Paola De Rosa is an adjunct professor of “Sociology” and “Public Communication” at Link Campus University, where she conducts research at Link LAB - Laboratory for Social Research.
Ph.D. in “Nuove Tecnologie e Frontiere del Diritto, dell’Economia e della Società”, she is currently a research fellow in the European project GEMINI – Gender Equality through Media Investigations and New Training Insights (CERV-2022-GE). Previously, she was a research fellow in the 2015 PRIN project Media e terrorismi. L’impatto della comunicazione e delle reti digitali sull’insicurezza percepita, as well as a member of the LCU research unit within the H2020 DETECt-Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives.
Her research interests focus on crisis communication in organizational and political-institutional contexts; media representation of gender-related issues and processes of influence on audiences; the social construction of leadership and female empowerment.
Her publications include “Local over Digital? An Empirical Analysis of Crisis Communication Strategies in the Bargi-Suviana Explosion” (Salute e Società, 2025); “Roman-ness in Italian Crime Dramas. Media Representations and Audience Perception” (Mediascapes Journal, 2025); “On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori” (Celebrity Studies, 2025); “’Ragazzi Fuori’. Il reinserimento sociale dei giovani detenuti, tra percezione e rappresentazione” (Welfare e Ergonomia, 2025); “Audiences of popular European television crime drama: A nine-country study on consumption patterns, attitudes and drivers of transcultural connection” (European Journal of Communication, 2023); “Setting the Aware Agenda of the Covid-19 Health Emergency: The Italian Public Authorities’ Social Media Coverage” (IGI Global, 2021). “Aging Girls. Identità femmininile, sessualità e invecchiamento nella cultura mediale italiana” (with E. Mandelli, V. Re, Meltemi, 2021).
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