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Maria Laura Ruiu

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American University of Sharjah

Information Society and Technology TrendsICT Impact and PoliciesEthics and Social Impacts of AIClimate Change Communication and PerceptionEnvironmental Education and Sustainability

Maria Laura Ruiu works in Information Society and Technology Trends, ICT Impact and Policies, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Environmental Education and Sustainability. Recorded institutional associations include American University of Sharjah, University of Sharjah.

105Publications
1,393Citations
18H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. Measuring Digital Capital: An empirical investigation

    2019 · 224 citations

  2. The self-reinforcing effect of digital and social exclusion: The inequality loop

    2022 · 148 citations

  3. Digital inequalities in time of pandemic: COVID-19 exposure risk profiles and new forms of vulnerability

    2020 · 127 citations

  4. Mismanagement of Covid-19: lessons learned from Italy

    2020 · 106 citations

  5. Differences between Cohousing and Gated Communities. A Literature Review

    2014 · 97 citations

  6. The Social Capital of Cohousing Communities

    2015 · 75 citations

  7. The Complex Relationship Between Education and Happiness: The Case of Highly Educated Individuals in Italy

    2018 · 61 citations

  8. How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital

    2022 · 49 citations

  9. Developing adaptive responses to contextual changes for sustainable agricultural management: The role of social capital in the Arborea district (Sardinia, Italy)

    2016 · 41 citations

  10. Similarities and differences in managing the Covid-19 crisis and climate change risk

    2020 · 41 citations

  11. The effects of cohousing on the social housing system: the case of the Threshold Centre

    2015 · 32 citations

  12. Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19

    2021 · 31 citations

  13. Collaborative management of studentification processes: the case of Newcastle upon Tyne

    2017 · 24 citations

  14. Participatory processes in designing cohousing communities: the case of the community project

    2016 · 24 citations

  15. Persistence of Scepticism in Media Reporting on Climate Change: The Case of British Newspapers

    2020 · 24 citations

  16. Representation of climate change consequences in British newspapers

    2021 · 21 citations

  17. Investigating how the interaction between individual and circumstantial determinants influence the emergence of digital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families with children in England

    2023 · 20 citations

  18. The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life

    2024 · 18 citations

  19. Digital practices across the UK population: The influence of socio-economic and techno-social variables in the use of the Internet

    2021 · 16 citations

  20. Digital-Environmental Poverty

    2024 · 15 citations

  21. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Perception of Climate Change in the UK

    2022 · 14 citations

  22. Digital capital and online activities: An empirical analysis of the second level of digital divide

    2020 · 13 citations

  23. Measuring digital capital in Italy

    2023 · 13 citations

  24. Examining the Interplay of Sociodemographic and Sociotechnical Factors on Users’ Perceived Digital Skills

    2024 · 12 citations

  25. Converting Digital Capital in Five Key Life Realms

    2022 · 10 citations

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