Hi, nice to meet you…

…Alberto here, I am PhD candidate Simon Fraser University, School of Communication. As you might have already read on these pages, in my research project Labora I am investigating the discourse and the praxes of the startup economy. As a first time ethnographer, I spent nearly two years observing and interviewing the people working in Vancouver’s digital and new media industries.

Throughout my PhD journey, I also worked as Research Assistant at SFU’s GenaLab, where I conducted research on social media’s role in the formation of public opinion about emerging technologies (Direct to consumer genetic tests and blockchain).

Since 2018, I am the editor in chief of Stream, SFU School of Communication graduate journal.

Prior to starting my PhD, I was a Research Fellow at the European Centre for Living Technology at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. There, I was involved in two European projects on innovation and sustainability: Insite and Emergence by Design.

What follows is a list of my academic contributions.

Peer-reviewed papers:

Lusoli, A., & Turner, F. (2021). “It’s an Ongoing Bromance”: Counterculture and Cyberculture in Silicon Valley—An Interview with Fred Turner. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(2), 235–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492620941075.
- Full paper available here
- Green route Open Access copy available here
Lusoli, A. (2020). Teaching business as business: The role of the case method in the constitution of management as a science-based profession. Journal of Management History, 26(2), 277–290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-06-2019-0042
- Synopsis of the paper + data viz
- Green route Open Access copy available here
Chow-White, P., Lusoli, A., Phan, V. T. A., & Green, S. E. (2020). ‘Blockchain Good, Bitcoin Bad’: The Social Construction of Blockchain in Mainstream and Specialized Media. Journal of Digital Social Research, 2(2), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v2i2.34
- Full Open Access paper available here.
Chow-White, P., Struve, S., Lusoli, A., Lesage, F., Saraf, N., & Oldring, A. (2018). ‘Warren Buffet is my cousin’: shaping public understanding of big data biotechnology, direct-to-consumer genomics, and 23andMe on Twitter. Information, Communication & Society, 21(3), 448–464. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1285951
Lusoli, A., & Sardo, S. (2017). Build it and They will Come: Analysis of an Online Deliberation Initiative. PlaNext – next Generation Planning, 4, 41–57. https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt.2017.04.004
- Open Access copy available here

Book reviews:

Lusoli, A. (2020). The platform economy. How Japan transformed the consumer internet. Information, Communication & Society, 23(1), 155–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1668041

Free & open source software:

Meetup Archiver: API Connector, (2019), GitHub repository, https://github.com/albertolusoli/meetup_api
Meetup Archiver: Dashboard, (2019), GitHub repository, https://github.com/albertolusoli/meetupdashboard

Conference presentations:

2021

Occupational Communities and the Democratization of Startup Labor
Feb. 25 2021, IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre + Virtual. Slides.
Figurations of Mediation: Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change in the Media Manifold
Feb. 25 2021, IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre + Virtual. Slides.

2020

‘Blockchain Is Out of Beta’: The Social Construction of Blockchain in Mainstream and Specialized Media
May 20-26 2020, 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Virtual Conference. Video Presentation.
From Praxis to Knowledge: A Retrospective on the Diffusion of the Case Method Pedagogy in Business Education
May 20-26 2020, 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Virtual Conference. Video presentation.

2019

“Talking about business: The role of occupational communities in the democratization of labour in startup companies”
September 2019, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA. Video presentation.
“The role of occupational communities in Vancouver’s digital media industry”
June 2019, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) 2019 Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Slides
Poster presentation: “Ethnography of/in/through digital platforms: opportunities and challenges”
May 2019, 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Washington, DC, USA

2018

“Teaching Business as Business: the role of Harvard’s Case Method in the Construction of the Modern Manager”
July 2018, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, ON, Canada.
“The Role of Occupational Communities in the Democratization of Labour in Startup Companies. a Data-Driven Ethnographic Approach”
July 2018, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, ON, Canada.
“Understanding labor in startup ventures: a data-driven ethnographic approach”
Feb 26th 2018, Work in the 21st Century: Innovations in Research, Vancouver, BC. Canada. Slides

2017

“The social shaping of DTC genetic testing. Sentiment analysis of 23andMe on Twitter”
May 27th 2017, International Communication Association. 67th Annual Conference, San Diego, USA. Slides

2015

“Innovation in Civic Engagement: Analysis of and e-deliberation project”
Aug. 5th 2015, Connectados por la Paz, Bogota, Colombia. Slides
“Contextualizing Technology: a Study on Emerging Functionalities in Digital Artifacts”
May 5th 2015, Mediacity 5, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.

2014

“ICT and emerging functionalities: analysis of an e-deliberation experiment”
June 2014, 5th, Conference of the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Slides
“E-deliberation in Cesena: a very serious game”
April 2014, Narrations and communities: building communities for making citizenship, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. Slides

2013

“Fostering sustainability through civic engagement”.
October 2013, Games, Science & Society, International Institute Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. Slides
“Games and Gamification”
March 2013, Visions in Global Systems Science: Narratives as a Communication Tool for Scientists, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Slides

2012

“Videogames, a new kind of narrative”
October 2012, Envisioning a Socially Sustainable Future: Models, Narratives, Art, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. Slides