Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture

Antonella Pocecco  is a researcher at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine, where she teaches Sociology of Mass Communications and Intercultural Communication. She is the coordinator the MECOME (Collective Memory and Media) research group and co-founder member of the international research group Narratives and Social Changes. Her latest publications include: (with M. Pascoli),  Visitare il passato. Il turismo della memoria della Grande guerra nel Friuli Venezia Giulia  (FrancoAngeli, 2021); “I media nella costruzione della memoria: la pluralizzazione del ricordo”, Metis - Mῆτις,. XXVIII, 2021, 1; “Transnationalism and Universalism of the Memory Tourism of the Great War”, J ournal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK , 5, 2020, 1; (ed.),  Memorie del presente. Luoghi, oggetti e culture della società globale  (FrancoAngeli, 2019).

  Estrella Gualda  is a Full Professor of Sociology, a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida, and past President of the Andalusian Sociological Association (2018-2022). She develops her work at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, University of Huelva, Spain, where she also is the Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre since 2001. She is a member of the COIDESO Research Centre at the University of Huelva and a co-founder member of the international research group Narratives & Social Changes – International Research Group, an Associate Researcher of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research, and a founder member of the Applied Computational Social Sciences Lab, at the University of Huelva. Recent publications are: “Big data y ciencias sociales: Una mirada comparativa a las publicaciones de antropología, sociología y trabajo social” (Gazeta de antropología, 2023); "Social big data, sociología y ciencias sociales computacionales" (Empiria, 2022); "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic” (Nature Communications, 2022, coauthor); “Conspiracy Mentality and Political Orientation across 26 countries” (Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, coauthor).

Emiliana Mangone  is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). She is Director of the Narratives and Social Changes-International Research Group (NaSC-IRG, 2020-2026) and she was Director of the International Centre for Studies and Research on “Mediterranean Knowledge” (2015-2020). Her main investigative interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study pf the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published: Pitirim A. Sorokin. Rediscovering a Master of Sociology (Vernon Press, 2023); Narratives and Social Change. Social Reality in Contemporary Society (Springer, 2022); Solidarietà sociale (Mondadori, 2022); Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism. Society, Relationship and Responsibility (Information Age Publishing, 2020).