Biography

My research focuses on the intersection of digital and social media, political and visual communication and online journalism.  Currently my analysis embraces three distinct but complementary paths: I am particularly interested in how media frame immigration and ethnic groups and in the empirical connections between verbal, visual and textual frames. I also study how media affect the people’s perception and public opinion in relation to the politics and policies surrounding race and immigration. As a scholar and instructor of visual communication, I pay particular attention on how political institutions and political leaders use visual as a persuasion and propaganda tool.

Peer-reviewed publication:

Famulari, U. (2017). The Duce on the Screen: The image of Mussolini in the newsreels of the Istituto Luce. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 4(2), 249-265.

During my time here at Indiana University I taught courses in introduction to media, design and production and visual communication.