Emma Bonutti D'Agostini

Emma Bonutti D’Agostini is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris and at Sciences Po Paris. She works under the joint supervision of Etienne Ollion (CREST, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and Sylvain Parasie (médialab, Sciences Po Paris). Before, she completed a Research Master in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, and a Bachelor Degree in Political Sciences at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). 

In her doctoral dissertation, she studies how French and Italian legacy media grant visibility and legitimacy to political groups by giving them a voice, borrowing tools from computational social science (CSS) and natural language processing (NLP), which she combines with qualitative sociological methodologies.