Unit POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
- Course
- Public, digital and corporate communication
- Study-unit Code
- GP003658
- Curriculum
- Media digitali
- Teacher
- Rita Marchetti
- Teachers
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- Rita Marchetti
- Hours
- 63 ore - Rita Marchetti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- 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 first module focuses on the main features of the Italian media and political systems compared with those of other Western countries.
The second module critically debates three models of journalism over 15 years after publication of Hallin and Mancini’s “Comparing Media Systems”. - Reference texts
- Hallin D., Mancini P. (2004), Modelli di giornalismo. Mass media e politica nelle democrazie occidentali, Il Mulino, Bologna.
A journal article to be chosen among the following:
1.Brüggemann M., Engesser S., Büchel F., Humprecht E., Castro L. (2014). Hallin and Mancini Revisited: Four Empirical Types of Western Media Systems, Journal of Communication, 64(6), 1037–1065.
2. Humprecht, E., Castro Herrero, L., Blassnig, S., Brüggemann, M., & Engesser, S. (2022). Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries, Journal of Communication, 72(2), 145-164.
3. Hallin D. & Mancini P. (2017). Ten Years After Comparing Media Systems: What Have We Learned?, Political Communication, 34(2), 155-171.
4. Herrero L.C., Humprecht E., Engesser S., Brüggemann M., Büchel F. (2017). Rethinking Hallin and Mancini Beyond the West: An Analysis of Media Systems in Central and Eastern Europe. International Journal of Communication, 11, 4797-4823.
5. Mancini, P. (2020). Comparing Media Systems and the Digital Age. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5761–5774.
6. Mattoni A., & Ceccobelli D. (2018). Comparing hybrid media systems in the digital age: A theoretical framework for analysis. European Journal of Communication, 33(5), 540–558.
7. Norris P. (2009). Comparative Political Communications: Common Frameworks or Babelian Confusion?, Government and Opposition.
8. Nechushtai, E. (2018). From liberal to polarized liberal? Contemporary US news in Hallin and Mancini’s typology of news systems, The International Journal of Press/Politics, 23(2), 183-201.
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Students not attending the class will contact the professor. - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to describe the main features of mass media system in relation to political system and how these features can affect the communication tools in the field of political communication.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand the functioning of mass media system and how to apply most of the technical issues relating to political communication, it is important to know the process of decision-making.
- Teaching methods
- Three lessons per weeks.
Frontal lessons, work group and discussion in the classroom. - Other information
- Daily reading of a newspaper (print or news website) is recommended.
Attendance is strongly recommended. - Learning verification modality
- Oral examination. The oral exam lasts about 30 minutes. In order to understand howstudents learn and what they know, the oral exam is essential, in particular to evaluate the level of knowledge reached by the students on the theoretical and methodological implications mentioned during the course. The oral exam will also test the communication skills of the student with particular attention to compliance with the rules of public speaking.
Facilities for special needs students:
http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- I Module
Comparing Media Systems
The political context of Media Systems
Three Models of Journalism
II Module
Fifteen years after “Comparing Media Systems”