SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year - Curriculum Curriculum unico / L-40
Teaching Staff
Scientific field: SPS/08 - Sociology of culture and communication
Taught classes: 96 hours
Term / Semester: 1° and 2°
- Evolution and development of communication: Guido Nicolosi
- The essential characteristics of communications: Guido Nicolosi
- Mass-communication theory: Guido Nicolosi
- Mass-communication in Italy: Guido Nicolosi
Scientific field: SPS/08 - Sociology of culture and communication
Taught classes: 96 hours
Term / Semester: 1° and 2°
Detailed Course Content
- Evolution and development of communication
- The press revolution and its context
- Media and public sphere in Europe in the modern age
- Property, dimension and internationalization of media
- Organization and media texts : production, autonomy and power
- Audiences Studies
- The essential characteristics of communications
- Communication : a definition
- Basic processes
- Signs
- Languages
- Images
- Non verbal communication
- Communicationas relation
- Communicationas social practice
- Mediated interaction
- News
- Advertising
- Mass-communication theory
- Magic bullet paradigm
- Selection and limited effects (psychology and sociology)
- Functionalism
- Critical theory
- Cultural studies
- Information and semiotic models
- Communication and knowledge (agenda-setting, etc.)
- Mass-communication in Italy
- The fragility of the Italian media system
- Italian television and social change in the ‘80s
- Welfare State and mass-media
- Migration and media narration
Textbook Information
- Evolution and development of communication
- Briggs A., Burke P., Storia sociale dei media, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, pp. 25 – 127 ; 221 – 315
- Hesmondhalgh, D. (a cura di), Media production, Milano, Hoepli, 2007, pp. 1 – 100
- The essential characteristics of communications
- Priulla, G. , I caratteri elementari della comunicazione, Bari, Laterza
- Mass-communication theory
- Bentivegna, S., Teorie delle comunicazioni di massa, Bari, Laterza
- Mass-communication in Italy
- Mancini, P., Il sistema fragile, Roma, Carocci, pp. 37-107
- Nicolosi, G., Lampedusa. Corpi, immagini e narrazioni dell'immigrazioni, Milano, Franco Angeli