Marica Spalletta

Marica Spalletta is an associate professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Link Campus University of Rome, Department of Human Sciences. Her research focuses on the mediatization of cultural products and agenda-setting processes, forms of media representation and audience perspectives, and the credibility issue. Over the last twenty years she has directed or investigated several national and international research projects in the field of media sociology, among which the European project GEMINI-Gender Equality Through Media Investigation and New training Insights (CERV-2022-GE). Among her publications: “Streaming Youth in the Platform Culture. A Four-Country Study on Serial Dramas’ Consumption, Algorithmic Mediation and Transnational Engagement” (2025); “On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori” (2025); “Unsuitable Jobs for Women. Women’s Behind-the-Scenes Employment and Female On-Screen Representation in Italian TV Crime Drama” (2023); “Audiences of popular European television crime drama: A nine-country study on consumption patterns, attitudes, and drivers of transcultural connection” (2023).