequality in the Digital Age: Unveiling the Interconnection between Social and Digital Realms, Digital Economy Lab, Warsaw University (Poland), 4^th October 2023,
The role of ICTS in achieving a more sustainable future for all, IV Workshop da Rede Transamazônica de Cooperação em Informação e Conhecimento para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (RTCI-DS), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), 15^th of May 2023.
The Intertwined relationship between social and digital exclusion. University of Groningen (Netherlands) 3 April 2023.
Opening Talk at the III Encuentro de la Cátedra de Brecha Digital Generacional, University of Alicante, Spain (21st and 22nd of September 2022).
Internet and Social Inequalities. 18th International Symposium on Communication in the Millennium, Ataturk University, (Turkey), 27 October 2021.
The inequality loop: how digital exclusion (re)produces social inequalities, Global Communication Education Conclave (India). 26 October 2021.
Importance of bridging digital divide and building digital capital in Pakistan, Foundation University Islamabad, 14 July 2020.
Conceptualizing and Measuring Digital Capital, Manipal Institute of Communication (India), 12 June 2020.
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Digital Capital, Lomonosov University, Moscow, 17-18 October 2019.
The Digital Capital Framework. Enhancing Digital Inclusion. Center for Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology, Bruxelles, 5^th September 2019.
Enhancing Digital Inclusions, Lomonosov University, Moscow, 24 October 2018
The development of digital Inequalities. A critical overview. Financial University under the Russian Federation Government, Moscow, Russia 15^th April 2018.
From Social to Digital Inequalities, Intercom Comunicação, San Paulo, Brazil, 19 June 2016.
Rethinking digital divide, University of Exeter, 3 June 2015.

Invited Presentations

The future of digital society. Risks and opportunities, Lomonosov University, Moscow, 5 November 2024 (online).
Navigating the Digital Landscape: Unveiling Societal Shifts and Digital Disparities, Lanzhou University (China), 4th September 2023.
Digital Capital and the three Digital Rights, University of Teheran, Iran. 10 April 2021
The future of digital Society. Lomonosov University, Moscow (Russia) 12 February 2021.
Digital Capital and the three digital rights. AlQuds University (Palestine), 30^th October 2020.
Digital Inequalities in the international perspectives. Invited Speaker (Guest of Honour), Department of Mass Communication and Journalism Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, (India), 20 October 2020.
Digital Society: risks and opportunities, Lomonosov University, Moscow, 12 October 2020.
Digital Inequalities in the Global South, The Federal University of Pará (UFPA) Brazil, 9 September 2020.
Measuring Digital Capital, Cardiff University, 6^th May 2019.
Towards Digital Equity, Lignam University, Hong Kong, 12 January 2019,
Digital Divide, Inequalities and Capital, Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, 19^th November 2018.
Does digital capital affect the digital divide? Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, Sunderland University, 6^th November 2017.
The three levels of Digital Divide, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 12 May 2017.
Digital Capital, Newcastle University, 26 April 2017.
A weberian analysis of digital inequalities, Kaplan, Singapore, 6 March 2017.
Narratives from the Net. Demonstrating why Digital Divide is a Dilemma for Digital Activists in Africa, Uppsala University, 9 December 2016.
From Social to Digital Inequalities, Intercom Comunicação, San Paulo, Brazil, 19 June 2016.
Digital Inequalities: are social inequalities already existing in the society reproduced and reinforced online? Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, 2 June 2015.
From Symbolic violence to Social Sustainability in the digital Age. 10-11 February 2013, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
The changing role of women on Italian Television, Northampton University, Guest Lecture, 7 December 2011.
Violence against women: from media misrepresentation to physical violence, 3rd International Seminar on Social Sustainability: Migration, Gender and Trafficking of Women, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, 7 November 2011 (invited speaker).
Web 2.0 and new form of communication. Universidad de Vallodolid, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Jurídicas y de la Comunicación, Segovia, 2 June 2010.

Organizer and chair

Co-organizer of the 2025 ICA Media Sociology Post-conference in Denver, USA (June 2025).
Co-organizer of the IAMCR Research Symposium at the University of Sharjah (April 2025)
Co-organizer of the 2024 ICA Media Sociology Post-conference in Australia (June 2024).
Co-organizer of the 2023 ICA Media Sociology Post-conference in Toronto (31^st May 2023).
Co-organizer of the IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group special panel onthe International Digital Divide (October 2022).
Co-organizer of the 2022 ICA Media Sociology Post-conference in Paris (1^st June 2022).
Co-organizer of the IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group special panel on“Digital Capital”, for the Media Sociology Symposium (American Sociology Association) (August 2021).
Co-organizer of the IAMCR webinar “Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion” (March 2021).
Era or Error of Transformation? Assessing Afrocentric Attributes of Digitalisation, IAMCR 2019, Madrid, Chair and discussant.
New Dimensions of the Digital Divide, IAMCR 2018, Oregon, Chair and discussant.
Proposer and coordinator of a pre-conference “Mapping New Perspectives and Debates on Digital Divide in Africa” at the IAMCR 2017, Cartagena, Colombia, July 2017.
Proposer and coordinator of a special track (with 4 panels and 17 papers) about Digital Divide at the MECCSA conference 2015, Northumbria University, UK, January 2015.
Chair of the ICA pre-conference session: Communication and “The Good Life” Around the World After Two Decades of the Digital Divide. ICA Conference, Seattle, May 22 2014.
Living in Surveillance society, Organizer and Chair, University of Sassari. 27-28 July 2012.
The role of social networks in the Arab revolution, University of Sassari, 8 April, 2011. Chair and discussant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDar968ONI).
Social communication in the age of Social Network, University of Sassari, in cooperation with “Fondazione Pubblicità Progresso”, 10 May 2010.
The role of culture in the age of Social Network, paper presented at the conference with the Chair of the European Committee on Budgetary Control, Sassari, 13 November 2009.
New movement and e-democracy, Chair and discussant, Sassari, 19 May 2009.

