Gabriele Balbi#
| Membership Number: | 6835 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://usi.to/cyi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7752-277X |
Gabriele Balbi is Full Professor in Media Studies at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). At this institution, he is also Pro-Rector for Education and Students' Experience, director of the China Media Observatory, and vice director of the Institute of Media and Journalism. In the academic community, he is currently chair of the ICA Communication History Division, a member of the steering committee of the MediaHistory.ch association, and member of the Section committee of the Film, Media and Visual Studies Section at the Academia Europeae. He received a BA and MA in Communication Sciences at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2002 and 2004 and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Social History of Communication at USI in 2008. He was Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University in 2012 and 2013. He has been visiting professor at several universities in different countries: Harvard, Maastricht, Columbia, Westminster, Oxford, Northumbria, Perugia, Augsburg, Concordia, and Bologna. His main research area is media and communication history, with a focus on the history of telecommunications, the history of digital media, conceptual history of the media, and maintenance and communication in longue durée.
Current Positions
- Oct 2022-now Full Professor of Media Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Switzerland
- Jan 2024-now Pro-Rector for Education and Students’ Experience, Università della Svizzera italiana.
- Jun 2024-now Chair ICA Communication History Division.
- Nov 2024-now, Board member of the association MediaHistory.ch:
- Jan 2025-now Member of the Section Committee of Film, Media and Visual Studies Section, Academia Europeae.
Fields of Scholarship
- Political economy of communication
- Media history
- Science and technology studies
- Media archaeology
- Communication history
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