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Cristina Archetti
Cristina Archetti is professor in political communication and journalism at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on the role of communication, both mediated by technologies and face-to-face, in politics and society. She is author of three books: Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context (Palgrave, 2010); Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach (Palgrave, 2012); Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity: A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy (Palgrave, 2014). She won, among other international prizes, the 2008 Denis McQuail Award for Innovating Communication Theory. Cristina’s current research focuses on how media and communication contribute to the construction of deviance and taboo. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms that lead to the silencing and marginalization of the involuntary childless. Beyond researching childlessness, she has both organized events to raise awareness about this topic and contributed to its discussion across Norway, Sweden and online (www.WorldChildessWeek.net). She is in the process of publishing the book Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing Silence, an analysis of the social and political repercussion of involuntary childlessness and its existential ramifications all aspects of one’s life.