Erik Knudsen is a filmmaker and Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK, where he was formerly the Faculty Director of Research for the Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries. Prior to joining UCLan, Erik was a Professor of Visual and Digital Culture at Bournemouth University’s Media School. He has also been Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, where he was for a period of time Head of the School of Media, Music and Performance. During his many years at the University of Salford, Erik also acted as the University of Salford’s Director of Graduate Studies. Earlier roles at the University of Salford include programme leading the MA in Fiction Film Production, the MA in Television Documentary Production and the MA in Wildlife Documentary Production. Prior to his University of Salford tenure, he was Head of Production at the Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University. Alongside his current role, Erik is also Visiting Professor, and the former Head of the Editing Department, at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. He writes extensively about creative film practice and his latest book, Finding The Personal Voice In Filmmaking, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is principal investigator on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council grants: StoryLab International Film Development Research Network (2016 - 2018) and StoryLab Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries (2019 - 2020). StoryLab Research Network has since grown to include working with film festivals, such as the Peloponnesus Documentary Film Festival, 2022, and the ongoing Wind Wolves Preserve Archaeology project in California, USA.

As a multiple prize winning filmmaker, his films include Goodwin Island (99 minutes, fiction, 2024), True Calling (88 minutes, fiction, 2021), Cleft Lip (84 minutes, fiction, 2018), The Raven On The Jetty (88 minutes, fiction, 2015), The Silent Accomplice (84 minutes, fiction, 2011), Vainilla Chip (17 minutes, Documentary, 2009), Veil (for Horse & Bamboo Theatre Company’s touring show, 2008), Heart of Gold (40 minutes, documentary, 2006), Sea of Madness (86 minutes, fiction, 2006), Brannigan’s March (99 minutes, fiction, 2004), Bed of Flowers (50 minutes, documentary, 2001), Signs of Life (70 minutes, fiction, 1999), Reunion (50 minutes, documentary, 1995), One Day Tafo (70 minutes, documentary, 1991).

Erik is also creatively engaged with photography, exemplified through projects such as his photographic essay, Cuba in Waiting, which was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Manchester (2013) and Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (2014) and is available as a book. His personal project entitled Doubt is a photographic and poetic book, combined with a film. This work had its opening exhibition in Manchester, UK, during January 2018 and was also exhibited at Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK, from October 2018 to January 2019.

Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and since 2017 a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the author or editor of seventeen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and MediaSpace (Routledge 2004, co-edited with Anna McCarthy). His latest books include The Space of the World (Polity, October/December 2024), Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (Penguin/W. H. Allen 2024, with Ulises Mejias), Media: Why It Matters (Polity: 2019) and Media, Voice, Space and Power: Essays of Refraction (Routledge 2021). Nick is also the co-founder of the Tierra Común network of scholars and activists: https://www.tierracomun.net/.

National Scientific Accreditation
Eligibility as Associate Professor for the competition class 11-C4, obtained during the first round of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (December 2012).
Eligibility as Full Professor for competition class 1-C4, obtained during the 2016 round of the National Scientific Qualification (April 2018).

Director of the scientific series ‘Lingua. Linguaggio, Linguaggi’ at the publisher Aracne since 2012 (http://www.aracneeditri ce.it/aracneweb/index.php/collana.html?col=lll).
Member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure’ in Geneva (http://www.cerclefdsaussure.org/index.php/Ie-cercle/comite-du-cercle) since 2013.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Mondi’ of Catania (http://www.mondi.academy/index.php/Mondi) since 2017.
Has acted as referee for several journals, among which: RIFL (ISSN: 2036-6728); OcuIa (ISSN: 1724-7810); FilosofiEsemiotiche (ISSN: 2531-9434); Versus (ISSN 0393- 8255); Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure (ISSN: 0068-516X); Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica (ISSN: 0035-6247); Language and Communication (ISSN: 0271-5309); Sign Systems Studies (ISSN: 1406-4243); Mondi (ISSN: 2533- 1450); E/C (ISSN: 1970-7452); European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosphy (ISSN 2036-4091).

