The Role of Academic Social Networking in the Dissemination of the Social Representations Literature

The anthropological and ethnographic approaches to social representations theory: a systematic meta-theoretical analysis of publications based on empirical studies

“…Thus, pertaining to the sample used, as we already mentioned, it was extracted from the So.Re.Com "A.S. de Rosa" @-library (de Rosa 2015a(de Rosa , b, 2017, which since 1994 is subject to continuous technological improvements, to expansion in terms of the documentation filed in the repositories and to the updating of the research tools. It was further enriched during the timeframe (2013-2017) of the SoReCom Joint-IDP program (aimed at the research training "by" and "for" research), the current paper being one of the scientific outcomes of the project, and it currently continues to be updated, having retrieved an impressive wealth of data which certifies it as the most comprehensive @-library worldwide specialized in Social Representations, having included in 2016 alone over 70% of all the sources available in three academic social networks (de Rosa 2015b(de Rosa , 2017de Rosa et al 2016de Rosa et al , 2017a.…”

“…The present paper is focused on the Anthropological and Ethnographic approaches to Social Representations Theory (SRT), as part of a larger research project launched by de Rosa in 1994, 1 aimed at meta-theoretically analysing the entire corpus of scientific literature on SRT, in order to assess how the theory was diffused and disseminated conceptually, in respect to other theories, thematically and empirically across time and geo-cultural contexts (de Rosa 2013a(de Rosa , 2013b(de Rosa , 2015a(de Rosa , b, 2016a(de Rosa , b, 2017de Rosa et al 2016de Rosa et al , 2017ade Rosa et al , b, c, 2018. Developed by Serge Moscovici in the 1950s in France, Social Representations Theory was meant as an important building block in creating an European Social Psychology, complementary to the traditional approaches in Social Psychology (Moscovici and Marková 2006), yet with an overarching aim at bridging the gap between the disciplines in social sciences and their isolated constructs within an emerging supra-disciplinary field, a new map for social thought (de Rosa 2013a(de Rosa , 2017Jodelet 2008Jodelet , 2018Kalampalikis and Haas 2008;Rateau et al 2011;Wagner et al 1999).…”

Social Representation Faced to Science and Technological Development, Its Regulatory Policies and Impact on Education

“…The results of the data analysis show the crucial role that different socio-and geo-cultural contexts play in the dissemination of knowledge and science popularisation. In particular, in accordance with our exploratory hypotheses -based on the assumption that the education and communication of science deals with the government, economic, cultural, educational and other policies, thus orienting also research interests of social scientists -we found out differences in the process of the dissemination the literature on social representations of education and science in different geo-cultural contexts, clearly differentiating the European and Latin American contexts in which the literature on social representations has been produced and disseminated over more than five decades [5], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [22], [23], [24]. For example, according to the empirical results people in Latin America seem to be more concerned with the issues in the system of education and professionalization in the domains of education and health, rather than with the science popularisation.…”

“…This focus has been a core interest of the theory since the beginning; indeed, "Moscovici's choice of psychoanalysis (as both a theory and a therapeutic practice) -an object of knowledge/ experience much discussed in France during the 1950s -was prompted by his intent to study the transformations, the similarities and/ or differences between expert knowledge and everyday knowledge, between science and common sense, between 'reified universes' and 'consensual universes' with their specific modes of operation (processes) and functions in the broader symbolic system of social relations and ideological positions mediated by communication systems" [6], [55], [56], [57]. The Theory has been introduced more than fifty years ago in Europe; since then it has been disseminated in different geo-cultural contexts being applied in various scientific fields [5], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].…”

State of the art of social representations theory in Asia: An empirical meta-theoretical analysis

“…(1) Asian early-stage researchers who moved to Europe for their doctorates, working under the supervision of the theory founder or other leading scientists in SRT, especially at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France, the London School of Economics in the UK, and at the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication (SR&C) Research Centre and Multimedia Lab, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (see de Rosa, 2016a), followed by their return to Asia. (3) The scientific and institutional networking activities during the training events organised by the European/International Joint PhD in SR&C; the SoReCom "A.S.de Rosa"@-library and the Academic Social Networking in the dissemination of the Social Representations Literature (de Rosa, Bocci, Dryjanska, & Borrelli, 2016c;de Rosa et al, 2017ade Rosa et al, , 2017bde Rosa et al, , 2017c. It should be also noted that the decrease of frequencies shown in Figure 2 that apparently sanctions the scientific productivity for the period 2014-2016 also reflects the operational process for the retrieval of the sources; therefore, this decreased frequency should be taken as a provisional result (as confirmed by experience of data retrieval/accumulation in other geocultural areas).…”