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Overview

Mario Diani is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research contributes extensively within the Social Sciences, focusing primarily on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Public Administration, and Urban Studies.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Management and Organizational Studies

Frequent co-authors in Mario Diani's publications include:

  • David Knoke
  • James Hollway
  • Dimitris Christopoulos
  • Lorien Jasny
  • Silvia Sacchetti

Recurring publication venues comprise:

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • International Journal of Comparative Sociology
  • Social Networks
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Recent papers authored by Mario Diani provide insight into their areas of interest and include:

  • The relational preconditions of trust in collective action fields (2023), published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology
  • Networks and Social Movements (2022), featured in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Embedded performers: The relational foundations of record production (2023), appearing in Social Networks

A notable book publication by Mario Diani is Multimodal Political Networks (2021), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Social Movements: An Introduction

    Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

  • The Concept of Social Movement

    Mario Diani

  • Social Movements and Networks

    Mario Diani;Doug McAdam

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENT NETWORKS VIRTUAL AND REAL

    Mario Diani

  • Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action

    Mario Diani;Doug McAdam

  • Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement

    Mario Diani

  • Social Movements: An Introduction (2nd edition)

    Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

  • Linking mobilization frames and political opportunities : Insights from regional populism in Italy

    Mario Diani

  • Organizations, coalitions, and movements

    Mario Diani;Mario Diani;Ivano Bison;Ivano Bison

  • Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme

    Mario Diani

  • The Oxford handbook of social movements

    Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

  • Social Movements and Social Capital: A Network Perspective on Movement Outcomes

    Mario Diani

  • Networks and Participation

    Mario Diani

  • ‘Leaders’ Or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks

    Mario Diani

  • Los Movimientos Sociales

    Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

  • The Integrative Power of Civic Networks

    Delia Baldassarri;Mario Diani

  • Beyond Tocqueville : civil society and the social capital debate in comparative perspective

    Kenneth H. Tucker;Bob Edwards;Michael W. Foley;Mario Diani

  • The Cement of Civil Society

    Mario Diani

  • Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: ‘From Metaphor to Substance ’?

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  • Studying collective action

    Phyllis B. Augspurger;Mario Diani;Ron Eyerman

  • Organisational change in Western European Environmental Groups: A framework for analysis

    Mario Diani;Paolo R. Donati

Frequent Co-Authors

David Knoke
David Knoke University of Minnesota
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley University of Manchester
James M. Jasper
James M. Jasper City University of New York

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