Leopoldina Fortunati is professor of Sociology of Communication at the University of Udine, Department of Economics, Society and Territory. She has conducted several research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes and communication and information technologies. She is very active at European level especially in COST networks. Her works have been published in eleven languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish. [email:fortunati.deluca@tin.it]