Books
2024 (280 pages)
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Quantum Ecology
This book, which lays out the contours of a “theory of open reality”, explores today’s “epistemological crisis” and the emergence of the quantum ecology as both an epistemological framework and a technological paradigm to make sense of the impact of quantum information technologies on consciousness and cultures.
2019 (190 pages)
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(De)scrivere la Cina in viaggio
Attraverso un confronto tra libri e blog di viaggio contemporanei dedicati alla Cina, scritti da autori di varia provenienza (italiani, inglesi, francesi e cinesi), questo volume vuole rinnovare il dibattito sulla politica del genere odeporico attraverso la sua poetica.
Beyond the Genre
What is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre affected by digital technologies? This volume provides answers to these questions by adopting a transmedial perspective enriched with original interviews with travel writers from around the world.
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Phillip Lopate, una vita allo schermo
Questo lavoro monografico propone una ricognizione della produzione del saggista e critico americano Phillip Lopate, in grado di far emergere sia il soggettivismo stilistico dei suoi scritti sul cinema, sia la sua visione lucida, talvolta fulminante, riguardo i critici cinematografici americani.
Mediating Travel Writing, Mediated China
Tapping into two mirroring desires – the discovery of other cultures and the reaffirmation of one’s own identity – the intertwinement between travel and writing is as old as human history. This book maps such link with regard to China as represented in print and online.
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In Vietnam. Digressioni di viaggio
Percorrere chilometri e chilometri e poi riversare tutto sulla pagina, tessendo una rete di rimandi che intrecciano storia collettiva e personale. Il viaggio di Stefano Calzati in Vietnam è un continuo oscillare tra la strada e la penna, tra il Sé e il mondo.
(Academic) articles, chapters, proceedings
2025
- Calzati, S., Nikiforova, A., Travagnin, M. (under review). “Enabling the EU’s Digital Sovereignty: A Europe-level Quantum Internet as the Key Infrastructure for a European Digital Polity.” Telecommunications Policy
- Edelmann, N., Sasdelli, D., Nowak, R. & Calzati, S. (under review). “Applying Ethics Frameworks to Digital Disaster Management Communication in the Public Sector: The case of the SOS Rio Grande do Sul Platform.” Journal of Responsible Technology
- Calzati, S. & de Kerckhove, D. (2025). “The Quantum Ecology as an Onto-Epistemological Framework: Toward an Ecological Theory of Sensing.” Digital Society (preprint here)
- Calzati, S., van Loenen B. (2025). “The Data Republic: Fostering a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Data Ecosystem for the European Union.” Frontiers in Political Science.
- Calzati, S. (2025). “An Ecosystemic View on Information Data and Knowledge: Insights on Agential AI and Relational Ethics.” AI and Ethics.
- Calzati, S. (2025). “On the Current (Im)possibility of Achieving Public Value through the EU’s Digital Strategy: An Ethics Method to Seek a ‘Collectual’ Equilibrium.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
- Calzati, S. (2025). “From Data Governance to Data Ethics: Invoking Epistemological Plurality for Enabling a Critical Turn in ICT4D.” In Critical ICT4D (Information & Communication Technologies for Development), Akbari, A., and Maniero, S. (Ed). London: Routledge.
2024
- Calzati, S. and Ploeger, H. (2024). “Problem-solving? No, problem-opening! A Method to Reframe and Teach Data Ethics as a Transdisciplinary Endeavour” Big Data & Society.
- Calzati, S. (2024). “Are Huawei ‘Smart Cities’ Forms of Data Colonialism? A Discursive and Governance-Model Analysis from South Africa and Italy.” In Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: Data, Infrastructure, and Services, edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2023
- Duenas Cid, D., Calzati, S. (2023). “Trust, Distrust and Data-Driven Technologies.” Internet Policy Review.
- Calzati, S. (2023). “No Longer Hype, Not Yet Mainstream? Recalibrating City Digital Twins’ Expectations and Implementations: A Case Study Perspective.” Frontiers in Big Data.
- Calzati, S. (2023). “Shaping a Data Commoning Polity: Prospects and Challenges of a European Digital Sovereignty.” In International Conference on Electronic Participation (pp. 151-166). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Calzati, S., van Loenen, B. (2023). “Towards a Citizen- and Citizenry-Centric Digitalization of the Urban Environment: Urban Digital Twinning as Commoning.” Digital Society.
- Calzati, S., van Loenen, B. (2023). “Beyond Federated Data: A Data Commoning Proposition for the EU’s Citizen- centric Digital Strategy.” AI & Society.
- Calzati, S., van Loenen, B. (2023). “A Fourth Way to the Digital Transformation: The Data Republic as a Fair Data Ecosystem.” Data & Policy
- Calzati, S. (2023). “From Big Data Epistemology to AI Politics: Rescuing the Public Dimension over Data-driven Technologies.” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.
- Calzati, S., van Loenen, B. (2023). “An Ethics Assessment List for Geoinformation Ecosystems: Revisiting the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework of the United Nations.” International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(1), 1418-1438.
- Masso, A., Manniste, M., Calzati, S. (2023). “The Social Imaginaries on Governance through Data: Q-Methodological Analysis of Data Professionals’ Views in the Field of Mobility.” Futures.
- Calzati, S. (2023). “Huawei Knowledge Transfer in Africa: Corporate Communication and Users’ Responses on Social Networks.” Global Media and Communication.