Selected Conference presentations

Digital Practices and Environmental Consciousness: Investigating the Digital Environment Habitus in Italy, New Zealand, IAMCR 2024.
Digital environmental habitus of families in England, ICA Media Sociology Post-conference, Toronto (Canada), 31^st May 2023.
Digital Capital and life chances: an empirical analysis of the third level of the digital divide (1^st June 2022) 2022 ICA Media Sociology Post-conference, Paris (France).
DIPRC2021 (Digital Inclusion Policy Research, 14^th September 2021), The Internet as a tool of Social Inclusivity.
Theorizing Digital Capital (August 2021). Media Sociology Symposium (American Sociology Association).
Conceptualisation of Techno-Environmental Habitus, IAMCR, 11-15 July 2021, Nairobi, Kenya
Examining the second level of the digital divide through the lens of Digital Capital, IAMCR, 12-17 July 2020, Tampere.
Digital inequalities and digital capital in multiethnic Russian regions, IAMCR, 12-17 July 2020, Tampere.
Defining and measuring Digital capital. Results from an Italian study. 14th Annual International Conference on Sociology, 4-7 May 2020, Athens.
What digital capital is and how to measure it. IAMCR, 7-11 July 2019, Madrid.
Digital equity: promoting digital rights. Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019. University of Liverpool, London 18-19 June 2019.
Operationalizing and measuring Digital Capital: identification of indicators (with Maria Laura Ruiu), Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide 2019 International Conference, 22-24 May 2019, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Distributed Pool Mining and Digital Inequalities: From Cryptocurrency to Scientific Research,” (with Hanna Kreitem) 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Communication Beyond Boundaries, to be held in Washington DC, 24-28 May 2019.
Digital stratification: Class, status group and parties in the age of the Internet. IAMCR 2018 conference (Oregon, 20-24 June 2018).
Artificial Limitations and Meaningful Access: How Artificial Limitations on the Internet Affect Digital Inequalities (with Hanna Kreitem), GIG-ARTS 2018 – The Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies, 26-27 April 2018, Cardiff.
The rise of the Digital capital and its relation with the third level of Digital Divide, IAMCR 16-20 July 2017, Cartagena, Colombia.
Theorizing the Digital Divide, preconference, IAMCR 15 July 2017, Cartagena, Colombia.
The 6Cs (six capitals). The digital capital, ECREA Conference, Prague, 9-12 November 2016.
Social Stratification and digital divide: a weberian approach. ICA Conference, Seattle, May 22 2014.
Censorship, propaganda and media ownership in Italy in the Era of Berlusconi. AIMCR Conference, Dublin: 25-30 June, 2013.
From Digital divide to digital inequalities. Northumbria University, Research Media, March 20^th
The double perception of surveillance: strong with interpersonal and weak with institutional surveillance, 24-25 February 2013, Media, Communication, Publics, CMCL, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia.
Dataveillance and e-surveillance. A critical case study of the usage of Social Networking Sites by students in Sassari. The State of Surveillance, Liss/Cost Conference, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona. 30 May 2012.
Small Talk in the Digital Age: Making Sense of Phatic Posts. World Wide Web Conference, Lyon, France, 17 April 2012.
Radio broadcasting in Italy: from Fascism to Digital Age. Oxford, Regent’s Park College, 10 February 2012.
The political use of the Internet in Italy, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 February 2011.
LiSS Meeting of WG2, COST ACTION ISO0807 “Living in Surveillance Societies” University College Cork, (Ireland). 14-15 May 2010.
Internet as a public memory, paper presented at the roundtable on Memory and public discourse, University of Sassari, 4 December 2008.
Workshop on Surveillance studies with David Lyon and Stefano Rodotà, I° Festival Internazionale del diritto di Piacenza, settembre 2008.
Internet and the new social movement, paper presented at Italian Sociological Association meeting, Bicocca University, Milan, October 2008.
The surveillance in Europe, paper presented at the Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, (CA) USA, Marzo 2008, Hixon-Riggs Forum on Science, Technology and Society.
Social communication for the NGO, paper presented at the international conference organized by the Fondazione Publicità Progresso, University of Milan, November 2007.
From iperreality to the construction of reality, paper presented at the Italian Sociological Association meeting, University of Federico II, Napoli, June 2007.