European / International Joint Ph.D. in
Social Representation and Communication

Science and Social Representations

  • II.1. Public understanding and social representations of science: how scientific discoveries and theories are transformed “by” and “into” the common sense; the role of experts in the media between scientists and ordinary people; model of transmission and transformation of scientific information in discovery of the faithfulness gene; communicative practices and scientific research: the disinterest of young people in scientific studies; circulation and transformation of information, like rumour phenomena; from replacing to coexisting models of myth, science and social representations; for a dialogue between social sciences, natural sciences and neurosciences; science and ideology: the role of political context: Sapienza University of Rome – Italy;University of Lausanne – Switzerland; University “A.I. Cuza” Iasi – Romania
  • II.2. Social Representations of Psychoanalysis among lay people and professionals. The role of experts in the media between scientists and ordinary people; communicative practices and scientific research; the role of traditional and digital media (including social networks) in the social construction of everyday knowledge. Exemplary case study: a bi-national (Italy-France) follow-up and an extension of Moscovici’s seminal study on Psychoanalysis, its image, its public (1961/1976) in the era of Faceboo: Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
  • II.3. Mapping the dynamics of knowledge production, dissemination and impact of the social representations scientific literature in various thematic areas of societal interest, across geo-cultural contexts and by author’s institutional affiliation, along several generations of scientists: Sapienza University of Rome – Italy; Elsevier BV – Netherlands
  • II.4. The “impact of the impact”:  the social representations of the bibliometric culture and its practices in the academic community: Sapienza University of Rome – Italy; Elsevier BV – Netherlands