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Communication Sciences (Academic Year 2022/2023) - Public Institutions and Digital Media

Sociology of communication.


Credits: 9
Content language:Italian
Course description

The Sociology of Communication course is a basic course to learn necessary skills preliminary professional media and communication. The course describes studies, analyses, theories, paradigms of the sociology of cultural and communicative processes.

Prerequisites

The student must not have specific pre-requisites or preparatory course

Objectives

The Sociology of Communication course aims to provide the basic knowledge about communication’s theories and media to form the profile of a communication professional. During the lessons the student will acquire the skills to understand and analyze communication as a complex social phenomenon: at the end of the course the student will be able to master the basic concepts of the sociology of communication from the theoretical and empirical point of view.

Program

Each lesson analyzes the system of relationships between individuals, society, media and culture and it is dedicated to a key issue of the sociology of communication studies and: concept of communication and information; interpersonal communication; media communication; effects of communication; environments and ecosystems of contemporary communication; media and public research. These issues will be studied through the main theoretical perspectives: Critical Theory, Toronto School, Two-stage communication flow, Uses and gratifications, Cultural & Audience studies.

Book

The OBLIGATORY texts for exam are:

 

G. Gili - F. Colombo, Comunicazione, cultura, società, La Scuola, 2012.

 

L. Mazzoli, Il patchwork mediale. Comunicazione e informazione fra media tradizionali e media digitali, Angeli, Milano 2017.

 

S. Bentivegna, G. Boccia Artieri, Le teorie delle comunicazioni di massa e la sfida digitale, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2019.

 

Exercises

The course is accompanied by:

- Obligatory self-evaluation exercises;

- Optional exercises.

The result of the exercises does not affect neither on the admission requirements for the exam, nor on the final evaluation of the exam; they constitute a tool for the student to test (even independently) his own level of preparation.

Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
Letizia Fazio
List of lessons
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