The course addresses aspects and themes relating to relevant and rapidly transforming sectors of communication such as information and journalism, providing in-depth knowledge of the dynamics in progress and critical tools for understanding them. The course is dedicated to exploring a wide range of contemporary and future-oriented issues. These include the transformation of information circulation processes and journalism's production practices, the rise of new non-institutional actors in the information system, the advent of new formats and consumption models, the influence of social media and artificial intelligence, and the complex balance between information freedom, independence, pluralism, and the need for regulation to ensure its authority and reliability.
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Monographic part: The talk show: the staging of public debate: formats, rules, protagonists, professions.
The course in Information Systems of Journalism year 24/25 is organized in two parts.
The institutional part addresses the changed relationship between journalism and society and the transformations that have involved the Information System within the new digital ecosystem, focusing both on the regulatory, productive and organizational dimensions of online journalism, with, in particular, the emergence of new non-institutional actors, and on the observation of more sociological variables such as supply and consumption models, journalistic values and the characteristics of the new formats of digital journalism (sites, podcasts, blogs). In this part, the theme of the complex balance between information, independence, pluralism and the need for regulation to guarantee its authoritativeness and reliability will also be addressed.
The monographic part analyses a particular journalistic/television genre: the political talk show. After a part devoted to retracing in a historical key, the diffusion and evolution of the genre in Italy in close relation to the evolution of the political and media scene and to the analysis of its structural and constitutive components, the quantity, quality and trends of the talk show in the current television season will be analyzed.
The monographic part includes:
- meetings with protagonists and professional figures involved in the various stages of the production of a talk show: journalist, set designer, author
- viewing of archive materials
- carrying out research and papers that can tax part of the exam.
Edoardo Novelli, La democrazia del talk-show, Carocci Roma 2016
Programme
INFORMATION AND JOURNALISM SYSTEMS 2024/25Monographic part: The talk show: the staging of public debate: formats, rules, protagonists, professions.
The course in Information Systems of Journalism year 24/25 is organized in two parts.
The institutional part addresses the changed relationship between journalism and society and the transformations that have involved the Information System within the new digital ecosystem, focusing both on the regulatory, productive and organizational dimensions of online journalism, with, in particular, the emergence of new non-institutional actors, and on the observation of more sociological variables such as supply and consumption models, journalistic values and the characteristics of the new formats of digital journalism (sites, podcasts, blogs). In this part, the theme of the complex balance between information, independence, pluralism and the need for regulation to guarantee its authoritativeness and reliability will also be addressed.
The monographic part analyses a particular journalistic/television genre: the political talk show. After a part devoted to retracing in a historical key, the diffusion and evolution of the genre in Italy in close relation to the evolution of the political and media scene and to the analysis of its structural and constitutive components, the quantity, quality and trends of the talk show in the current television season will be analyzed.
The monographic part includes:
- meetings with protagonists and professional figures involved in the various stages of the production of a talk show: journalist, set designer, author
- viewing of archive materials
- carrying out research and papers that can tax part of the exam.
Core Documentation
Luca Serafini, Il giornalismo digitale, Carocci Roma 2024.Edoardo Novelli, La democrazia del talk-show, Carocci Roma 2016
Type of evaluation
Written exam with open-ended questions. Knowledge of the course topics, clarity of presentation, and ability to analyze and contextualize the various topics will be assessed.