Leopoldina Fortunati

Leopoldina Fortunati
Born (1949-07-18) 18 July 1949
Province of Venice, Italy

Leopoldina Fortunati (born 18 July 1949) is an Italian feminist, theorist, and author. Her influences include Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Antonio Negri, and Karl Marx.

Work

She is the author of The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital (L'arcano della riproduzione: Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale, 1981), a feminist critique of Marx.[1] She also wrote I mostri nell’immaginario (FrancoAngeli, 1995).[2]

She is the editor of Gli Italiani al telefono (FrancoAngeli, 1995) and Telecomunicando in Europa (FrancoAngeli, 1998),[3][4] as well as Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication and Fashion with James E. Katz and Raimonda Riccini (Routledge, 2003).[5]

She has published articles in journals such as The Information Society,[6] Information, Communication & Society,[7] Widersprüche,[8] Personal and Ubiquitous Computing,[9] International Communication Gazette,[10] and Problemi dell'informazione.[11] Her works have been published in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

Fortunati teaches sociology at the University of Udine, Italy.[12] She has conducted extensive research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes, and communication and information technologies.[12][13][14]

She is the founding volume editor for the Human-Machine Communication journal,[15][16] an associate editor of the journal The Information Society,[17] a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Communication,[18] a past member of the international editorial board of the journal New Media & Society, and a referee for the journals Information, Communication & Society and Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.

She represented Italy in the COST Association's Technical Committee on Social Sciences and Humanities[19] and in the COST Action A20 "The Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe".[20] She was part of the European research project SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society)[21] and of COST248 "The Future European Telecommunications User"[19] and was the vice-chairperson of COST269 "User Aspects of ICTs".[22] She is the co-chair of the Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) which intends to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies.[23]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Hendry, Kika (2025-08-18). "Review | The Arcana of Reproduction". Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  2. ↑ "I mostri nell'immaginario". FrancoAngeli. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Gli italiani al telefono". FrancoAngeli. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  4. ↑ "Telecomunicando in Europa". FrancoAngeli. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  5. ↑ "Mediating the Human Body | Technology, Communication, and Fashion". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  6. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina (2014-05-27). "Media Between Power and Empowerment: Can We Resolve This Dilemma?". The Information Society. 30 (3): 169–183. doi:10.1080/01972243.2014.896676. ISSN 0197-2243.
  7. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina (2002). "The mobile phone: Towards new categories and social relations". Information, Communication & Society. 5 (4): 513–528. doi:10.1080/13691180208538803. ISSN 1369-118X.
  8. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina. "Die 'Minderheit' der Frauen". Widersprüche. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  9. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina (2001-07-01). "The Mobile Phone: An Identity on the Move". Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 5 (2): 85–98. doi:10.1007/PL00000017. ISSN 1617-4909.
  10. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina (2005-02-01). "Mediatization of the Net and Internetization of the Mass Media". International Communication Gazette. 67 (1): 27–44. doi:10.1177/0016549205049177. ISSN 0016-5492.
  11. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina (2005). "Forme di interattività. Un'indagine sui quotidiani on line in Italia". Problemi dell'informazione (1/2005). doi:10.1445/19685. ISSN 0390-5195.
  12. 1 2 "Leopoldina Fortunati". Gender Studies | Universität Basel (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  13. ↑ "Leopoldina Fortunati papers". Collections A-Z :: Brown University Library. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  14. ↑ "Leopoldina Fortunati". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  15. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina; Edwards, Autumn (2021-04-15). "Moving Ahead With Human-Machine Communication". Human-Machine Communication. 2 (1): 7–28. doi:10.30658/hmc.2.1. hdl:11390/1246431. ISSN 2638-6038.
  16. ↑ Fortunati, Leopoldina; Edwards, Autumn (2020-02-01). "Opening Space for Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Issues in Human-Machine Communication". Human-Machine Communication. 1: 7–18. doi:10.30658/hmc.1.1. ISSN 2638-6038.
  17. ↑ "Learn about The Information Society". Taylor & Francis Online. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  18. ↑ "Editorial Board | Journal of Communication". Oxford Academic.
  19. 1 2 "PUTTING THE SOCIAL INTO OLD AND NEW MEDIA". COST 50 years. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  20. ↑ "Action A20". COST. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  21. ↑ "STRATEGIES OF INCLUSION: GENDER AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY | SIGIS | Project | Fact Sheet | FP5". CORDIS | European Commission. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  22. ↑ "Cost 269 main home". cost269.free.fr. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  23. ↑ "Members". Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication. Retrieved 2026-05-05.

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