Publications
I am recognized as part of the top 2% of scholars in the world, according to Stanford University’s prestigious list of “World’s Top 2% Scientists.” This distinction highlights my contributions to research and scholarship, placing me among the most influential researchers across various scientific disciplines. I have published 9 monographs, 8 edited books (Palgrave, Routledge, Lexington Books and Amsterdam University Press), edited 10 special issues, and more than 80 articles and chapters. I have published in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.
Monographs:
- Ruiu, ML. and Ragnedda, M. (2024), Digital-Environmental Poverty. Digital and environmental inequalities in the post-covid era, Palgrave.
- Ragnedda, Massimo (2020), Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the Digital Underclass. Palgrave.
- Ragnedda, Massimo, and Maria Laura Ruiu, (2020) Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian approach to Digital Divide, Emeralds Publishing.
- Ragnedda, Massimo, (2017) The third Digital Divide: a Weberian approach to digital inequalities, Routledge.
- Ragnedda M. (2011) Comunicazione e propaganda. Il ruolo dei media nella formazione dell’opinione pubblica, Aracne Editrice, Roma, ISBN 978-88-548-3774-4, pp. 224.
- Ragnedda M. (2008) La società postpanottica. Controllo sociale e nuovi media, Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2008, ISBN 978-88-548-1645-9, pp. 204.
- Ragnedda M. (2006) Eclissi o tramonto del pensiero critico. Il ruolo dei mass media nella società postmoderna, Aracne Editrice, Roma, , ISBN 88-548-0516-5, pp. 154.
- Ragnedda M. (2004), Il sacrificio, Colibri, Milano, ISBN 88-86345-55-0, pp. 180.
- Ragnedda M. (2002),Warshow: la guerra mediatica, Nephila edizioni, Firenze. ISBN 88-88380-09-4., pp 174.
Edited Special Issues
- Muschert, Ragnedda M., (2024) Digital Inequalities in the Middle East and North Africa” Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
- Robinson L., Schulz J., Ragnedda M., Chiaraluce, C. (2023), Digitizing the Pandemic: COVID-19 Communication and Media, American Behavioral Scientist.
- Robinson L., Schulz J., Ragnedda M. (2022), Mediating Crisis: Covid-19 and beyond. First Monday.
- Muschert, Ragnedda M., (2021) Sustainability and Digital Transformation, First Monday.
- Ragnedda M., Muschert (2021) Digital Sustainability, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance.
- Robinson L., Schulz J., McClain N., Ragnedda M., Khlnani A., (2021) Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19 , American Behavioral Scientist
- Mutsvairo B, Ragnedda M., and Orgeret K.S. (2020). Era or Error of Transformation? Assessing Afrocentric Attributes to Digitalization. Information, Communication and Society.
- Robinson L., Schulz J., Ragnedda M., Straubhaar J., Khilnani A., (2020) Global Perspectives on Digital Inequalities. First Monday.
- Robinson L, Ragnedda M. and Schulz J. (2020). Digital Inequalities: Contextualizing Problems and Solutions. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society.
- Ragnedda M., and Muschert Glenn (2015), Max Weber and Digital Divide. International Journal of Communication. (SJR: Q1, Communication and Sociology)
Edited Books:
- Hopeton, D., Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, M.L., and Robinson, L. (eds) (2024), The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life. Palgrave.
- Şentürk, M., Ragnedda, M., and Muschert GW. (eds) (2023), New Media/New Society? Istanbul University Press.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, Digital Inequalities in the Global South, Palgrave, 2020.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Giuseppe Destefanis (eds). Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges, Routledge, 2019.
- Mutsvairo Bruce and Ragnedda, Massimo (eds), Mapping Key Perspectives on Digital Divide in Africa. Amsterdam University Press (AUP), 2019.
- Ragnedda, Massimo and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds), Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis, Lexington Books, 2018.
- Ragnedda, Massimo, Muschert Glenn (eds), Theorizing Digital Divide, Routledge, 2018.
- Ragnedda, Massimo, Muschert Glenn (eds) (2013), The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective, Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- Ruiu, M. L., Ragnedda, M., (2024). Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus. Media, Culture and Society (SJR: Q1 Communication).
- Ruiu, G., Ruiu, M. L., Ragnedda, M., & Akinyoade, A. (2024). Perception of Climate Change among Vulnerable Groups and Religious Faiths in Nigeria. Review of Religious Research, 0(0). (SJR: Q1 Philosophy).
- Muschert, G. W., and Ragnedda, M. (2024). Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa. Convergence, 0(0). (SJR: Q1 Communication).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. and Addeo, F. (2024), Exploring Digital-Environment Habitus in Italy—How Digital Practices Reflect Users’ Environmental Orientations? Sustainability, 16, 4880, (SJR: Q1 Geography, Planning and Development).
- Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, M.L., and Calderón-Gómez, D., (2024), Examining the Interplay of Sociodemographic and Sociotechnical Factors on Users’ Perceived Digital Skills, Media and Communication, Volume 12, Article 8167 (SJR: Q1 Communication).
- Addeo, F., D’Auria, V., Delli Paoli, A., Punziano, G., Ragnedda, M., and Ruiu, M.L. (2023). Measuring Digital Capital in Italy. Frontiers in Sociology, 8. (SJR: Q1 Social Sciences).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, G., (2023), Between ‘empowering’ and ‘blaming’ mechanisms in developing political/economic responses to climate change, Sociological Inquiry. (SJR: Q1 Sociology and Political Science).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ragnedda, M., Addeo, F., Ruiu, G., (2023), Investigating how the interaction between individual and circumstantial determinants influence the emergence of digital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families with children in England, Information, Communication and Society. (SJR: Q1 Communication).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. (2023), Digital-Environmental habitus of families in England in times of Pandemic. New Media and Society. (SJR: Q1, Communication).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ruiu, G., Ragnedda, M. (2022), Lack of ‘common sense’ in the climate change debate: Media behaviour and climate change awareness, International Sociology (SJR: Q1, Sociology and Political Science).
- Ruiu, M.L., Ragnedda, M. (2022), Comparing the Empowerment Dynamics of Traditional Media and Social News Sites: The Case of GameStop, Digital Journalism (SJR: Q1, Communication).
- Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, M.L., Addeo, F., (2022). The self-reinforcing effect of digital and social exclusion: The inequality loop. Telematics and Informatics 72, 101852. (SJR: Q1, Communication).
- Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, ML., Addeo, F., (2022), How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital, New Media and Society.
- Mutsvairo, B., Ragnedda, M., and Mabvudwi, K. (2022). Our old pastor thinks the mobile phone is a source of evil. Capturing Contested and Conflicting Insights on Digital Wellbeing and Digital Detoxing in an age of rapid mobile connectivity. Media International Australia.
- Gladkova, A, Ragnedda, M, and Vartanova A. (2022), Tensions between Digital Inequalities and Digital Learning Opportunities in Russian Universities during the Pandemic, First Monday.
- Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, ML., Addeo, F., Delli Paola A., (2022), Converting Digital Capital in Five Key Life Realms. Italian Sociological Review.
- Calderon, D, Ragnedda, M. and Ruiu, ML (2021), Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-demographic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet, European Journal of Communication.
- Ruiu ML., and Ragnedda M. (2021), Use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change, Studies in Communication Sciences, pp. 1-20.
- Ruiu, ML., Ruiu, G., and Ragnedda, M. (2021), Conceptualisation of Techno-Environmental Habitus, First Monday, 26(11). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i11.12353
- Robinson, L., Schulz, J., Ragnedda, M., Pait, H.; Kwon, K.H; Khilnani, A. (2021), An Unequal Pandemic: Vulnerability and COVID-19, American Behavioral Scientist, 2021;65(12):1603-1607. doi:10.1177/00027642211003141
- Sparviero, S. and Ragnedda, M. (2021), Towards Digital Sustainability: The Long Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 23 No. 3, pp. 216-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-01-2021-0015.
- Ruiu, ML, and Ragnedda, M. (2021) Between online and offline solidarity: lessons learned from the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy, American Behavioral Scientist.
- Ruiu, G., Ruiu, ML, and Ragnedda, M. (2021) Change in Climate Perception Prompted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, American Behavioral Scientist.
- Mutsvairo, B., Ragnedda, M. & Skare Orgeret, K. (2021) Era or error of transformation? Assessing afrocentric attributes to digitalization, Information, Communication & Society.
- Robinson L., Schulz J., McClain N., Hale T.M, Pait E., Ragnedda M., Straubhaar J., Khilnani A (2020), Global Perspectives on Digital Inequalities and Solutions to Them, First Monday 25(7).
- Ruiu, ML., Ragnedda, M., Ruiu, G., (2020), Similarities and differences in managing the Covid-19 crisis and climate change risk, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 24 No. 10, pp. 2597-2614.
- Gladkova, A., Ragnedda, M. (2020), Exploring Digital Inequalities in Russia: an interregional comparative analysis, Online Information Review, DOI (10.1108/OIR-04-2019-0121).
- Maria Laura Ruiu and Massimo Ragnedda (2020), Examining the second level of the digital divide through the lens of Digital Capital. First Monday 25(7).
