University of Salerno

Domenico Maddaloni, PhD in Development Sociology, has worked as a researcher at the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Population and Social Policy Research. Since 2005, he has been professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy), where he currently teaches Sociology and Sociology of Globalization. He is head of the Sociology Unit in ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research), and he is co-editor in chief of the Athens Journal of Social Sciences. His recent research work has focused mainly on social and political change, globalisation, and international migration.

Domenico Fruncillo, PhD in Sociology and Social Research, is associate Professor at the University of Salerno (Italy) where he teaches Political Sociology, and Public Opinion and Deliberation. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Compol -Comunicazione politica (Il Mulino). His research focuses on electoral abstentionism, voting behaviour, elections and primaries, political parties, populism and the transformation of democracies. 

Felice Addeo, PhD in Communication Science, is Associate Professor in Social Research Methods at the University of Salerno, Department of Political and Communication Science, where He holds the chairs of “Social Research Methods” and “Communication and Market Research Methods”. He is a methodologist with a broad and consolidated experience in Social Science Research. His research ranges across different disciplinary fields (digital capital, electoral studies, social cohesion, immigration, corporate communication, sustainable development, LGBT studies, marketing, game studies, etc.). His current research interests are social research methods; epistemology, quantitative research, qualitative research and mixed methods, online research methods, netnography, sustainable development, social cohesion, migration studies

Angela Delli Paoli is Senior Researcher (tenure-track) and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education (University of Salerno) where she teaches Sociology and Social Research Methods.  She is a methodologist with an expertise on both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her recent research work has focused on digital social research, digital ethnography and international migration (particularly the new Italian emigration). She participates as senior researcher and expert evaluator in several European, national, and regional expert groups.