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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mario Imperioso

Citation names

  • Imperioso, Mario

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3311-CD53-2152
ORCID iD
0009-0000-7572-6883

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/02 - 2026/02
Ongoing
 Human Geography (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2025/01/01
Concluded
 Academic English Now (Outros)
Academic English Now, Italy
2023/01/09
Concluded
 Certificate of passing grade in Google IT Support Professional & Cybersecurity with Academy Rapido (Outros)
Academy Rapido, Italy
2019 - 2021
Concluded
 International Relations (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 graduated 110 cum laude
2020/05/15
Concluded
 Certificate of passing grade in Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice HarvardX FXB001 (Outros)
HarvardX Free online courses from Harvard University, Italy
2016 - 2019
Concluded
 Scienze Politiche e delle Relazioni Internazionali (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 graduated 102
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/06 - 2024/10/31 Content Moderator for TikTok Teleperformance Portugal, Portugal
2021/06 - 2022/04 Civil Service Volunteer Consorzio Icaro, Italy
2020 - 2022/04 Freelancer on Cyber Security issues involving minors Considera Soluzioni per il web, Italy
2021/06/01 - 2021/12/01 Research Internship Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II - Osservatorio Territori Digitali e Nuovi Strumenti di Aggregazione, Italy
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2019/06/01 - 2019/09/30 Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Part-time worker Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Imperioso, Mario. Digital World and Children: valuing cyber risks, crimes and security through new geographies of Internet ISBN: 9798406051979. Italy. 2021.
Book chapter
  1. Imperioso, Mario; Morgado, Paulo. "Gamify the City, XR, and Tomorrow's Metaverse". In Deviant Landscapes A Journey to Exotic and Imaginary Places and Spaces. Springer VS, 2025.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Carrapa, Giulia; Imperioso, Mario. "Mapping Resistance: Spatial Imagination between Paolo Volponi and the Minecraft Library (provisional title)". Paper presented in 4th Digital Geographies Conference – Special Session “Immersive Geographies”, Lisbona, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Imperioso, Mario. Corresponding author: Imperioso, Mario. "Transitioning to the City of the Future through the lense of Minors: Exploring Metaverse, Virtual and Augmented Reality". Lisbon, 2023.
    Accepted
  3. Imperioso, Mario. "Between Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite and Genshin Impact: discovering new metaworlds in a whole metaverse". Paper presented in IGOT - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2023.
    Accepted
  4. Imperioso, Mario. "Roblox and Second Life, a new virtual playground made in Metaworlds as components of Metaverse". Paper presented in EUGEO 2023 Barcelona, Barcelona, 2023.
    Accepted
Journal article
  1. Carrapa, Giulia; Imperioso, Mario. "Boundless Creativity: The Impact of Paolo Volponi and Minecraft on Imagination and Social Awareness (accepted for publication, 2025)". Rassegna Economica (2025):
    Accepted
  2. Imperioso, Mario. "FORTNITE, TOWARDS THE METAVERSE AND BEYOND: A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIRTUAL SPACE,REALITY, AND CHILDREN". GeoProgress Journal (2025):
    Under revision
  3. Imperioso, Mario. ""The impact of social networks and fake news on children's knowledge on environmental sustainability: Do children suffer from its portrayal online?"". Sustainable and Responsible Management (2022): 79. http://sustainable-and-responsible-management.org/download/1467/.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Imperioso, Mario. "Concretezza del Metaverso: analisi del significato, contenuto, abitanti e relazione con i bambini", SRM QUADERNI DI ECONOMIA SOCIALE, 2023, https://www.sr-m.it/it/cat/prod/322807/quaderni-di-economia-sociale-2-2023.htm.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/11/04 Embodied Inquiry in Metaverse Realms: Rethinking Ethnography for Immersive Virtual Environments 4th Digital Geographies Conference – Special Session “Immersive Geographies”
IGOT - University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/10/16 Participated as a guest speaker in the seminar entitled: “Geography Discovers the Metaverse: Perspectives and Applications in Roblox and Minecraft” The seminar was held as part of the course "Geografia Politica ed Economica" (Political and Economic Geography), taught by Professor Vittorio Amato. Geography Discovers the Metaverse: Perspectives and Applications in Roblox and Minecraft
