Vincenzo Auriemma

• Phd in Sociology
• Research Assistant at University of Salerno

Considering cyberbullying as a challenging frontier of analysis in the social sciences, we find ourselves today with the duty to analyze it within a much broader social context. Indeed, we must take into account the logic of exclusion, as a fact. Today, in the logic of how the Internet works, a thin line separates the victim from the perpetrator; t...

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has had significant psychological and social effects on the population. Research has highlighted the impact on psychological well-being of the most exposed groups, including children, college students, and health workers, who are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and other sympt...

The lock-down measures adopted in all countries of the world have led to far-reaching social and economic changes. The health emergency had immediate repercussions first on the social system and then on the economic one. The social repression measures taken to limit the infection have generated a drastic change in daily life, detaching ourselves fr...

The paper investigates the TV series The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) as a space of representation of the cultural and media consumption of the Post-Millennials. In particular, it will explore the ways in which the audiences appropriates the symbolic heritage of the nerd subculture, developing a level of empathic identification with the characters a...

Il progetto di ricerca, da cui questo volume deriva, prende il nome dell’eroe della mitologia greca Perseo, il quale uccide Medusa salvando Andromeda. Nella speranza che la psicologia possa essere salvata come Andromeda dalle accuse di non scientificità proferite dalla Medusa di turno. Allo stesso modo il nostro intento è stato quello di incrementa...

The purpose of this literature review is to highlight the relationship between technostress and conflict, which is having great resonance in various fields, including economics, sociology and psychology. The theme has different declinations, becoming a polysemic concept and applicable, in a broad sense, in any sphere of our lives. We need only thin...

This article aims bring to light the drastic change that has taken place over the years, especially among the younger generation, towards profanities in Italy. This practice, traditionally offensive and arcane, and therefore before not very polite, is now common among very young age groups, between 12 and 17 years old, thus before “adulthood” as de...

This article offers an exploration of the theoretical and methodological implications related to the concept of digital embodiment in the field of contemporary communication. It seeks to analyze a crucial intersection between the virtual and material dimensions of human experience, enabling a deeper understanding of how bodies are shaped, visualize...

Within this chapter, a methodological preface of fundamental importance for a scientific approach capable of making sociological paradigms applicable and proceeding in the research work towards empathy will be placed. In particular, we will discuss the trans-disciplinary approach, the motivation behind the choice of the transdisciplinary approach l...

For decades, there has been a clash between the sciences, with numerous attempts to assert themselves over the other on issues such as morals, ethics, emotions and actions. Today, on the contrary, it is noticeable how the sciences, more often than not, work in concert, with the aim of achieving a result, which is as broad and defined as possible. W...

Before proceeding with a careful analysis of the possible methodological applications of the concept of empathy and, therefore, of the possibility of carrying out empirical research from the said concept, it is necessary to go and lay a solid foundation for the functioning of a methodological one. Basically, given the social and cultural transforma...

The concept of empathy is polysemous in nature; it has been and is being analyzed in different disciplines, in different contexts, and, most importantly, it has been given different meanings. However, the concept of empathy has its roots in the classical and philosophical concept of sympathy. Before coming to a detailed analysis, it is useful to po...

The intent of this article is to shed light on the future challenges that sociology, in concert with other disciplines, will have to face from now on, starting with one of the possible hypotheses of research methodology. Indeed, as much as some of these issues in the last two decades have become the preserve of neuroscience, their origins, namely t...

The goal of this paper is to highlight the role of new technologies, pointing out how the high level of technologization we are experiencing allows for a twofold analysis of society: on the one hand, we note how interactions are mediated mostly by a screen; therefore, emotions undergo a necessary transformation, ranging from a mitigation of empathy...

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease that was first recognized in China in late 2019. Among the primary effects caused by the pandemic, there was the dissemination of health preventive measures such as physical distancing, travel restrictions, self-isolation, quarantines, and facili...

Managing COVID-19 patients has been an extremely difficult and dramatic task, especially for emergency departments during the strongest waves of the pandemic in Italy. Medical staff and health professionals were redeployed from their work setting to COVID units; many were overwhelmed by the deaths of so many patients in a very short time. This work...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic impacted healthcare professionals psychologically. They were unprepared to handle such a powerful and unknown virus. Consequently, they had to face situations of extreme distress, developing vicarious traumatization and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The first one is associated with the “cost of caring” for othe...

Belonging to social groups is an important need for human beings and social exclusion has a significant psychological impact on individual wellbeing. Social neuroscience has clarified the similarity of the neuronal substrate between physical pain and social pain during the experience of social exclusion. Pain is the oldest signal that something is...

Nel giugno 2021, tramite questionari anonimi, al termine della seconda ondata della pandemia Covid 19, abbiamo svolto un’indagine verificando la scelta degli argomenti da approfondire in successivi corsi di formazione in un gruppo di 42 persone costituito da 23 Infermieri, 10 Medici, 5 OSS e 2 Fisioterapisti (2 persone non hanno evidenziato la loro...

Il seguente articolo è una recensione del testo “Post-spettatorialità. L’esperienza del cinema nell’era digitale”, di Mario Tirino. Si è cercato di sottolineare, dal punto di visto psicologico-sociale, le caratteristiche, strettamente legate al libro, del cinema nella nuova era. Dunque, evidenziando diverse logiche che vanno dal cinema al selfie, v...

Il seguente articolo è una recensione del testo "Post-spettatorialità. L'esperienza del cinema nell'era digitale", di Mario Tirino. Si è cercato di sottolineare, dal punto di visto psicologico-sociale, le caratteristiche, strettamente legate al libro, del cinema nella nuova era. Dunque, evidenziando diverse logiche che vanno dal cinema al selfie, v...