What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society

Fabrizio Martire (PhD) is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. Among his main scientific interests: sociological theory, history of sociology and social researches, methodology of social researches (with a specific focus on data collection strategies and techniques), public opinion analysis, evaluation (with a specific focus on quality of social research outputs). On these issues he has organized and supervised several scientific projects, publishing almost 70 essays (monographs, edited volumes, articles in Italian and international journals, chapters). He has attended several international and Italian conferences, giving seminars in a number of foreign universities (Spain, Republic of Korea, Chile, Colombia). He is member of the Advisory Board of the Research Network – Quantitative Methods (RN21) of the European Sociological Association (since 2019); partner of the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability”, Berlin, Technische Universität; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Editorial Series “Methodology of Human Sciences”, official series of the Section of Methodology of the Italian Sociological Association (since 2017); and member of the Teaching Board of the doctoral course in communication, social research and marketing, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2021, he is the Director of the BA program in “Communication, technologies and digital cultures” at Sapienza University of Rome.