The course aims to provide a historical knowledge of the birth and evolution of the radio-television communication system, considered in close connection with the economic, social and cultural transformations of the modern age. In this context, attention will be paid to the Italian case by inserting it into the broader European and North American framework.

The teaching is consistent with the objectives of the degree course, which aims to provide a critical knowledge of the interaction between communication processes and cultural, social and political phenomena, which characterize contemporary society, to be understood also from a historical perspective.

The course intends to lead the participants to the acquisition of knowledge necessary to analyze the interaction between the development of the radio-television system and the socio-cultural transformations of modern society, in different national contexts and on the global scenario. Students will thus be able to acquire the necessary skills to decode the radio and television language and to place the history of individual mediums within the more general one of the media system.