Maria Carmela Catone- PhD in Methodology of Social Sciences
- Senior Researcher at University of Salerno
Maria Carmela Catone
- PhD in Methodology of Social Sciences
- Senior Researcher at University of Salerno
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Navigating the vast sea of information in the digital age poses significant challenges, especially when it comes to discerning fake news from authentic information. This intricate task becomes even more challenging when the fake news is artfully presented as truth. Fake news often disguises itself as credible content and, by rapidly proliferating o...
The analysis of contemporary society, characterized by technological, economic, political, social, and cultural changes, has become more challenging due to the development of the internet and information and communication technologies, which provide a vast and increasingly valuable source of information, knowledge, and data. Within this context, so...
This paper explores the different uses of the Twitter social media made by the top 100 universities in the world as classified by The 2018 Times Higher Education World Ranking (THE). The aim is to relate the THE Ranking performance indicators to the data from the Twitter activities of each university, in order to understand if the level of the univ...
The present study focuses on the usefulness of social network analysis in unveiling network patterns in social media. Specifically, the propagation and consumption of information on Twitter through network analysis tools are investigated to discover the presence of specific conversational patterns in the derived online data. The choosing of Twitter...
this paper analyses the complex relationship between digital practices, communicative codes and social inequalities in the period of the pandemic in Italy, through the analysis of data collected from a broader research project based on a web survey administered to 13,473 Italians. The study examined the use of social media by the respondents to acq...
This volume is the result of the path of theoretical reflection and empirical research that we have carried out in
recent years on the subject of distance education in univer-
sities and, in particular, on the ways of providing courses
in social research methodology.
Our need to give a more systematic and organized form
to the observations and re...
La condizione di isolamento causata dalla diffusione del Covid-19 ha generato un cambiamento delle abitudini della vita quotidiana in termini di tempi, spazi, attività, relazioni sociali e Internet, nelle sue diverse articolazioni, ha inciso in maniera determinante nella riconfigurazione di tali aspetti e processi. La comunicazione in particolare h...
The new challenges arising from the complexity of contemporary society, the availability of different kinds of data and new data sources, in addition to the data analytics tools that merge different disciplines are contributing to a reconfiguration of Social Research Methods. This article aims to analyze the keywords of 985 scientific papers publis...
The present work faces the problem of automatic classification and representation of unstructured texts into the Cultural Heritage domain. The research is carried out through a methodology based on the exploitation of machine-readable dictionaries of terminological simple words and multiword expressions. In the paper we will discuss the design and...
This article examines the process of socialization to university context of the
first-year students. In particular, we present the main results of an empirical research
aimed at investigating the delicate transitional moment from secondary
school to university of the first-year students of the 1st level degree course in
Sociology at the University...
Perché un flusso di emigrazione italiana in direzione dell'unico altro Paese europeo che vive una crisi economica più forte della nostra? Chi può essere interessato ad emigrare, e a rimanere, nella Grecia di oggi e in un'area urbana come quella di Atene? Siamo forse di fronte ad un fenomeno motivato dall'adesione ad uno stile di vita altro e a valo...
Uno degli ostacoli più frequenti che incontrano gli studenti iscritti ai corsi
universitari di tipo sociologico riguarda la comprensione degli aspetti
statistico–matematici legati ai metodi di ricerca empirica di tipo quantitativo.
In realtà, in un percorso di studio sociologico questi concetti sono
fondamentali in quanto la sociologia è una scienz...
The interest of sociologists in narratives has become more profound in the last few decades due to the growing awareness that narratives are an inherent part of everyday life and are directly linked with the construction of our identity. Narrative takes on an even more signi cant role when contextualized in a contemporary society in which technolog...
This article aims to reflect on the experiences of university teachers who
in recent years have begun to use new technology in their teaching activities.
In particular, through empirical research based on qualitative interviews, the
article focuses on the use of ICT for e-learning by a group of teachers of the
first level degree course in Sociology...
