Nello Barile

Adjunct Professor, Communication and Media Studies

Ph.D. University of Rome "La Sapienza"

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The research interests of Nello Barile include sociology of media and communication, culture, fashion, and consumption. He has published numerous books, articles and short essays in Italy as well as in France, Germany, Brazil and USA. At the moment he is investigating the relationships between culture, power and emerging media.

He teaches media studies and sociology of cultural processes at IULM University of Milan, where he also coordinated a Master's program in Creativity Management for 6 years.

2019-2020 Courses:

COM 370	The Industrialization of Creativity from Mass Media to Platform Economy	FALL 2019
The recent enthusiasm around the term creativity and its offshoots, such as creative class and creative labor, highlights how creativity is being industrialized, making it an integral part of the market-oriented framework. Creativity is consequently often connected with broader aspirations of socio-economic growth. This course surveys key issues of the media market from cultural/communication industries to platform economy as it relates to creativity in the current media landscape. Students will learn how the prevalence of social media, mobile devices, search and aggregators markets, and active prosumerism, call for new business models of media companies and cultural industries. The course includes the discussion of such industries as fashion, design, and music, among others, focusing on innovation, recommendation systems and finally the relation between creativity and Artificial Intelligence.

Publications:

Barile, N. (2015). Branding the self in the age of emotional capitalism: The exploitation of prosumers, from the rhetoric of “double bind” to the hegemony of confession. LOGOS, 25.

Barile, N., & Sugiyama, S. (2015). The automation of taste: A theoretical exploration of mobile ICTs and social robots in the context of music consumption. International Journal of Social Robotics, 7(3), 407-416. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-015-0283-1

Barile, N. (2014) Brand Renzi. Anatomia del politico come marca, Milano: Egea.

Barile N. (2013) From the posthuman consumer to the ontobranding dimension: Geolocalization, augmented reality and emotional ontology as a radical redefinition of what is real. intervalla: platform for intellectual exchange, 1, 101-115

Barile N (2012). 1968- Jean Baudrillard. Il sistema degli oggetti. In: Mediologia. Una disciplina attraverso i suoi classici. p. 1-264, Napoli: Liguori.

Barile N (2012). A knot to untie: Social power, fetishism, communication in the social history of the tie. In C. Giorcelli and P. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II (pp. 193- 211), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Abruzzese, A., Barile, N, Fortunati, L., Gebhardt, J, & Vincent, J. (Editors) (2012). The New Television Ecosystem. Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang.

Barile N (2011). Sistema moda: oggetti, strategie e simboli: dall'iperlusso alla società low cost. Milano: Egea.

Barile N (2010). Il posto del consumo: note sul rapporto tra marche e territorio in Italia e all'estero. In: Consumi e trasformazioni urbane tra anni Sessanta e Ottanta. pp. 29-61, Bologna: Bup.

Barile N (2010). Network come neotot: la socialità in rete e gli avamposti di un nuovo fascismo emozionale. AUT AUT, vol. 347, p. 77-91.

Barile N (2009). Brand new world: il consumo delle marche come forma di rappresentazione del mondo. vol. 1, p. 1-191, Milano: Lupetti.