Professor of Sociology of cultural processes and director of the Department of Communications and social research at the Sapienza University in Rome. Chair of the National Conference of the faculty and degree courses in Communication Science. Amongst his more recent publications are "Neogiornalismo, Tra Crisi e Rete, come cambia il sistema dell’informazione" (Neo-journalism. Between Crisis and Network, how the information system is changing) e "Università al futuro. Sistema, progetto, innovazione" (University in the future tense. System, project, innovation.