Projects
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
Project
RIVA Illustrations had the pleasure to work with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University to create the Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media by Chand Rajendra Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman. Ethan is looking at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. This Guide features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures. Illustrations by Fiammetta Ghedini.
Read the Guide here
Client
Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, information, and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Initiative on Digital Public Infrastructure. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the use of new media technologies by activists, and alternative business and governance models for the internet. Zuckerman was the visiting research scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Artist
Fiammetta Ghedini is the co-founder of RIVA Illustrations. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Sciences in 2011, she worked as the editorial coordinator of the European research communication project ERCcOMICS (2015–2019), which used comics to make cutting-edge science accessible to a wider audience.
Since 2019, she has been working as an artist and science communicator at RIVA Illustrations, creating illustrations, graphic novels, and visual narratives that bridge art and research.
In 2025, she published her first comic book with Dargaud, titled Une Insatiable Envie de Douceur, a thought-provoking and visually rich exploration of our complex relationship with sugar.
