Professor of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II, and Past-President of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica. He is the Editor of the Rivista of Digital Politics, www.digitalpolitics.it, and of the IPSA Web Portal for Electronic Sources. His international activities include Visiting Professor, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris; Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Cornell University; Research Fellow, Harvard Center for European Studies. His recent interests focus on Internet epistemology and culture. With Theodore J. Lowi, he has published Hyperpolitics, an Interactive Dictionary of Political Science, University of Chicago Press and www.hyperpolitics.net. He is the Director of Federica Weblearning, Center for Innovation and Dissemination of Distance Education.