He has been a member of the College of the International Doctorate of Humanistic Studies at the University of Calabria since the XXVII cycle to date.

Publications (small selection)

BOOKS

- Piccolo corso di semiotica, Acireale/Roma, Bonanno, 2003 (II ed. 2004). [ISBN: 9788877961365]
- La semiotica una e bina. Problemi di filosofia del segno da Ch. S. Peirce a F. de Saussure e L. J. Prieto,
Rende, CELUC, 2004. [ISBN: 9788874580156]
- Lingua e mente sociale. Per una teoria delle istituzioni linguistiche a partire da Mead e Saussure,
Acireale/Roma, Bonanno, 2006 ). [ISBN: 978887796276]
- Peirce, Roma, Carocci, coll. «Pensatori», n° 33, 2013. [ISBN: 9788843069392]
- Sentimento della lingua. Per un'antropologia linguistica saussuriana, Alessandria, Dell'Orso, 2017. [ISBN:
978-88-6274-795-0]
- Troppo lontani troppo vicini. Elementi di prossemica virtuale. Macerata, Quodlibet, 2018. [ISBN: 978-88-
2290-213-9]

ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

(2001). Le lieu théorique de la sémiologie de L. J. Prieto. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 54, p. 385-403, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2005). Les abductions de Saussure. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 57, p. 115-128, ISSN: 0068- 516X
(2008). L’identité symbolique. Prieto et le sujet de la sémiose. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE*, vol. 60, p. 73-84, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2009). Linguaggio e antropogenesi in G. H. Mead. PARADIGMI, p. 145-156, ISSN: 1120-3404
(2009). La morphologie dans la tête: ‘Parallélie’ dans De l'essence double du langage. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 61, p. 101-112, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2012). Luís J. Prieto: uno strutturalista “analitico”? VS. QUADERNI DI STUDI SEMIOTICI, vol. 115, p. 25-39, ISSN: 0393-8255
(2013). ‘Sentiment’ entre mot et terme. Quelques notes sur la langue et le travail de Ferdinand de Saussure. CAHIERS FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, vol. 66, p. 49-65, ISSN: 0068-516X
(2015). L. J. Prieto ou de la solitude du penseur. HISTOIRE ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE LANGAGE, vol. 37, p. 93-111, ISSN: 0750-8069, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/hel/2015370206
(2016). Graphes, Diagrammes, Langue et pensée chez Ch. S. Peirce. HISTOIRE ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE LANGAGE, vol. 9 Dossiers d'HEL, p. 98-112, ISSN: 1638-1580
(2017). Saussure and the Will. SEMIOTICA, vol. 217, p. 229-242, ISSN: 1613-3692, doi: 10.1515/sem-2016-0039

LIST of 150 publication available at my webpage: https://www.unical.it/storage/teachers/emanuele.fadda/

ORCID 0000-0001-6761-1007

https://unical.academia.edu/EmanueleFadda

Giusy Gallo is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Calabria. She teaches Digital Rhetorics and Digital Journalism in the degree course in Communication and DAMS and Language, Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Data Journalism in the master's degree course in Communication and Information Technology. She is the delegate for Equal Opportunities in the Department of Humanities. She is managing editor of the Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. She participates in the editorial board of L'Inconscio. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia e Psicoanalisi and of the journal Comunicazioni sociali. He is on the scientific committee of the journal Margins - Marges -Margins.

Her research activity is in the area of the Philosophy of Digital Communication with interests in new technologies and Artificial Intelligence. In recent years, she has published articles on narrative in television seriality, contemporary political communication and philosophical issues prompted by robotics and algorithms. She is currently working on a research project on the relationship between creativity and language under the test of smart objects, automatic language processing and large language models.