Filippo Trevisan Assistant Professor School of Communication
- Degrees
- BA International Relations, University of Trieste; MSc Political Communication, University of Glasgow; MRes Public Policy, University of Glasgow; PhD Political Communication and Public Policy, University of Glasgow.
- Bio
- Filippo Trevisan is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Deputy Director of the Institute on Disability and Public Policy at American University in Washington, D.C. After working as a reporter for Italy's largest private news agency in Rome, he completed his PhD and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. His research explores the impact of new media technologies on advocacy, activism, and political communication. His work investigates how elite and grassroots stakeholders use the Internet to influence debates about contested issues and affect policy decisions, including in combination with traditional protest and strategic communication techniques. His first book "Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity" (Routledge, 2017) reveals how a combination of social media activism and acute policy crises revolutionized the disability movement in the UK and the U.S., fueling the rise of new online self-advocacy networks. More broadly, he is interested in the growing personalization of collective action. Other major projects include a comparative study of how voters in different countries use search engines to find information about elections, for which he developed an innovative methodology that uses Google Trends data. His research has been published in top communication, disability, and political science journals including, among others: Information, Communication and Society; Disability and Society; Disability Studies Quarterly; the Australian Journal of Political Science; and First Monday.
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- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Fall 2018
Spring 2019
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Center for Media and Social Impact
Research Fellow -
Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP)
Deputy Director
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books
Trevisan, F. (2017) Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity. New York: Routledge (Now available in paperback).
Journal articles
Trevisan, F. (2019) "Using the Internet to Mobilize Marginalized Groups: People with Disabilities and Digital Campaign Strategies in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election," International Journal of Communication, 13: 1592-1611.
Trevisan, F. (2018) “Connective Action Mechanisms in a Time of Political Turmoil: Virtual Disability Protest at Donald Trump’s Inauguration,” Australian Journal of Political Science, 53(1): 103-115.
Trevisan, F., Hoskins, A., Oates, S., and Mahlouly, D. (2018) “The Google Voter: Search Engines and Elections in the New Media Ecology,” Information, Communication & Society, 21(1): 111-128.
Trevisan, F. (2017) “Crowd-Sourced Advocacy: Promoting Disability Rights through Online Storytelling,” Public Relations Inquiry, 6(2): 191-208. (Click here for a pre-print version of this article: Trevisan_Crowd-scourced advocacy_Pre-print)
Pearson, C. and Trevisan, F. (2015) “Disability Activism in the New Media Ecology: Campaigning Strategies in the Digital Era,” Disability & Society, 30(6): 924-940.
Trevisan, F. (2014) “Search Engines: From Social Science Objects to Academic Inquiry Tools.” First Monday, 19(11).
Trevisan, F., and Reilly, P. (2014) “Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sensitive Issues Online: Lessons from the Study of British Disability Dissent Networks,” Information, Communication and Society, 17(9): 1131-1146.
Reports
Cogburn, D.L. and Trevisan, F. (2018) Accessibility in Global Governance: The (In)Visibility of Persons with Disabilities – Barriers to Effective Participation and Recommended Solutions. Washington, D.C.: Institute on Disability and Public Policy.
Trevisan, F. (2016) “The View from Across the Pond: Brexit on American Media” in Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., and Wring, D. (Eds.) EU Referendum Analysis 2016: Media, Voters, and the Campaign. Political Studies Association, Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community at Bournemouth University, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University.
Media
Trevisan, F. (2018) In Italy, Fake News Helps Populists and Far-Right Triumph, The Conversation, March 5.
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
European politics (Italy, UK), information technology and politics, search engines, grassroots advocacy and protest, disability rights.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.