1971-1974
University of Rome (Italy), Doctorate Sociology (summa cum laude)

1966-1969
St Anselm College, Manchester, NH (USA), B.A. Sociology (magna cum laude)

2002-2016
Full Professor of Sociology of Communication, University of Milan

1997-2001
Associate Professor Sociology of Communication, University of Genova

1988-1997
Associate Professor Sociology of Communication, University of Salerno

1982-1988
Senior Researcher (tenured), University of Milan

1977-1982
Post-doc in Sociology of Communication, University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences

2018
ICA Fellow

10/2017
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Loughborough

9/2015
Visiting Professor, University of Toulouse, France

1-2/2015
Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle

1-7/2011
Visiting Professor, German Science Foundation, Freie Universitaet, Berlin

7/2007
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern Australia

1-5/2006
Visiting Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (USA)

1-2/2000
Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck

9-10/1998
Visiting Professor, Centre for Communication Research and Development,
University of Southern Queensland (Australia)

1-8/1995
Visiting Fellow, CeViPOF- Sciences-Po Paris

9-12/1992
Institute of Political Sciences, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1977-79
Junior Researcher, WZB-Wissenschafteszentrum Berlin

2020
David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship,
ICA (International Communication Association) and APSA (American Political Science Association)

2013
Alumni Academic Achievement Award,
St. Anselm College

1992
Premio Saint Vincent
(Award for the best book in Communication)

Universities of: Michigan (Ann Arbor), George Mason (Fairfax), Zurich, Duke (Durham), Griffith (Brisbane), Southern Australia (Adelaide), Complutense (Madrid), Valencia, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bamberg, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Central European University (Budapest), Swinburne (Melbourne), Mid Sweden (Sundsvall), Loughborough, East Anglia (Norwich), Dortmund, Lomonosov (Moscow), Poznan.

2019-2021
Member of the Fellows Book Award Committee of the International Communciation Association (ICA)

2007-2020
Founder and Head of the seven editions of the Milan International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior

2014-2016
Chair of Swanson Award Committee of the International Communication Association (ICA) and of the American Political Science Association (APSA)

2013
Program Planner and Organizer of the Political Communication Section of the European Association of Communication Research (ECREA)

2013
Program Planner and Organizer of the Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica

2014-2019
President of the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica

2004-2017
Member of Review Board of the Swiss National Science Foundation, NCCR Democracy, Zurich

2005-2006
Chair of the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)

2005 -2008
Board of Directors, International Communication Association (ICA)

2005-2009
Vice-chair of the Management Committee of COST ACTION A30: ‘East of West’, funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF)

2003-2004
Program Planner, Annual Conferences in New Orleans and New York, Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)

1998-2004
Chair of the Euromedia Research Group

2011-2015
Editor-in-Chief of The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, sponsored
by the International Communication Association (ICA) and published by Wiley (2016)

2000-2013
Co-Founder and Editor of Comunicazione Politica, Il Mulino (Italy)
2006-2010
Editor Book Series, Hampton Press

2010-2015
International Journal of Press/Politics, Sage

1998-2015
Political Communication, Taylor & Francis

since 1998
European Journal of Communication, Sage

since 1997
Journal of Political Marketing, Haworth Press

since 2008
Central European Journal of Communication

since 2014
Problemi dell’Informazione, Il Mulino

since 2016
Sociologia della Comunicazione, Franco Angeli

since 2013
Comunicazione Politica, Il Mulino

2011-2013
Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe. FP7-SSH-2009-A: MEDIAACT (Partner)

2008
Popularization of politics, going public and TV political entertainment.
Ministry of University and Scientific Research

2004
The permanent campaign: media, voters, players. Ministry of University and Scientific Research

2002
Local leadership and communication. Ministry of University and Scientific Research

1998
Climate of opinion and electoral campaigns: The European Elections 1999.
Ministry of University and Scientific Research