Dipartimento di Scienza Politica e Sociologia (edificio D5) Via delle Pandette, 21 I-50127 Firenze Phone +39 55 4374432 Fax +39 55 4374931 E-Mail: bechelloni@unifi.it

Position

Full Professor of Sociology of cultural and communicative processes since 1980, he is the head of the Communication Programme in the Faculty of Political Science (University of Florence) PhD, Master, Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Distance Learning.

Publications and research activities

Author of 30 books and 250 articles on media, cultural policy, collective memory and identities, political communication; his main fields of interest and research are:

• journalism and globalization
• television and everyday life
• Italian transnational identity
• Communication

Latest publications

In the last three years he published five books (some of which are in the processes of being translated in English, Spanish and Portuguese) which try to construct new paradigms from the standing point of communication (a communicative view on history and globalization):

• Il silenzio e il rumore. Destino e fortune degli italici nel mondo, Mediascape, Roma-Firenze 2004
• Diventare cittadini del mondo. Comunicazione e cosmopolitismo responsabile, Mediascape, Roma-Firenze 2003
• Equivoci giochi. Lo stile cognitivo di un artigiano delle parole, Mediascape, Roma-Firenze 2003
• Diventare italiani. Coltivare e comunicare la memoria collettiva, Ipermedium, Napoli 2003
• Svolta comunicativa. Sette lezioni, Ipermedium, Napoli 2002

International experience

He was invited as a visiting scholar or professor in European and American universities: Kassel (G), Dijon and Paris (F), London and Manchester (UK), Barcelona Autonoma and Madrid (E), Roskilde (D), Budapest (U), Lisbona and Coimbra (P), Sao Paulo (B), Santiago (Cile), Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, San Diego, Wisconsin, Michigan, Syracuse, Harvard, Philadelphia, Berkeley (USA), SFU-Vancouver and Ryarson-Toronto, Montreal and Laval-Quebec (Canada), Sidney (Australia), Jerusalem (Israele)

Awards

• 1962 for his doctoral thesis ?The crisis of reformism 1910-1912?
• 1983 for his book ?The craft of journalism? (Liguori)
• 1996 for his book ?Television as culture? (Liguori)

Memberships

• International Sociological Association (ISA)
• International Political Science Association
• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (AIS)
• Associazione per l'Economia della Cultura (AEC)
• Consiglio Italiano per le Scienze Sociali (CSS)
  
  He is in the board of journals and contributes to Italian newspaper since 1966. His previous positions in academic and extra-academic fields include: teaching in the Universities of Bari and Naples, being the Dean of Department in Sociology in Naples and Florence; being the Head of Private Centers, Foundations or Associations (CIRD, CESDI, Hypercampo?) in the business of doing and promoting sociological research, publishing journals and books.