Paolo Terenzi was born in Senigallia (AN) on 21 July 1973. In 2000 he was awarded a PhD in philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University and in 2003 he was awarded a PhD in sociology and political systems at the University of Parma. Since 2003 he has been a researcher in the sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the Department of Sociology of the University of Bologna.