Dr Corinna di Gennaro (DPhil, Oxon)

Corinna di Gennaro is a sociologist working on civic and political engagement and new media. She is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford.

Prior to joining the Berkman, Corinna was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2006-2007) at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where she worked on the social implications of Internet adoption and use for civic and political engagement.In 2004-2006 Corinna was Survey Research Officer at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. At the OII, Corinna worked on the design and analysis of the 2005 Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) and the World Internet Project (WIP), exploring the social implications of Internet adoption and use in everyday life, focusing in particular on online political engagement and online sociability.

Education

Corinna holds a D.Phil in Sociology (2004) from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College, with a dissertation entitled: ‘Social Capital and Political Participation in Britain‘. During her doctoral studies Corinna was awarded with an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Research Studentship and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Studentship for the study of the ‘Theory and Politics of Civil Society’.

Corinna also holds an M.Phil in Sociology (2000) from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc in Sociology (1995-1998) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at the University of London.

Research Interests:

Internet and society, social capital, political participation, civic engagement, civil society, new media, online sociability, survey research methods, online surveys.

Current Projects:

At the Berkman, Corinna is working on the Digital Natives project and the Internet and Democracy project.

Mailing address:

Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street, Second Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

Telephone: +1.617.495.7547
Fax: +1.617.495.7641
Email: cdigennaro AT cyber.law.harvard.edu