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Communication Sciences (Academic Year 2022/2023) - Digital Corporate Communication

Corporate communication in the Digital World


Credits: 8
Content language:Italian
Course description

The course deals with the issue of corporate communication from a theoretical as well as from a practical perspective, analyzing the main theoretical concepts needed to understand the evolution of organizational cultures and models, the development of corporate communication policies and the human resources management ones in the Italian and international background. After having supplied basic notions on communication patterns and the relative planning modes, the course will explain how to use them in a coordinated and synergic way in order to meet the main corporate communication needs: institutional, financial, organizational and marketing ones.

In addition, special attention will be devoted to the analysis of the new operational tools of corporate communication: concertation of communication, communication mix and involvement of the stakeholders; public relations, brand name and brand visibility; Internet, e-commerce and digital languages; product, packaging and stores; social responsibility policies, actions and programs.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are requested.

 

Objectives

The course objective is that of supplying basic theoretical and practical tools for a correct and effective management of corporate communication in the sector of digital media. More specifically, the course is aimed at analyzing the main practices and strategies for developing an integrate communication plan, capable to spread the brand in the field of multi-device/multi-screen communication.

Program

The course will deal with the following issues.
 

The videolessons will deal with the following issues:

Introduction to corporate communication and to the areas of corporate communication: institutional, economic-financial, organizational and marketing communication

Communication tools: owned, earned & paid media

The communication features of sponsorships and how to assess a sponsorship proposal

Digital corporate and brand architecture

The process of realization of an advertising campaign

Owned media: website, social properties, store and vendors, packaging, etc.: some cases

Earned media: PR and relations with the (off & online) press and opinion makers: some cases

Paid media: Advertising ATL and BTL, direct response, events, sponsorships, product placement and branded content: some cases

The communication plan: strategies and examples

Storytelling and corporate arena: the story and collective action for organization change

The communication target (the personas): some cases

Book
Testo d’esame (obbligatorio): Maria Pia Favaretto (2020), La strategia di comunicazione nell’era post-digitale, Libreria Universitaria
Exercises

All the envisaged exercises (self-assessment tests, analyses of institutional campaigns, discussion of case studies) will allow the student to apply the theoretical and practical tools analyzed during the lessons.

 

Professor
Omar Vulpinari
Video professors
Prof. Maria Luisa Bionda - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano - Italy)
List of lessons
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