Unit JOURNALISM HISTORY
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- GP000200
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Possieri
- Teachers
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- Andrea Possieri
- Hours
- 63 ore - Andrea Possieri
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline sociali e mediologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- After several introductory lessons, this course will focus on the analytical categories necessary to understand and to answer the fundamental questions posed by XIXth - XXth century, from an italian and international perspective.
- Reference texts
- 1. M. Forno, Informazione e potere. Storia del giornalismo italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2023.
2. I. Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Carocci, 2022.
3. P. Allotti, La libertà di stampa. Dal XVI a oggi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020. - Educational objectives
- The student will master the most important historical-political episodes in the current debate on the Italian journalism and compare it to other international media systems.
- Prerequisites
- Previous knowledge of XIXth and XXth century history is required.
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lessons, seminars, dvd projections, tests.
- Other information
- There will be some conferences.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is for an intermediate written test and an oral exam at the end of the course.
- Extended program
- Lessons will focus on the analytical categories necessary to understand and to answer the fundamental questions posed by XIXth - XXth century, from an italian and international perspective. In particular, the course is articulated upon the following topics: historical profile of Italian journalism on the XIX Century and the first Italian national newspapers; general press and opinion press; political press and party newspapers; the experience of World War I; press, fascism and the organization of consensus; press and radio during World War II; freedom of the press
and the establishment of Rai television in Italy; journalism and the vietnam war; the watergate case; the fall of the monopoly system and the age of Silvio Berlusconi; profiles of the most important Italian newspapers and journalists on the XXth – XXI century; journalism and the internet.