Alberto Romele is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media (semiotics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics) at the ICM, the Institute of Communication and Media, Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He has been a researcher at the IZEW, the International Center for Ethics in Sciences and Technology, University of Tübingen, an associate professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at the Catholic University of Lille, and a postdoc at the University of Porto. He holds a PhD from the University of Verona. His research focuses on digital hermeneutics, the imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and, more recently, the use of popular images in communication on science and technology. His research has appeared in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Surveillance & Society, and AI & Society. He is the author of two monographs: Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies (Routledge, 2019); Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence (Routledge, 2023).