Her influences include Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Antonio Negri, and Karl Marx.
She has conducted extensive research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes and communication and information technologies.
Fortunati is the author of several books, including The Arcane of Reproduction (Autonomedia, 1995) and I mostri nell’immaginario (Angeli, 1995), and is the editor of Gli Italiani al telefono (Angeli, 1995) and Telecomunicando in Europa (1998), and with J. Katz and R. Riccini Mediating the Human Body.
She has published many articles in journals such as The Information Society, Information, Communication, Society, Réseaux, Trends in communication, Revista de Estudios de Juventud, Widerspruche, Personal and Ubiquitous computing, Gazette.
Her works have been published in nine languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.