Professor Dr. Elena Raviola

Biography

Elena Raviola is a Professor at the University of Gothenburg, where she leads the Business Design Lab. Her research primarily focuses on understanding the role of technology and material artifacts in organizing and managing professional work, particularly within cultural and creative fields. She explores how professional norms, rules, and structures change over time and how technology influences professional practices. Raviola has employed institutional and actor-network theories in her work, particularly investigating news production and the establishment of new digital journalism organizations through ethnographic studies across Italy, France, and Sweden. She is also interested in entrepreneurial journalism and the impact of digital technologies on journalism amidst ongoing crises within news organizations. Raviola teaches Design in organizational contexts, Organization Theory, Ethnography, and Qualitative Methods.

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