Dr. Giuliana Sorce

Giuliana Sorce researches in the areas of digital cultures, new media and society, media activism and digital participation, critical/cultural media theory, feminist media studies, and qualitative methodologies.

Giuliana Sorce studied American Studies (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) and Professional Communication Studies (Purdue University) in Germany and the US. As the recipient of a full doctoral scholarship, Giuliana Sorce earned her PhD in Mass Communication & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. Her grant-supported dissertation project “Watching out for media: An institutional ethnographic perspective on the feminist-democratic media activism of Media Monitoring Africa” is based on fieldwork in Johannesburg, South Africa. Several of her dissertation chapters have appeared in international journals. 

Giuliana Sorce publishes in leading academic journals within media and communication studies (e.g., Journal of Communication, The Communication Review, Feminist Media Studies, International Journal of Communication, Global Media Journal); her research has been awarded with various Top Paper Awards at international conferences. Since 2019, Giuliana Sorce serves as web-coordinator for the “media, publics & gender” section of the German Communication Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft).

Next to offering regular courses in media methods, Giuliana Sorce teaches coursework in media theory and analysis. In 2014, her pedagogical innovations and service learning projects earned her a teaching award. She has taught at leading international institutions (Manchester University, Södertörn University, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and has experience in online teaching and curricular development.

Since 2018, Giuliana Sorce is a postdoctoral scholar within the unit “Transformations of Media Cultures” (Prof. Dr. Tanja Thomas). She is associated member of the Hans-Böckler-Doctoral Program “right-wing politics and exclusionary solidarities.”  In 2020, she was selected as a fellow in the Athene program for outstanding emerging scholars, supporting her habilitation endeavors.

For a detailed CV, see here.

• Sorce, Giuliana. (2021). Whiteness und Geschlecht. In J. Dorer et. al., Handbuch Medien und Geschlecht: Perspektiven und Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer/VS.
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2020). Review of Aimée Vega Montiel and Sarah Macharia, Setting the gender agenda for communication policy: New proposals from the Global Alliance on Media and Gender, in Journal of Communication (online first). Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqz047 
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2020). Journalist-activist boundary work in populist times: The #NazisRaus debate in German media. Journalism Practice (online first). Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2020.1755885 
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2019). Building critical feminist media literacy: Gender, sexuality, and labor in the age of internet pornography, in A. Atay & D. Fassett (eds.), Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy. Lanham: Lexington Books.
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2019). Media activism, in D. Merskin (ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2019). Luxembourg, in D. Merskin (ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2019). Institutional ethnography for communication and media research. The Communication Review, 22(4), 296-308. Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714421.2019.1659703 
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2019). Weaving into the mediascape: An institutional ethnography of NGO media activism in South Africa. Global Media Journal German Edition, 9(1), 1-28. Available here: https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38715
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2018). Sounding the alarm for right-wing #MeToo: “120 Dezibel” in Germany. Feminist Media Studies, 18(6). Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2018.1532146
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2018). Review of Victor Pickard and Guobing Yang, Media activism in the digital age, in Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36(4), 390-392.  Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2018.1465194
• Doane, Bethany T., McCormick, Kaitlyn, & Sorce, Giuliana. (2016). Changing methods for feminist public scholarship: Lessons from Sarah Koenig’s podcast Serial. Feminist Media Studies, 17(1), 119-121. Available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2017.1261465
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2016). Review of Kaarle Nordenstreng and Daya K. Thussu, Mapping BRICS Media, in Global Media Journal German Edition, 6(2), n. p. Available here: http://www.globalmediajournal.de/2016/12/13/review-mapping-brics-media/
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2016). Review of Elana Levine, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and ladyporn: Feminized popular culture in the early twenty-first century, in Feminist Media Studies, 16(3), 543-544. Available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2016.1161341
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2016). Review of Kaitlynn Mendes, SlutWalk: Feminism, activism, and media, in International Journal of Communication, 10, 60-62. Available here: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4848/1522
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2015). Hitler and humor: Coming to terms with the past through parody. Global Media Journal German Edition, 5(2), n. p. Available here: https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00032872/GMJ10_Sorce_final.pdf.
• Sorce, Giuliana. (2015). Review of Karma R. Chávez, Queer migration politics: Activist rhetoric and coalitional possibilities, in Women’s Studies in Communication, 38(3), 353-356. Available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07491409.2015.1064722

• since 2021: Co-Chair, International and Intercultural Communication Division, German Communication Association (DGPuK)
• 2019-2021: Webcoordinator, Media, Public Spheres and Gender Division, German Communication Association (DGPuK)
• 2014-2016: Secretary Public Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
• Reviewer for: Information, Communication & Society; Media, Culture & Society; Journalismus & Mass Communication Quarterly;  Studies in Communication Sciences; kommunikation.medien; Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology