Unit Internet-based Communication Strategies

Course
Public, digital and corporate communication
Study-unit Code
GP003288
Curriculum
Media digitali
Teacher
Luca Garosi
Teachers
  • Luca Garosi
Hours
  • 42 ore - Luca Garosi
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline della comunicazione pubblica e d'impresa
Academic discipline
SPS/08
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course will provide - in the first part - some basic tools for those who want to make strategies online. Free or freemium tools for creating content on the net will be presented. In the second part of the course some tools such as CMS will be deepened. Above all we will analyze the use of WordPress. The third part is dedicated to the strategic aspects of communication, to the relationship between it and marketing, to the use of social media. Finally, in the special part, students will be asked to create an online communication plan for an innovative platform in the Umbrian territory.
Reference texts
For the attending students:
Garosi L., Comunicare (bene) in rete, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2017
Lecture notes - edited by the teacher - with current and scientific articles on the course topics

For not attending students:
Garosi L., Comunicare (bene) in rete, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2017
Garosi L., Green Branding, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2018
AAvv, Sistema Audio-suono, Rai Libri, Roma, 2022
Lecture notes - edited by the teacher - with current and scientific articles on the course topics.
Educational objectives
At the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to create multimedia content (text, audio, video, photos); he will be able to place them within the "right" social network according to the chosen online communication strategy.

In addition, he will be able to manage communication campaigns for customers and for himself.

He will come into contact with new professional figures linked to the world of digitalization.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching methods
Theoretical lessons and technical-practical exercises. Attending students will also carry out project work by working in groups.

Some seminars with online communication professionals are planned.
Other information
During the first semester, the teacher receives in person - by appointment - on Thursdays from 11 to 13.

To get an appointment write to luca.garosi@unipg.it
Learning verification modality
The course includes - for those who attend - some intermediate tests, the methods of which will be communicated by the teacher in class. However, there is a final interview on a topic chosen by the student which will be presented in a written essay.

For those who do not attend, there will be a written test (with open-ended questions) and an oral interview
Extended program
First part - The Network
• Characteristics of web communication: hypertextuality, multimedia and interactivity
• Communication and Web 2.0
• Innovation and the Network (blockchain; IoT; omnichannel; etc.)

Second part - Contents for the Net
• Write for the web; web-specific titling elements; writing and titling exercises
• The creation of content in graphic form: free tools for infographics
• Pictures
• The videos
• The audios

Third part - The tools for the Net
• The main CMS (Content Management System): WordPress, Joomla and Drupal
• The blog
• Fact checking tools

Fourth part - The strategies on the Net
• Communication and Marketing: affinities and differences
• Communication that helps Marketing: social media marketing, inbound marketing, content marketing, influencer marketing
• Personal branding: techniques and strategies to promote yourself on the Net
• Brand Awareness: techniques and strategies to promote the brand on the Internet
• Events and online communication: theories and techniques compared
• Working through the Internet: the main professional profiles related to online communication

Special part - Participation in the "Young Journalists for Europe" project
Students, both individually and in small groups, will be involved in the communication campaign linked to the "Young Journalists for Europe" project. They will have to write articles for the website www.giovanigiornalistiperleuropa.eu and “animate” the social networks of the project by applying a communication strategy agreed with the teacher.

NB: For non-attending students, the special part is replaced by the study of texts on eco-sustainable communication and on the connection between audio and internet (see Reference Texts section).
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