Antonella Elia holds a Ph.D. in English for Special Purposes from the Federico II University of Naples. She has been working in the fields of English and Italian language teaching, and in new media education for the past decade. She has been a lecturer in the “Humanities and Computing” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” since 2002, and is involved in designing and offering online courses in languages and ICT for the Orientale’s CILA, Centre for Language and Audiovisual services.
She has published numerous papers which connect languages, humanities and computing and is the author of Inchiostro Digitale: tecnologie e scienze umane - scrivere, comunicare, insegnare con i nuovi media (Ellissi, 2004), used as a texbook in several Italian universities, Uomini di latta e sogni di metallo: cyborgs & cyberspaces nel mondo digitale anglofono (Ellissi, 2006), Cogitamus ergo sumus. web 2.0 encyclopaedi@s: the case of wikipedia (Aracne 2008). |