Vito Saracino is a researcher specializing in the concept of cultural hegemony in the field of media studies. He is currently the Coordinator of research activities abroad at the Gramsci Foundation of Puglia. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow on the project "Local Information as a Social Construction" and as an Adjunct Professor of Social History of the Media at the Department of Economics, Management, and Territory at the University of Foggia; Contemporary History at the Department of Economics at the University of Foggia, and Digital Politics in the course of “Digital Innovation and Communication” at IUL University.