Giovanni Navarria

Dr Giovanni Navarria is a Teacher in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He convenes two Undergraduate courses: Digital Technologies and Global Politics and Cybersecurity diplomacy and digital rights in global politics. He is the author of The Networked Citizen - Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age (Palgrave MacMillan, 279 pages, ISBN 9811332924, 9789811332920) and his work addresses the relationship between citizens, power and resistance in digital networked environments, the rise of mediated populism in Italy, USA and China, and issues of political disinformation in public service media as well as social media.

Previously, Dr Navarria was a Research Associate at the Centre for Political Thought at University of Exeter and Fellow of the Sydney Democracy Network at the University of Sydney.

In Sydney, he also worked as Lecturer, teaching Postgraduate and Undergraduate Units of Studies in the field of Politics, Regime Transitions, IR, Public Opinion, Media and Public Relations.

Dr Navarria has a PhD in Politics and Media from the University of Westminster and a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Catania..