Key details
Dr Nicola Bozzi
Nicola Bozzi joined the University of Greenwich in 2023, teaching primarily across the BA Media Communications. Before Greenwich, he worked for King’s College London and the London College of Communication. He obtained his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Salford in 2020.
Nicola’s professional background in the creative industries spans more than a decade, and it includes working as a web designer in Milan, content editor in Amsterdam, and freelance writer covering diverse cultural topics across Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
As a lecturer, Nicola has taught in a range of programmes spanning across media, communications, content management, and cultural studies. His teaching focus is on social media and visual culture, investigated through both critique and practice.
Responsibilities within the university
Lecturer in Critical Media Practice
Recognition
Member of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) since 2019.
Research / Scholarly interests
Nicola’s research focus is broadly on identities and the way they circulate, with a focus on the delicate balance between creativity and conformity, imagination and optimisation.
His current academic work explores these themes in the context of digital platforms and social media aesthetics. Drawing from both Internet sociology and cultural critique, Nicola has published on journals like Social Media + Society and Television and New Media, exploring the intersection of representation and infrastructuring processes, and paying particular attention to platformed templates for contemporary masculinity. He is currently working on a book about these topics.
Apart from his academic work, Nicola has been a prolific freelance writer, contributing articles about contemporary art, urbanism, media and technology for a range of international publications that include Domus, Frieze, Elephant, and Wired Italia. He also curates an occasional newsletter about comedy, media, and culture titled Letdown Comedy. He is active on social media as @schizocities.
Recent publications
Journal Articles
- Bozzi, N. (2024). Platforming the Joe Rogan Experience: Cancel Culture, Comedy, and Infrastructure. Television & New Media, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241277476
- Bozzi, N., (2023) “Machine Vision and Tagging Aesthetics: Assembling Socio-Technical Subjects through New Media Art”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2). https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.10023
- Bozzi, N. (2020) Tagging aesthetics: from networks to cultural avatars. A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Networks (APRJA), 9 (1). pp. 70-81. ISSN 2245-7755 https://aprja.net/article/view/121490
- Bozzi, N. (2020). #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120926644
Book Chapters
- Bozzi, N. & Brilli, S. (2024) Branding the “Bandito Influencer”: studying cross-platform fame and deviance in the cases of Er Brasiliano and 1727wrldStar. In: Graham, R. S., Humer, S. G., Lee, C. S. & Nagy, V., (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance. Routledge, London, pp. 1-18 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277675-43)
- Bozzi, N. (2021) Dramatization of the @GANGSTA: Instagram cred in the age of glocalized gang culture. In: Wiest, J.B., (ed.) Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 20). Studies in Media and Communications, 20. Emerald Publishing (https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000020010)