Doctoral Thesis Defence: Monica Porzionato (Strategic Communication)

Feeling the changing climate

An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a touristic city

An abstract and information about the defence will be posted as soon as it has been made available.

Monica Porzionato is a doctoral student in Strategic Communication at the Department of Communication, Lund University. She holds a BA in Communication from the University of Padova, an MA in Semiotics from the University of Bologna and an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Utrecht University. Her PhD thesis explores the possibility of an affective approach to strategic climate communication in the touristic setting of Venice, wherein it explores how the strategic communication of floods implies the sustainment of affective atmospheres, thus of seemingly ordinary ways in which Venice ought to look and feel like in the midst of climate change.