Mission, tools, and ongoing developments in the So.Re.Com. “A.S. de Rosa” @-library

The goal of this contribution is to present background, mission, ongoing developments and future research directions of the So.Re.Com. “A.S. de Rosa” @-library: a digital platform integrating scientific documentation, networking and training purposes in the field of Social Representations and Communication (So.Re.Com.). It is built on an on-going multi-year project aimed at an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the whole literature on Social Representations. 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.