Unit THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF MASS COMMUNICATION
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 40323
- Curriculum
- Scienze politiche
- Teacher
- Marco Mazzoni
- Teachers
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- Marco Mazzoni
- Hours
- 63 ore - Marco Mazzoni
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- General introduction the main theories of mass communication.The evolution of mass media between first and second Republic.
- Reference texts
- S. Bentivegna, G. Boccia Artieri (2019), Le teorie delle comunicazioni di massa e la sfida digitale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
From Unistudium:
La nascita dei mezzi di comunicazione di Massa (dal libro di Denis McQuail, Sociologia dei media, il Mulino, 2007)
I media e lo sviluppo delle società moderne (dal libro di John B. Thompson, Mezzi di comunicazione e modernità, il Mulino, 1998)
Another reading will be communicated during the course. - Educational objectives
- Students will get a basic knwoledge of the main theories on mass communication that they may use for later specific, developments
- Prerequisites
- Students will learn the main features of the Italian media system.
- Teaching methods
- Lessonos by the teacher and seminar discussions
- Other information
- It recommends the reading of a newspaper.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral discussion
- Extended program
- First part:
Society and mass media.
Second part:
Origin and development of communication research.
Part three:
Critical theory and cultural studies.
Part Four:
Media, new media and social construction of reality.