Adjunct Fellows
Luigi Di Martino
Luigi's research explores the opportunities and challenges of digital communication technologies in Public Communication.
He is interested in the use of social media in public and political communication and everyday life, with a particular focus on the ethical implications of organisational listening and monitoring activities through digital technologies and AI. He is currently working on the project "New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal", where he is studying young people's climate change activism on social media. Recent works also explore planned and unplanned events and their online representation.
Luigi is also actively involved in community services for the Italian community in New South Wales. He currently serves as President of Com.It.Es. (Committee For Italians Abroad).
Martyna Gliniecka
Martyna holds a first PhD degree in Linguistics, specialising in cross-cultural communication, and MA and BA in Journalism and Social Communication from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
She is an Adjunct Fellow of the Young and Resilient Research Centre, aiming to better young people’s lives and their resilience in the domains of technology and health. She specialises in youth sociology, researching online communities and health discussions among teenagers with digital ethnography.
She has been a visiting scholar at several prestigious institutions worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania in the US, Waseda University in Japan, and the Higher School of Economics in Russia. She was awarded a Fulbright Junior Research Award in 2017/2018.