Mauro Wolf

Mauro Wolf ( October 26, 1947 - July 14, 1996) was an Italian sociologist, professor and essayist. He has developed important works in the field of sociology of communication and the media. His books are now considered classical texts in theoretical research on mass communication.

Life and career Born in the province of Trento, Italy, Mauro Wolf graduated from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Florence in 1970. In 1974 he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Education in Urbino. He returned to Florence in 1975, where he taught radio and television language techniques in the graduate program in Arts, Music and Performing Arts at the Faculty of Humanities. Soon after, he taught sociology of communication at the Communication Sciences Institute in Bologna, where he became a colleague and friend of Umberto Eco. the sociologist remained in the city of Bologna until his death on July 14, 1996 at the age of 49. Gli effetti sociali dei media (1992)