prof.mr.drs. A. Pelizza (Annalisa)

Annalisa Pelizza is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Bologna, where she holds the Chair in Sociology of Communication Processes, and Visiting Professor at the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department of the University of Twente. Before joining Bologna, she was Associate Professor at the STePS department.

Her research focuses on STS-informed methodologies to study fleeting online sociability, and on governance by data infrastructures shaping modern institutions. Regarding the latter, her “vectorial” conceptualization of socio-technical change tackles information systems as both methodological entry points and performative actors. With her work, Annalisa brings tools proper to STS analyses to investigate and expand information systems studies and political sociology. This combination is made possible by her former experience working with governmental agencies and engineering companies, developing large-scale IT infrastructures.

Annalisa Pelizza was the recipient of several European Commission scientific grants and currently leads the “Processing Citizenship” (http://processingcitizenship.eu) research group, funded by the European Research Council. The team investigates transnational data infrastructures for migration management as activities of European governance transformation. She held visiting professorships at the Center for Technology in Society at the Munich Technical University (2016) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris (2017).

Business & Economics

# Government Information
# Information Systems
# Migrants
# Ontology

Social Sciences

# Information System
# Internet Community
# Land Registries
# Technology Studies

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Knowledge, Transformation & Society (KiTeS)

Annalisa Pelizza's research focuses on STS-informed methodologies to study fleeting online sociability, and on how the governance by data infrastructures reshapes modern institutions. Her “vectorial” conceptualization of socio-technical change tackles information systems as both methodological entry points and actors performing new socio-political orders. As methodological resources, studying information systems allows uncovering broader but unnoticed transformations buried in technical minutiae. As actors, information systems invisibly shape long-term changes in the modern order of authority. Her work adopts tools proper to STS analyses to investigate data infrastructures and political sociology.

Annalisa Pelizza held visiting professorships at the Center for Technology in Society at the Munich Technical University (2016), the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris (2017), the University of Twente (2019-2022).

Pelizza, A. , & Van Rossem, W. R. (2023). Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas. Science Technology and Human Values. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231195955

Rossem, W. V. , & Pelizza, A. (2022). The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management. Big Data & Society, 9(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221104087

Van Rossem, W. , & Pelizza, A. (2021). Ontology Explorer: A method to analyse data models for identifying and registering border crossers. Abstract from New Materialist Informatics 2021, Kassel, Hesse, Germany.

Pelizza, A. , & Van Rossem, W. (2021). Sensing European alterity: An analogy between sensors and Hotspots in transnational security network. In N. Klimburg-Witjes, N. Poechhacker, & G. C. Bowker (Eds.), Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures (pp. 262-286). Mattering Press. https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729111

Pelizza, A. (2021). Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border. Social studies of science, 51(4), 487-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720983932

Pelizza, A. (2021). Towards a sociomaterial approach to inter-organizational boundaries: How information systems elicit relevant knowledge in government outsourcing. Journal of information technology, 36(2), 94-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220934490

Pelizza, A. (2021). Digital sociology: The reinvention of social research. Information, communication and society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1781917

Pelizza, A. (2020). “No disease for the others”: How COVID-19 data can enact new and old alterities. Big Data & Society, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720942542

Pelizza, A. (2020). Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities. Science, technology & human values, 45(2), 262-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919827927

Dijstelbloem, H. , & Pelizza, A. (2019). The State is the Secret: For a relational approach to the study of border and mobility control in Europe. In M. de Goede, E. Bosma, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), Secrecy and Methodology in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork (1 ed., pp. 48-62). Routledge.

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Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society

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194128030 - Master Thesis PA

194128030 - Master Thesis PA

Annalisa Pelizza was the recipient of several European Commission scientific grants and currently leads the “Processing Citizenship” research group (http://processingcitizenship.eu), funded by the European Research Council. The team investigates transnational data infrastructures for migration management as activities of European governance transformation.