Professor Vittorio Amato - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, UNINA (Naples, Italy)
2025/05/29 Metaverse and Children: New Virtual Lives in a New Universe to Explore ICS Open Day
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/04/11 Governance and Child Safety in the Metaverse: Analyzing Security Policies in Roblox and Fortnite International Seminar of Young Researchers on Geography
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/11/29 Ethnographic methods in the Metaverse: an approach between Novelty and Tradition Sovranita' digitale e geopolitica dell'Innovazione
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
2024/11/29 Metaverse for better sustainability: the case of the Oceans Laboratorio Metaverso per l'Ambiente. Nuove declinazioni del rapporto natura/cultura
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
2024/06/10 Empowering Environmental Education in Children through the Metaverse: The Roles of Roblox and Minecraft III Congresso de Geografia da Saúde de Países de Língua Portuguesa
(Brazil)
2024/05/30 Metaverse as new spaces for children Eurogeo
European Association of Geographers (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/12 Between the Metaverse and Video Games: Analysis of the Structure and Protection of Virtual Spaces in Relation to Minors 3rd Digital Geographies Conference: can digital technologies bring hope to vulnerable territories?
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/05 Roblox and Second Life, a new virtual playground made in Metaworlds as components of Metaverse EUGEO 2023 Barcelona
Association of Geographical Societies in Europe - FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFIA I HISTÒRIA – UB (Barcelona, Spain)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/11/03 - 2025/11/04 Organization and moderation (chair) of the Special Session(SS4a) – Immersive Geographies: Rethinking Space, Presence, Identity, Impact and Power in XR, VR and the Metaverse during the 4th Digital Geographies Conference (2025) with Professor Paulo Morgado and Professor Simone Tulumello (2025/11/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/11/08 - 2023/11/10 The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 3rd ed. ICS-ULisboa. 8-10 nov 2023 Imaginaries of inhabitation, or, the future of planetary dwelling 3st edition – 8-10 November 2023 Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), Lisbon
Workshop
 The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies. 3rd ed. ICS-ULisboa. 8-10 nov 2023
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), Lisbon, Portugal
2023/10/05 - 2023/10/05 "Empowering Minors with different perspectives: Promoting environmental Responsability through the Metaverse" On October 5th, a substantial discussion on the metaverse, minors, and environmental education took place with students from the first year of the master's degree in "Analisi di Scenario".
Seminar
 Empowering Minors with different perspectives: Promoting environmental Responsability through the Metaverse
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025/03/01 - Current APAC - Associação Popular de Apoio à Criança (Voluntary collaboration) Specialist in the field of Metaverse and Children for workshops, guidelines, projects and other activities related to the safeguard of children in digital and virtual environments

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/06/16 - 2025/06/27 Participating as a specialist invited for the project "Innovare la valutazione: strategie e strumenti digitali efficaci" Topics: - From the traditional ways of teaching to the Metaverse as an educative tools; - Digital Platforms as educative spaces (introducing Forms, Canva, Kahoot, ClassDojo etc...); - The educative Metaverse (Second Life, Decentraland, Roblox, Minecraft); -Tools for building educative spaces (Roblox Studio - Minecraft Creative Mode).

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/01/08 - 2023/01/08 SIC TV - Interview Metaverse, Social Networks and minors approaching security and threats
Distinctions

Award

2021 Borsa di studio per merito e credito Adisurc Regione Campania
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy
2021 Premio Laurea Magistrale
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy
2020 Borsa di studio per merito e credito Adisurc Regione Campania
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy
2019 Borsa di studio per merito e credito Adisurc Regione Campania
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy
2019 Premio Laurea Triennale
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy
2018 Borsa di studio per merito e credito Intesa San Paolo Onlus
Intesa San Paolo, Onlus, Italy
2017 Borsa di studio per merito e credito Adisurc Regione Campania
Adisurc regione Campania, Italy