PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year - Curriculum Reti, media, comunicazione pubblica e sociale
Teaching Staff: Gabriella Chiarello
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-PSI/05 - Social psychology
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Course Structure

The teaching alternates moments of frontal teaching with laboratory activities in which it is possible to experiment and master the transmitted contents.


Detailed Course Content

THE BUILDING OF THE SOCIAL WORLD - THE COMMON SENSE

  • Social Cognition
  • Social perception and attribution
  • Self-knowledge
  • The need to justify our actions
  • Social representations
  • Attitudes: structure, measurement, functions, training and change strategies
  • The prejudices

EMOTION, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

  • The emotions
  • Language and communication
  • Interpersonal communication

COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, IDENTITY AND NEW MEDIA

  • New media and change
  • New media, action and corporeality: when the medium becomes transparent
  • New media and presence: being in a real and virtual world
  • New media and identity: who am I in new media?
  • New media and relationships: interacting in virtual social networks
  • Selfie. Narcissism and identity

Textbook Information

1 Aronson, E., Wilson, D.T., Sommers, S. R., (2019), Psicologia sociale, il Mulino, Bologna.
2 Amerio, P., (2007), Fondamenti di Psicologia Sociale, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 297-327.
3 Pina Lalli, (1/2000 gennaio-marzo), “Rappresentazioni sociali e senso comune. Due itinerari possibili per lo studio della comunicazione quotidiana”, in Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Il Mulino, pp 53-80.

4 Amerio, P., (2007), Fondamenti di Psicologia Sociale, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 143-181, pp. 229-256

5 Giuseppe Riva, (2012), Psicologia dei nuovi media, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 105 – 256.
6 Giuseppe Riva (2016), Selfie. Narcisismo e identità, il Mulino, Bologna.