This course provides students with an overview on formats, storytelling and production forms of contemporary radio and television broadcasting, now almost entirely digitized, in a mediascape characterized by a vast offer of audiovisual contents on various platforms, with several delivery patterns. Contemporary broadcasting is characterized by a large amount of audiovisual contents proposed (pay o for free) to the audiences, available on a wide range of devices (TV screens, tablets, outdoor), both domestic and mobile. The audiovisual contents proposed by broadcasting media are also challenged by grassroots contents production and delivery through social networks, YouTube, web radio and TV stations.
teacher profile teaching materials
- E. Menduni, Televisione e radio nel XXI secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016
- E. Menduni, Il mondo della radio. Dal transistor ai social network. Seconda edizione riveduta, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012 (cover with purple belt, not red belt).
Programme
The course is splitted into two parts. The first is dedicated to addressing the basics to frame the radio and television languages from a theoretical point of view: schedule, format, genre(s), serial narratives, audience. The second part focuses on the recent history of the two media, from the late Seventies up to the contemporary situation, looking at the main evolutions of the genres and at the present national offer.Core Documentation
Books- E. Menduni, Televisione e radio nel XXI secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016
- E. Menduni, Il mondo della radio. Dal transistor ai social network. Seconda edizione riveduta, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012 (cover with purple belt, not red belt).
Type of delivery of the course
frontal teaching and visit to radio and TV studiosAttendance
Optional attendanceType of evaluation
The test is written. Students will be asked to write three short essays (1 page each) on the proposed themes. To pass the exam students have to answer three questions.