Massimo Ragnedda (PhD) is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Sharjah University (UAE) and Northumbria University (UK) and Honorary Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is co-chair of the Digital Divide Working Group (IAMCR), co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities book series and ambassador for the Digital Poverty Alliance.
He has authored and edited eighteen books with his publications appearing in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian texts.