Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

Dr Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

Small Group Project 2021-22

Digital Intimacies and Emerging Adults in Southern Europe: Crisis, Pandemics and Resistances

This project aims to be the basis of a series of international collaborations between different academic institutions, and between academia and civil society, in exploring the techno-mediated landscape of contemporary digital intimacies. We will dedicate a special emphasis to young / emerging adults, and to the impacts - positive and negative, personal and communitarian, subjective and material - that the COVID19 pandemic has had on how processes of intimate sociability have quickly changed, morphed, and also remained surprisingly similar.

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Research outcomes

Cardoso, D., Chronaki, D., & Scarcelli, C. M. (2022).

Digital sex work?: Creating and selling explicit content in OnlyFans. In Identities and intimacies on social media (pp. 169-184). Routledge.

Areas of interest

Sexuality Gender Digital Culture Intimacy Pornography Masculinity Emotions Youth Participatory Research

Cohort

FG7

Biography

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, PhD, is Associate professor/reader at department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy). He teaches New Media (BD in communication) and Digital Culture and Society (MD in Strategies of Communication) and he is member of the board of PhD Programme in Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions.

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).

Biographical details correct as of 27.04.26