Emiliana Mangone is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy. She is a Director of the Narratives and Social Changes-International Research Group (2020-2026) and she was a Director of the International Centre for Studies and Research on “Mediterranean Knowledge” (2015-2020). Her main investigative interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, and knowledge as key elements to the human. She recently published: Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism. Society, Relationship, and Responsibility (Information Age Publishing, 2020); Social and Cultural Dynamics. Revisiting the Work of Pitirim A. Sorokin (Springer, 2018); Gender and Sexuality in the Migration Trajectories. Studies Between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean Shores (Information Age Publishing, 2018, with G. Masullo & M. Gallego, eds).