Lorenza Parisi is a PhD student in ‘Communication studies’ at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. Her main research interests are the interactions between social relations and digital technologies. Nowadays she is a researcher at Polo Universitario di Colle Val d’Elsa (SI) where she works at the development of the social network Panmind. She has been a visiting student at HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and at MIT Media Lab. She writes as blogger on the online magazine Nova 100, Il Sole 24 Ore.