Emiliana Mangone is Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). Her main research interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study of the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published:Towards a Sociology of Hope: Looking Beyond(with G. Gili) (2025) andCulture and Everyday Life in Rela(c)tion(with G. Russo) (2025).

Michele Sorice is Full Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Social Research (CoRiS), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research activities are in the field of critical sociology and critical media studies (communication and civic engagement, digital platforms and media, media and democracy, democratic innovation and participatory processes, political communication, neoliberalism and depoliticisation, digital activism and social movements). He recently published:The Public Role of Italian Sociology: Among Institutions, Universities and Social Engagement(The American Sociologist, 2024) (with L. Viviani) andConfini invisibili. Comunità liminali e pratiche di resistenza nella città neoliberista(2024) (with M.C. Antonucci and A. Volterrani).

Estrella Gualda is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she served as Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre (1995-2026). She is a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida. Her current research focuses on social, political, economic and cultural issues, with emphasis on digital and computational sociology, including conspiracy theories and hate-related narratives, and advances in research methods, techniques, and software for the social sciences. She recently published:Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Augmented Analytics vs Big Data and Data Science: New Avenues for Social Research(Revista CENTRA de Ciencias Sociales, 2026).