Elena Pavan is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento. Her main research interests pertain to the nexus between digital media and social movements particularly in the field of gender-related mobilizations. In her work, she combines network analysis, digital methods and big data approaches to unveil the implications of digital media use in contemporary mobilization processes. Her work has been published in international journals such as Global Networks, Policy and Society, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Information Communication and Society, Social Media+Society.