- Docente: Patrizia Faccioli
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mass media and politics (cod. 8051)
Learning outcomes
The course has double purpose: on one side to analyse how media face up to the topic of deviance and criminality, focusing on the theories and research works on the media effects. On the other side to analyse how the social advertising spread social messages with the aim to promote positive behaviours.
Course contents
The course is divided in two parts:
The history of human communication and technological development is the topic of the first part of the course. Then, we'll give a specific attention to the literature on the media effects, which found a complex and multidisciplinary body of knowledge, merging into the concept of “mediated reality”.
In the second part the media production process will be analysed. Finally, the topic will be the way in which the mass media covered some criminal events
Readings/Bibliography
1) Bentivegna S, Teorie delle comunicazioni di massa, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 (for all students)
2) Polesana M. A., Criminality Show. La costruzione mediatica del colpevole, Carocci, Roma 2010 (for CAPIS students only)
3) Gili G., La violenza televisiva, Carocci, Roma 2006 (cap. 4 e 5). (For CAPIS students only)
4) Perissinotto A. , La società dell'indagine, Bompiani, Milano 2008 (For CAPIS students only)
5) Hesmondalgh D., Media Production, Hoepli, Milano 2007 (For students MMP students only)
Teaching methods
Lectures by the teacher.
Assessment methods
Final oral examination on the different texts. Midterm exams could be done.
Teaching tools
Overhead, PC, video-recorder.
Office hours
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