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COSIMO MARCO SCARCELLI

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

Address

VIA M. CESAROTTI, 10/12 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274365

E-mail

cosimomarco.scarcelli@unipd.it

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, PhD, is an Associate Professor at department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). He teaches Digital Media and Society (BD in communication) and Digital Culture, Gender and Society (MD in Strategies of Communication) and he is member of the board of PhD Programme in Social Sciences.
He is the director of the BD programme in Communication (University of Padova).
His research deals with: sexuality, gender and digital culture; intimacies; pornography; masculinities; love and emotions; young people. He is particularly interested in qualitative and participatory research.
He has been the principal editor of the book Gender and sexuality in the European media (Routledge, 2021) and associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication (Wiley, 2020).
Cosimo Marco is the author of essays for international journals such as Journal of Gender Studies, Information, Communication & Society, Mediekultur, Porn Studies.
He is an Editor of Journal of Gender Studies and member of the editorial board of Sexualities.
From 2016 to 2021 he served as vice-chair and then chair for ECREA’s Gender, Sexuality & Communication section.
Cosimo Marco also works as a digital media educator (working primarily on the relations between digital media, gender and sexuality), in collaboration with different institutions and NGOs.

Notices

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 17:00 to 19:00
    at Studio del docente, al secondo piano del Dipartimento FISPPA - Sede di Sociologia, via Cesarotti 10/12. In alternativa il ricevimento si potrà svolgere via Zoom (su richiesta)
    Si riceve previo appuntamento da richiedere scrivendo una mail a cosimomarco.scarcelli@unipd.it almeno 2 giorni prima del ricevimento.

Teachings

Publications

MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS (The entire list is in the attached file)


Books
(2022), Young People and the Smartphone. Everyday Life on the Small Screen, Palgrave, London (Con M. Drusian e P. Magaudda)

(2018), Sociologia dei New Media, UTET, Torino (Con R. Stella, C. Riva e M. Drusian). (IT) [1^ ed. 2014]

(2015), Intimità digitali. Adolescenti, amore e sessualità ai tempi di internet, FrancoAngeli, Milano. (IT)

Edited Books
(2022) con T. Krijnen, P.G. Nixon, M. D. Ravenscroft, C.M. Scarcelli, Identities and Intimacies on Social Media. Transnational Perspectives, Routledge, London.

(2022) con M. Farci, Media digitali, genere e sessualità, Mondadori, Milano.

(2021), Principal editor (with Despina Chronaki, Sara de Vuyst and Sergio Villanueva Baselga) of the edited collection “Gender and sexuality in the European media. Exploring different contexts through conceptualisations of age”, Routledge, London. (EN)


Peer reviewed papers
(2023), con M. Farci, “Men have to be competent in something, women need to show their bodies. Gender, digital youth cultures and popularity”, Journal of Gender Studies [Articolo in Rivista di Classe A settore 14C2]

(2022), “Quantifying sex. Sex tracking apps and users’ practices”, Sexualities, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221137323 [Articolo in rivista indicizzata in Scopus, scientifica area 14]

(2022), con L. Antoniazzi, L. Barra, T. Bonini, “I media studies e la sfida dei cultural studies. Direzioni e prospettive”, Studi Culturali [Articolo in Rivista di Classe A settore 14C2]

(2022), con A. Lovari, “Pratiche comunicative di salute LGBT e social media: una ricerca esplorativa su TikTok”, Salute e Società, 2 [Articolo in Rivista di Classe A settore 14C2]

(2021), “È uno sporco lavoro ma qualcuna\o lo deve pur fare. Studiare il rapporto tra sesso, sessualità e media digitali”, Mediascape Journal, 18, pp. 16-28 [Articolo in Rivista di Classe A settore 14C2]

(2021), con D. Cardoso, “The bodies of the (digitized) body: Experiences of sexual(ised) work on OnlyFans”, MedieKultur (2021), 37, 71, pp. 98-121-. DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.122642 [Articolo in rivista indicizzata in Scopus e scientifica settore 14C2]

(2021), “Manosphere periferiche. Ragazzi, omosocialità e pratiche digitali”, About Gender. International Journal of Gender Studies [Articolo in Rivista di Classe A settore 14C2]


Chapters in edited books
(2023), “Genere e sessualità su TikTok. Identità e valori tra spazi di libertà e forme di controllo”, in G. Marino e B. Surace (a cura di), TikTok. Capire le dinamiche della comunicazione ipersocial, Hoepli, Milano.

(2022), “Digital sex work? Creating and selling explicit content in OnlyFans”, in T. Krijnen, P.G. Nixon, M. D. Ravenscroft, C.M. Scarcelli, (eds.), Identities and Intimacies on Social Media.Transnational Perspectives, Routledge, London (con D. Cardoso e D. Chronaki). (EN)

(2022), “Coming of Age: The alluring development of Sex Toys”, in E. Rees (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture, Routledge, London (con P. Nixon). (EN)

(2020), “Teenage Perspectives on Sexting and Pleasure in Italy: Going Beyond the Concept of Moral Panic”, in L. Tsaliki e D. Chronaki (eds.), Discourses of anxiety about childhood and youth across cultures, Palgrave MacMillan, London. (EN)

Research Area

Sociology of communication
Sociology of digital media
Media studies
Gender, Sexuality and Digital Culture
Digital Intimacies

Thesis proposals

Intimacy & digital media
Sex, sexualities and media/digital media
Gender and media/digital media