Leopoldina Fortunati was born on 18 July 1949 and is an Italian feminist, theorist, and author.
10 Facts About Leopoldina Fortunati
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Leopoldina Fortunati's influences include Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Antonio Negri, and Karl Marx.
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Leopoldina Fortunati is the author of The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital, a feminist critique of Marx.
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Leopoldina Fortunati teaches Sociology of Communication and Sociology of Cultural Processes at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine, Italy.
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Leopoldina Fortunati has conducted extensive research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes and communication and information technologies.
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Leopoldina Fortunati has published many articles in journals such as The Information Society, Information, Communication, Society, Reseaux, Trends in communication, Revista de Estudios de Juventud, Widerspruche, Personal and Ubiquitous computing, Gazette.
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Leopoldina Fortunati's works have been published in nine languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
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Leopoldina Fortunati is the founding volume editor for the Human-Machine Communication journal, an associate editor of the journal The Information Society, is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Communication and a past member of the international editorial board of the journal New Media and Society, and serves as referee for the journal Communication, Information, Society and Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.
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Leopoldina Fortunati represents Italy in the COST Technical Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities and in the action COST A20 "The Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe".
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Leopoldina Fortunati is the co-chair of the International Association "The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication" which intends to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies.