Affiliation: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies

Alessia D’Andrea is a researcher at the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council of Italy. She received her degree in communication science from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2006. She earned her PhD in multimedia communication from the University of Udine in 2011, sponsored by the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) of the National Research Council of Italy. She has organized several international workshops and edited special issues as a guest editor for international journals. She has served as the CNR-IRPPS coordinator for several European projects. Since 2005, she has participated in 22 national and European research projects. She has authored more than 70 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, and books. Her research interests include participatory approaches, web technologies and applications, social networks, human–computer interaction, communication science, e-marketing and e-business, and health studies.