2022
- Calzati, S., Santos, F., Casarola, G. (2022). “On the (Non)Institutional Disclosure of Urban Commons: Evidence, Practices and Challenges From the Netherlands and Belgium.” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
- Masso, A., Chukwu, M., Calzati, S. (2022). “(Non)negotiable Spaces of Algorithmic Governance: Perceptions on the Ubenwa Health App as a ‘Relocated’ Solution.” New Media and Society.
- Calzati, S. (2022). “‘Data sovereignty’ or ‘Data colonialism’? Exploring the Chinese involvement in Africa’s ICTs: a document review in Kenya.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
- Calzati, S. (2022). “Federated Data as a Commons: A Third Way to Subject-centric and Collective-centric Approaches to Data Epistemology and Politics.” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.
2021
- Kasapoglu, T., Masso, A., Calzati, S. (2021). “Unpacking Algorithms as Technologies of Power: Syrian Refugees and Data Experts on Algorithmic Automated Governance.” Digital Geography and Society.
- Abaku, T., Calzati, S., Masso, A. (2021). “Exploring Digital Sustainability of/through Estonia’s e-Residency: Africa’s Case and the Importance of Culture for Sustainability.” Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance.
2020
- Calzati, S. (2020). “Travel Writing in Motion: The Media(tisa)tion of the Genre on/through the Web and by Artificial Intelligence.” In: B. Korte and A. K. Sennefelder (Ed.). Travel, Writing, and the Media: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. London: Routledge.
- Calzati, S. (2020). “Practicing Online Travel Writing: How My Blogging and Australia Met.” International Journal of Transmedia Literacy.
- Calzati, S. (2020). “Decolonising ‘Data Colonialism’: Propositions for Investigating the Realpolitik of Today’s Networked Ecology.” Television & New Media.
- Calzati, S. (2020). “China, Africa, and the West: A Geopolitical Assessment of Huawei’s Crisis Communication on Social Networks.” International Journal of Communication, 14, 1-21.
- Calzati, S. (2020). “Digital Autoethnography & Connected Intelligence: Two Qualitative Practice-Based Teaching Methods for the Digital Humanities.” Umanistica Digitale, 8, 105-121.
2019
- Calzati, S. (2019). “Adding Three Layers to the Skin: The Book as a Dialogue, Method, and Bridge (Preface to The New Skin of Culture by Derrick de Kerckhove). In: The New Skin of Culture. (5−7). China: Encyclopaedia of China Publishing House.
- Calzati, S. (2019). “Online Technologies and Teaching: A Benjaminian Proposal for Reconsidering the Efficacy of In- Class and Online Courses.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 42 (4), 29-38.
- Calzati, S., Simanowski, R. (2019). “Facebook Overwrites Its Users: How the Platform Jeopardized the ‘Social’ and Occupied the ‘Network’.” International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, 5.
- Calzati, S. (2019). “Cross-medialità odeporica: Dai blogs all’intelligenza artificiale.” Revista Texto Digital, 15 (1).
- Calzati, S. (2019). “L’impossibile rappresentazione: la Cina negli scritti di viaggio italiani contemporanei.” Italogramma, 16.
- Calzati, S., Lopez-Varela, A. (2019). “Transmediality as a Strategy. Critical and Technical Expertise for Today’s Media Galaxy [issue introduction].” International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, 5.
2018
- Calzati, S.; Simanowski, R. (2018). “Self-Narratives on Social Networks: Trans-Platforms Stories and Facebook’s Metamorphosis into a Postmodern Semi-Automated Repository.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 41 (1), 24−47.
- Calzati, S. (2018). “A Proposal for Survival: Barbaric Strategies in the Realm of Digital Technologies.” Parallax, 24 (2), 209−226.
- Mourenza, D.; Stainforth, L.; Calzati, S. (2018). “Barbarisms [issue introduction].” Parallax, 24 (2), 129−133.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2018). “Autori ‘resistenti’: Phillip Lopate e il personal essay.” Bollettino ’900, 1-2.
2016
- Calzati, Stefano (2016). “Practicing Online Travel Writing: How My Blogging and Australia Met.” International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, 2(1).
- Calzati, Stefano. (2016). “Travel Narratives in Print and on the Blogosphere: Different Literary Forms and Representations of China by Western Travellers.” Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, 13(2): 153-174.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2016). “Chinese Travel Writing between (Print) Tradition and (Digital) Novelty: A Transmedial Approach to Contemporary Travel Books and Blogs.” Chinese Journal of Communication.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2016). “Chinese Domestic Tourism, the Blogosphere and Travel Writing: Assessing the Literary and Political Status of Chinese Travelogues in Print and Online.” Global Media and China.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2016). “Online and Offline Travel Writings: Paratexts in Travel Blogs, Travel Books’ Hypertextuality, and Medial Formats’ Usage.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 18(2).
2015
- Calzati, Stefano. (2015). “Travels & Tourists in the Middle Kingdom: Two Insider Perspectives.” Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), 72: 12.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2015). “Travel Writing on the Edge: An Intermedial Approach to Travel Books and Travel Blogs.” Film and Media Studies, Vol. 10: 153-168.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2015). “Travelling and Writing and the Form of Travel Writing: Reconsidering Bill Bryson (Supposed) Postcolonial Legacy.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(4): 422-435.
2013
- Calzati, Stefano. (2013). “Intermediality, Multimodality and Medial Chronotopes: A Comparison between The Travel Book and the Travel Blog.” Caracteres 3(1): 99-113.
- Calzati, Stefano. (2013). “Alcune riflessioni critiche sul processo di rimediazione dei blog.”Bollettino ’900, 1-2.
2012
- Calzati, Stefano. (2012). “Power and Representation in Anglo-American Travel Blogs and Travel Books about China.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14(5).
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