31664 - Media, Conflicts and International Politics

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)

Course contents

The course will present strategies and tools adopted by all the actors performing on the international arena in order to cope with media pressures. New technology and web 2.0 impacts on Public Diplomacy and Journalism will be analyzed in order to show how established balances of power are jeopardized by the current international media ecology.

The course will be organized in three segments:

1.      Global media and international politics

2.      Media and Diplomacy

3.      Media and Conflicts

Readings/Bibliography

- Programma studenti frequentanti:

TUTTI GLI ARGOMENTI TRATTATI A LEZIONE E I MATERIALI DISCUSSI, inoltre i seguenti testi:

“Twitter Factor”, Valeriani, A., Laterza 2011.

“Media e guerra. Visioni Postmoderne”, Hammond, P., Odoya 2008

“Guerra e Mass Media”, De  Angelis, E., Carocci 2007

“Il paradosso del potere americano” Nye, J. Einaudi 2002

 

- Programma studenti non-frequentanti:

“Twitter Factor” , Valeriani A., Laterza 2011

“Global communications, international affairs and the media since 1945” Taylor, P. M., Routledge 1997

“Il giornalismo, che cos'è e come funziona” Sorrentino, C., Carocci.

“Il paradosso del potere americano” Nye, J. Einaudi 2002

“Media e guerra. Visioni Postmoderne”, Hammond, P. Odoya 2008

“Guerra e Mass Media”, De  Angelis, E., Carocci 2007

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Final oral exam

Teaching tools

PC

Office hours

See the website of Augusto Valeriani