GUI MARCO

Marco Gui is associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research. His research interests concern:

- social and individual differences in the use of the Internet;

- the quality of digital life;

- the digitization of schools and education.

In particular, he has researched on "digital inequality" and "digital skills", especially among young people. Marco Gui has published more than forty scientific articles in important Italian and international journals (among others Social Science Computer Review, New Media&Society, Economics of Education Review, First Monday, Journal of Media Economics, Policy&Internet). He is a regular reviewer for many international journals in the field of digital media studies.

He has coordinated several researches on the use of digital media among secondary school students, funded by the Ministry of Economic Development, Prime Minister's Office, Lombardy Region, Valle D'Aosta Region and IPRASE of Trentino. In collaboration with these institutions, he has contributed to developing the first statistically rigorous tests of digital competence in Italy (see Gui and Argentin, 2011; Pagani et al., 2013).

He is the coordinator of the "Benessere Digitale (Digital Well-being)" Research Centre (www.benesseredigitale.eu), within which several projects related to the quality of life in the networked society are active. One of these, winner of the Bicocca University call "Innovation Project Grant", is co-funded by Fastweb S.p.A. and provides for research and training of secondary school teachers on the development of awareness in the use of digital media.

Marco Gui has participated as an expert of emerging digital skills to workshops organized by OECD and JRC (European Commission). He is a member of the ICA (International Communication Association), ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) and AIS (Italian Association of Sociology).

His publications are available here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Oi1GfncAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao