Massimo Leone

Massimo Leone is Tenured Full Professor (“Professore Ordinario”) of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, Vice-Director for research at the same University, and part-time Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Shanghai, China.

The project 

Title: FATIDIC: Fake Advanced Technology in Digital and Internet Communication

Keywords: Philosophy of Communication; Digital Philosophy; Semiotics; Digital Anthropology

Selected publications

• LEONE, M., José Enrique FINOL y Cristina VOTO, dirs. 2021. El rostro digital latino-americano. Número especial de Revista DeSignis. Buenos Aires: FELS (Federación Latino-Americana de Semiótica).
• LEONE, M., ed. .2021. I volti del complotto. Turín: FACETS Digital Press; ISBN: 9788890756290; 155 p.
• LEONE, M., ed. 2021. Volti artificiali / Artificial Faces. Número especial de Lexia, 37-38; ISBN: 978-88-255-3853-3; ISSN 1720-5298-20; 645 pp.; available open access at the website https://www.academia.edu/45610149/2021_Lexia_37_38_Volti_artificiali_Artificial_Faces_. Rome: Aracne
• LEONE, M. 2021. “Estéticas faciais nas sociedades digitais contemporâneas”, 13-22. en Maria Teresa Tedesco y Claudio Correia, dirs. 2021. Contribuições da Semiótica ao ensino de português no mundo. Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts; ISBN: 978-65-5683-025-4.
• LEONE, M. 2021. “On Muzzles and Faces: The Semiotic Limits of Visage and Personhood”, 1-24. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, online, 13 febrero 2021; e-ISSN: 1572-8722; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09812-8
• LEONE, M. 2020. “Rostros gigantes: Tamaño versus proporción en la semiótica del poder”, 339-357. En Oscar Steinberg, Oscar Traversa, y Gastón Cingolani, dirs. Actas del XIV Congreso mundial de semiótica: “Trayectorias”; Buenos Aires, septiembre 2019, 8 vols, vol. VIII: “Conferencias plenarias”. Buenos Aires: IASS Publications & Libros de Crítica; ISSN: 2414-6862; DOI: 10.24308/IASS-2019-8-025.
• LEONE, M. 2020. “Breve historia topológica del mundo: Del muro a la red”, 219-230. DeSignis 33, número especial sobre “Intersecciones en el discurso politico / Intersections in the Political Discourse”, dirs Teresa Velázquez García-Talavera and Mariano Dagatti. Rosario (Argentina): Editorial UNR; ISSN 1578-4223; ISSN DIGITAL 2462 – 7259
• LEONE, M. 2021. “The Semiotics of the Anti-COVID-19 Mask”, 1-8. Social Semiotics, online; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1868943
• LEONE, M. 2020. "Digital Cosmetics", 551-580. Chinese Semiotic Studies, 16, 4; doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/css-2020-0030
• LEONE, Massimo. 2020. “La caméra et le miroir : La sociabilité à l’ère de l’individualisme numérique”, 81-101. En Driss Ablali y Erik Bertin, dirs. 2020. Les sociabilités numériques [Collection : Extensions sémiotiques, 5]. Paris: Academia-L’Harmattan; ISBN: 978-2-8061-0542-4.
• LEONE, M., Angela Condello, Paolo Heritier, and Jenny Ponzo, dirs. 2020. The Reasonable Interpreter: Perspectives on Legal and Non-Legal Semiotics, special issue of International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 33, 4. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. [E; SL]
• LEONE, M. 2020. “From Fingers to Faces: Visual Semiotics and Digital Forensics”, 1-21. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 8 de septiembre; ISSN: 0952-8059 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09766-x
• LEONE, M. 2019. On Insignificance: The Loss of Meaning in the Post-Material Age. Londres y Nueva York: Routledge; 226 pp.