Alessia D’Andrea received a degree in communication science from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in multimedia communication at the University of Udine, sponsored by the IRPPS of the National Research Council of Italy in 2011. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council of Italy. She has participated in several national and international research projects. She is the author of more than 50 papers in international journals, conferences, and books. She is mainly interested in web technologies and applications, social networks, human–computer interaction, communication science, e-marketing and e-business, and health studies.