In recent years ICT is having a significant impact upon learning and teaching processes, emphasizing collaborative discourse, knowledge building and the performance of real tasks. This paper illustrates the design activity for the undergraduate course in Social Research Methods offered as part of the bachelor degree in Sociology at the University o...
Attempts to establish constitutional provisions for the Internet have been promoted since the late 1990s, mainly by the global civil society and intergovernmental organisations. More recently, a new wave of digital constitutionalism has emerged from the nation-state level, and particularly from national parliaments. In order to better understand th...
Lo sport è un fenomeno articolato che riproduce una molteplicità di dimensioni tipiche della società contemporanea, la cui analisi può contribuire alla comprensione di fatti sociali più ampi. Attorno allo sport ruota un insieme eterogeneo di significati, interessi, passioni, attività, rituali che si manifestano sia livello micro che macro. Lo sport...
The awareness that phenomena (social, natural) are for the most part complex and consequently require more realistic models has led to the development of powerful new concepts and tools to detect, analyse, and understand non-stationarity and apparently random behaviour. Almost all existing linear and nonlinear techniques used for the study of time...
Starting from a reflection on the aims and learning outcomes of the undergraduate course on social research methods and an analysis of the entry level skills of students, especially related to the numerical reasoning, this article illustrates the design process of the course in a blended format. In particular, we present the activities of translati...
A partire da una riflessione più generale sul rapporto teoria-pratica nella ricerca empirica e
da un’analisi degli obiettivi formativi dell’insegnamento di metodologia e tecnica della ricerca
sociale in ambito accademico, in questo contributo si illustrano le linee guida su cui si
struttura la progettazione del corso in modalità blended. Tale attiv...
This paper presents the main results of an empirical research, carried out under a K2 Erasmus Plus European project, lasting from September 2014 to December 2016, aimed at supporting the social inclusion of young inmates and preparing them to deal with the labor market. The research, through a mixed methods approach which consisted of a com-bined u...
The awareness that phenomena (social, natural) are for the most part complex and consequently require more realistic models has led to the development of powerful new concepts and tools to detect, analyse, and understand non-stationarity and apparently random behaviour. Almost all existing linear and nonlinear techniques used for the study of time...
This paper shows the main results of an empirical research conducted under the ILA employability
project (Innovative Learning Approaches in Staff Training and Young Offenders' Employability Support), an
European project that supports inclusion of youth at risk. The research aimed at identifying the criminogenic
factors of young delinquency in order...
Learning Approaches in Staff Training and Young Offenders' Employability Support).
In this paper, we will provide the main results of an empirical research regarding the skills and the
capabilities that young offenders can develop during their stay in the prison, in order to foster the social
integration after their release and to reduce the risk f...
Starting with an overview of the opportunities provided by e-learning in the educational environment, this paper discusses a blended course in social science methodology offered to around 160 students taking the undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Salerno (Italy). In particular, it provides a reflection on ten challenges of the disc...
Internet spread and its relevance for modern societies, the increasing of geopolitical conflicts relating to its management, and concerns generated by disclosures about mass surveillance programmes, have decisively moved Internet governance issues at the centre of the international public debate. In this scenario, one of the most important politica...
In questo contributo viene presentato il corso blended di Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali
attivato presso il Corso di Laurea triennale in Sociologia dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno
nell’a.a. 2014/2015. In particolare, a partire dall’individuazione delle caratteristiche degli
studenti e della disciplina, si mostrano alcuni risultati di una...
In last years, Universities are updating their educational activities, thanks to the introduction of
e-learning. In this paper, the e-learning course in social sciences methodology, activated in the
undergraduate programme in Sociology at the University of Salerno, is presented in order to show
how the traditional difficulties of this discipline ar...
The present work is an application of linear and non-linear tools, with particular attention to the chaotic dynamics, in order to analyze the daily visits to the Italian newspaper website “La Repubblica”. The series is examined, using the time chart, the recurrence plot and the power spectrum. In the phase space, the detrend series consists of 5 cl...
