Simone Petrella is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University, Braga Regional Center (FFCS-UCP). He completed the European Doctorate in Communication Sciences (funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology) at the University of Minho with a thesis on media literacy and intergenerational relationships. He is an Integrated Researcher at the Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University, and a collaborator at the Center for Communication and Society Studies at the University of Minho.