- Gladkova, A., Vartanova, E., Ragnedda, M. (2020), Digital divide and digital capital in multiethnic Russian society, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1745212
- Robinson, L., Schulz, J. Ragnedda, et al. (2020), Digital Inequalities 2.0: Legacy Inequalities in the Information Age. First Monday.
- Robinson, L., Ragnedda, M. and Schulz, J. (2020), Digital inequalities: contextualizing problems and solutions, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 323-327.
- Robinson, L, Schulz, J., Ragnedda, M., et al. (2020), Digital Inequalities 3.0: Emergent Inequalities in the Information Age. First Monday.
- Mutsvairo, B. & Ragnedda, M. (2019). Does Digital Exclusion Undermine Social Media’s Democratizing Capacity? New Global Studies, doi:10.1515/ngs-2019-0035
- Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, and Felice Addeo (2019). Measuring Digital Capital: An empirical investigation. New Media and Society. 1-24.
- Gladkova, A., Garifullin, V., & Ragnedda, M. (2019). Model tryokh urovnei tsifrovogo neravenstva: sovremennye vozmozhnosti i ogranicheniya [Model of three levels of the digital divide: current advantages and limitations] Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika, 4.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Hanna Kreitem (2018), The three levels of digital divide in East EU countries, World of Media.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2018), Conceptualizing Digital Capital, Telematics and Informatics, Elsevier.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2018), Il digital divide. Le disuguaglianze digitali e i suoi vari livelli d’analisi. Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, n.1, 2018, pp. 81-106.
- Mutsvairo Bruce and Ragnedda, Massimo (2017), Emerging Political Narratives on Malawian Digital Spaces, Communicatio, Routledge.
- Maria Laura Ruiu and Massimo Ragnedda (2017), The quadruple helix model of libraries_the role of Public Libraries in Newcastle upon Tyne, Public Library Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2017.1318642
- Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu (2017), UK General Election 2015: dealing with austerity, SACS-o Working Papers, Newcastle University.
- Maria Laura Ruiu and Massimo Ragnedda (2017). Empowering Local Communities Through Collective Grassroots Actions: the Case of “No al Progetto Eleonora” in the Arborea District (OR, Sardinia). The Communication Review. Issue Vol 20, No. 1.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu (2016) Exclusão digital: como é estar do lado errado da divisão digital (Digital exclusion: be on the wrong side of the digital divide), Revista Online de Comunicação, Linguagem e Mídias, 10(20): 90-113.
- Maria Laura Ruiu and Massimo Ragnedda (2016), Between digital inclusion and social equality: The role of public libraries in Newcastle upon Tyne, Library and Information Research Volume 40 Number 123, pp: 69-87.
- Massimo Ragnedda, Kristen Budd (2015), Invisible violence: Media (re)production of Gender Inequality in Italy, Communication Papers CP, Vol.4 – Nº7, pp. 11-21. ISSN 2014-6752.
- Guest-editor (with Glenn Muschert) of a Special Section (2015) on “Max Weber and Digital Divide Studies”, for the International Journal of Communication, August 2015.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2015) Electronic surveillance on Social Networking Sites. A critical case study of the usage of SNSs by students in Sassari, Studies in Communication Sciences.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2014), Censorship and media ownership in Italy in the Era of Berlusconi, GMJ: Mediterranean Edition 9(1) Spring 2014.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2013), Social Networks and the Protection of Personal Information. When Privacy Is Not Perceived As a Right, Monograph, Privacy and new Technologies, International Federation for Information Processing, 2013.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2013), Dataveillance and e-surveillance. A critical case study of the usage of Social Networking Sites by students in Sassari, in Webster et all (eds), The State of Surveillance, Cost Action.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2012), Medios de comunicación masiva y la mujer en Italia de la violencia simbólica a la violencia, Trayectorias, AÑO 14, NÚM. 35 Julio-Diciembre 2012, pp. 27-43.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2012), Las redes sociales y la tutela de la privacidad. Cuando la privacidad no se contempla como un derecho, in Novática, Monografía, “Privacidad y nuevas tecnologìas”, Revista decana de la prensa informática española, Núm. 217 (mayo-junio 2012).
- Danica Radovanovic, Massimo Ragnedda, (2012) Small Talk in the Digital Age: Making Sense of Phatic Posts, in Matthew Rowe; Milan Stankovic; Aba-Sah Dadzie (eds). Making Sense of Microposts, pp. 10-13, (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-838/paper_18.pdf).
- Ragnedda, Massimo, (2011) Massimo Ragnedda, Internet y Control Social. Entre Rizoma y Gran Hermano. Perspectivas de la comunicación. Vol. 4, n. 1, 2011: pp. 42-52.
- Massimo Ragnedda, Social control and surveillance in the society of consumers, in «International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (IJSA)», Vol.3, n.2, 2011.
- Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, La violencia simbólica de la música en la publicidad destinada a la infancia in «Pensar la Publicidad, Revista Internacional de Investigaciones Publicitarias», Publicaciones Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Universidad de Valladolid, Madrid, 2010, Vol. 4, numero 1, pp. 167-187.
- Massimo Ragnedda, Mushert G.W., The Political use of fear and news reporting in Italy: The case of Berlusconi’s media control, in «Journal of Communication Research», Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-12.
- “The homo mediaticusand the paralysis of critical thought”, in Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Institute for Human Services & Public Policy, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, (LA) USA, Volume 32, 2009, 1&2.
- El consumismo inducido: reflexiones sobre el consumo postmoderno, in «Pensar la Publicidad, Revista Internacional de Investigaciones Publicitarias», Publicaciones Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Universidad de Valladolid, Madrid, vol. 2, num. 1, 2008, pp. 123-140.
- La propaganda tra passato e presente: evoluzione e ipotesi di comparazionein «Annali della Facoltà di Lingue e letterature straniere dell’Università degli studi di Sassari», 2003(2005), pp. 259-284.
Peer-review Chapters
- Ragnedda, M., Muschert G. and Ruiu, ML., (2022) Digital stratification: Class, status group, and party in the age of the Internet, In Housley, W., Edwards, A., Beneito-Montagut, R., and Fitzgerald, R., Sage Handbook of Digital Society, Sage.
- Ruiu, ML., and Ragnedda, M. (2022). Between Moral and Climate Crisis Interpreting Panic Climate Change Through the Lens of Moral, In Punziano, G., and Delli Paola, A. (eds) Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 727-745.
- Ragnedda, M., and Ruiu, ML., (2021). COVID-19 in the UK: The Exacerbation of inequality and a digitally-based response, Milan S (ed) COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, pp. 106-110.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South, In Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova (eds) Digital Inequalities in the Global South, Palgrave, 2020.
- Hanna Kreitem, Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (2020). Digital Inequalities in European Post-Soviet States. In Sergey Davydov (ed), Internet in Russia. Russia in Internet, Springer.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2019), Reconceptualising the Digital divide. In Mutsvairo Bruce and Ragnedda, Massimo (eds), Mapping Key Perspectives on Digital Divide in Africa. Amsterdam University Press (AUP), 2019.
- Mutsvairo Bruce and Ragnedda, Massimo (2019) Comprehending the digital disparities in Africa. In Mutsvairo Bruce and Ragnedda, Massimo (eds), Mapping Key Perspectives on Digital Divide in Africa. Amsterdam University Press (AUP), 2019.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2018), Reducing and Preventing Digital Discrimination: Digital Inclusion Strategies in Europe. In Ragnedda, Massimo and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds), Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis, Lexington Books
- Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo (2018) Digital Inclusion: Empowering People Through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In Ragnedda, Massimo and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds), Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis, Lexington Books.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2018), Tackling Digital Exclusion: Counter Social Inequalities Through Digital Inclusion. Agenda for Social Justice: Global solution, University of Bristol: Polity Press, pp.151-158.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu (2017), Social capital and the three levels of digital divide in Ragnedda, Massimo, Muschert Glenn (eds), Theorizing Digital Divide, London: Routledge, 2018.
- Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (2016), Theorizing Digital Divides and Digital Inequalities, in Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (editors) Social Inequalities, Media and Communication: A Global Perspective, Lexington Books.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo (2016), Demystifying Digital Divide and Digital Leisure. Chapter in David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson, Sandro Carnicelli (eds) Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, pp. 107-119.
- Massimo Ragnedda (2014), Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: Between Censorship, Total Control, Jazz and Futurism, in Feldman, M., Mead, H., Tonning, E. (eds) Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, Bloomsbury, London., pp. 195-211.
- Muschert G.W. and Massimo Ragnedda (2011) Media and Control of Violence: The Framing of School Shootings, in Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Andrea Kirschner, and Stefan Malthaner (eds.) Control of Violence, New York: Springer Publishing, 2011, pp. 345-361.
- Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert, “The Regime of Propaganda in a NeoliberalState: Berlusconi and the Italian Media,” in G. Sussman (eds) The Propaganda Society: Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context, Peter Lang Publishers, 2011.
- Dall’iperrealtà alla costruzione della realtà: lo scenario offerto dai new media, in Luigi Spedicato (a cura di) La vita on line. Strategie di costruzione del sé in rete, Besa edizioni, Lecce, 2008, pp. 248-265.
- Sorveglianza, reti e vita quotidiana, in Calenda D., Fonio C. (a cura di), Sorveglianza e società, Bonanni editore, Firenze, 2010.