Giovanni Boccia Artieri
University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Italy

Giovanni Boccia Artieri (Ph.D.) is Full Professor in Sociology of Communication and Digital Media and Dean at the Dept. of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies, University of Urbino Carlo Bo. He is Coordinator of the Ph.D. program on Humanities. His main research interests revolve around media theory, with a focus on social media and participatory culture. He has published many articles in national and international Journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Current Sociology, International Journal of Communication, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies.

Francesca Greco
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy

Francesca Greco (Ph.D.) is Post Doc at the Department of Education, University of Roma Tre, and Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. She was R&D manager of Prisma S.r.l. She is representative on organ donation for the Scientific Board of the Research Network in Sociology of Health and Medicine, Italian Sociological Association. She developed the Emotional Text Mining method that was awarded by the University Paris Descartes, USPC. She is an expert in social science research methods, computational sociology, big data, text mining, health sociology, and disability studies. On these topics she is the author of several papers and books for national and international journals (Social Indicator Research, Quality & Quantity, International Journal of Informational Management) and editors.

Gevisa La Rocca
University Kore of Enna
Italy

Gevisa La Rocca (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication at the University Kore of Enna, she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Processes and Cultural Institutions Group of the Italian Association of Sociology. She has a background in sociology, communication, quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her research interests cover communication research, hashtags studies, textual data analysis, risk studies. On these topics she has written several articles for national and international journals (Sage Open, Revue Internationale De Sociologie, Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales) and has written or was co-editor of books.