The course aims to provide students with both theoretical and methodological tools enabling them to understand and analyze the role played by the media in modern society and in the social, cultural, and institutional transformations occurred over the last decades. By the end of the course, students are expected to have developed a full understanding of the main paradigms developed within different disciplines- with particular reference to sociology – in order to study the media, their languages, and audiences.
teacher profile teaching materials
The second part of the course provides students with the tools for studying media, referring to media reception and the main theoretical perspectives in the sociology of media. A focus will be on forms of symbolic pollution and, in particular, on media images and soundscapes. Finally, the social changes led by digital media in the contemporary society and the medial representations of identities will be considered.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, 2024, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge.
c) Denis McQuail, Mark Deuze, 2020, Media and Mass Communication Theory (chapters 1-2-3-4-5-6)
Mutuazione: 20710041 SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E DEI MEDIA in Scienze della Comunicazione L-20 R A - L LUCHETTI LIA
Programme
The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: verbal and non-verbal communication, interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction.The second part of the course provides students with the tools for studying media, referring to media reception and the main theoretical perspectives in the sociology of media. A focus will be on forms of symbolic pollution and, in particular, on media images and soundscapes. Finally, the social changes led by digital media in the contemporary society and the medial representations of identities will be considered.
Core Documentation
a) Anna Lisa Tota, 2020, Eco-Words. The Ecology of Conversation, Routledge.b) Anna Lisa Tota, 2024, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge.
c) Denis McQuail, Mark Deuze, 2020, Media and Mass Communication Theory (chapters 1-2-3-4-5-6)
Type of delivery of the course
The course is based on traditional lectures and one workshop, not compulsory for the exam, in working-groups.Attendance
Attendance is highly recommended.Type of evaluation
The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.