Biography
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification, part of the Governance and Pluralism team at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. I work on the project “Understanding the different meanings of climate change among the public” (CLIMEANING), a comparative, mixed-methods project aiming at understanding the different meanings attributed to climate change in the Netherlands and Italy.
I consider my research interests broad and interdisciplinary, ranging from political sociology to social psychology and communications. In the past, I’ve worked on several topics, such as political stereotypes, politicians’ communication online, privacy protection behavior online, and political talk show pundits in Italy.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Researcher | Governance and Pluralism
- scaduto@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Gaetano Scaduto (2025) - Politicultural Linking: Inferences Between Political and Apolitical Traits - Public Opinion Quarterly - doi: 10.1093/poq/nfaf047
- Silvia Decadri, Moreno Mancosu, Fedra Negri & Gaetano Scaduto (2025) - Aligning Emotions: A Comparative Analysis of Text and Imagery by European Party Leaders on Instagram - International Journal of Press/Politics - doi: 10.1177/19401612251339107 - [link]
- Moreno Mancosu & Gaetano Scaduto (2025) - Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Mass Communication and Society, 28 (4), 632-657 - doi: 10.1080/15205436.2024.2351980 - [link]
- Chiara Respi, Marco Gui, Gaetano Scaduto, Miriam Serini, Dario Pizzul, Tiziano Gerosa & Christoph Lutz (2025) - Lower Cynicism, Not Higher Literacy, Promotes Protective Behavior: Exploring the “privacy exception” in the Digital Inequality Framework - Social Science Computer Review - doi: 10.1177/08944393251341201 - [link]
- Gaetano Scaduto & Fedra Negri (2024) - Food for (political) thought: political inferences from apolitical cues and their social consequences in Italy - South European Society and Politics, 29 (1), 79-108 - doi: 10.1080/13608746.2024.2411539 - [link]
- Gaetano Scaduto & Fedra Negri (2024) - The Pundit Paradox: Exploring the Mismatch between Supply and Demand in Italian Political Talk Show Guests - Comunicazione Politica, (3), 309-334 - doi: 10.3270/115244 - [link]
- Arturo Bertero & Gaetano Scaduto (2023) - A midsummer night’s dream: political communication during the Italian 2022 electoral campaign - Quaderni dell'Osservatorio Elettorale, 86 (1), 13-28 - doi: 10.36253/qoe-14224 - [link]
