Chiara Gius holds a PhD in Sociology of Culture and Communication from the Università di Padova. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Università di Bologna. Her research interests include gender issues, gender-based violence, humanitarian and social communication, as well as the migration experience. She has published extensively on gender-based violence perpetrated through digital technologies, with a focus on the social construction of the issue and its media representation, including within prevention and awareness campaigns. She has collaborated with research centers and academic institutions at both national and international levels.