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Nicola Bozzi

Dr Nicola Bozzi BA, MA, PhD

Nicola Bozzi joined the University of 杏吧app下载 in 2023, teaching primarily across the BA Media Communications. Before 杏吧app下载, he worked for King’s College London and the London College of Communication. He obtained his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Salford in 2020.


Nicola’s professional background in the creative industries spans more than a decade, and it includes working as a web designer in Milan, content editor in Amsterdam, and freelance writer covering diverse cultural topics across Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.


As a lecturer, Nicola has taught in a range of programmes spanning across media, communications, content management, and cultural studies. His teaching focus is on social media and visual culture, investigated through both critique and practice.

Film, media and sound

Responsibilities within the university

Lecturer in Critical Media Practice

Recognition

Member of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) since 2019.

Research / Scholarly interests

Nicola’s research focus is broadly on identities and the way they circulate, with a focus on the delicate balance between creativity and conformity, imagination and optimisation.


His current academic work explores these themes in the context of digital platforms and social media aesthetics. Drawing from both Internet sociology and cultural critique, Nicola has published on journals like Social Media + Society and Television and New Media, exploring the intersection of representation and infrastructuring processes, and paying particular attention to platformed templates for contemporary masculinity. He is currently working on a book about these topics.


Apart from his academic work, Nicola has been a prolific freelance writer, contributing articles about contemporary art, urbanism, media and technology for a range of international publications that include Domus, Frieze, Elephant, and Wired Italia. He also curates an occasional newsletter about comedy, media, and culture titled Letdown Comedy. He is active on social media as @schizocities.

Recent publications

Journal Articles

  • Bozzi, N. (2024). Platforming the Joe Rogan Experience: Cancel Culture, Comedy, and Infrastructure. Television & New Media, 0(0).
  • Bozzi, N., (2023) “Machine Vision and Tagging Aesthetics: Assembling Socio-Technical Subjects through New Media Art”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2).
  • Bozzi, N. (2020) . A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Networks (APRJA), 9 (1). pp. 70-81. ISSN 2245-7755 
  • Bozzi, N. (2020). #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 6(2).

Book Chapters

  • Bozzi, N. & Brilli, S. (2024) In: Graham, R. S., Humer, S. G., Lee, C. S. & Nagy, V., (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance. Routledge, London, pp. 1-18 ()
  • Bozzi, N. (2021) . In: Wiest, J.B., (ed.) Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 20). Studies in Media and Communications, 20. Emerald Publishing ()