31664 - Media, Conflicts and International Politics

Academic Year 2015/2016

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

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mass media and politics (cod. 8051)

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 modules:

1.      Global media and international politics

2.      Media and Diplomacy

3.      Media and Conflicts

Readings/Bibliography

Readings for attending students:

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

“Media e guerra. Visioni Postmoderne”, Hammond, P., Odoya 2008 or "Strategic narratives: communication power and the new world order" Miskimmon, A., O'Loughlin, B., & Roselle, L. Routledge 2014.

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

"Soft Power. Un nuovo futuro per l'America” Nye, J. Einaudi 2005

 

Readings for non-attending students:

“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.

"Soft Power. Un nuovo futuro per l'America” Nye, J. Einaudi 2005

“Media e guerra. Visioni Postmoderne”, Hammond, P. Odoya 2008 or "Strategic narratives: communication power and the new world order" Miskimmon, A., O'Loughlin, B., & Roselle, L. Routledge 2014.

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

Teaching methods

Taught classes

Assessment methods

Final oral exam

Teaching tools

Powerpoint slideshows, audiovisual documents

Office hours

See the website of Augusto Valeriani