The So.Re.Com. “A.S. de Rosa” @-library for Documentation, Networking, and Training

Born from a personal bibliographic inventory, initially including almost 500 references in the field of Social Representations and Communication, the So.Re.Com. “A.S. de Rosa” @-library has been transferred into an ad-hoc designed relational database implemented in 1996 on the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication website (de Rosa, 2000, 2001, 2004 a, 2004 b, 2006; 2008, 2009 a, 2009 b, 2010 a, 2010 b, 2010 c; 2011; de Rosa, Picone, 2007). It is built on an on-going multi-year project aimed at an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the whole literature on Social Representations (de Rosa, A.S. 2013 a, 2013 b). Guided by the main goal of evaluating the impact of the scientific production driven by the Social Representations theory in the social arena faced with social demand, the aim is to take stock of the scientific field developed in more than 50 years by conducting an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the literature on Social Representations, mapping the development of different paradigms, the related research methods, the thematic areas and their impact on the various applied fields within the multi-generational community of scientists and across different geo-cultural contexts. This research program is led by de Rosa, creator and program director of both the European/International Joint PhD in S.R. & C. (http://www.europhd.eu/SoReComTHEmaticNETwork), a network of networks that promotes co-operation between academic, professional research and commercial institutions and facilitates the dissemination of scientific results in the field of Social Representations