07297 - Sociology of Communication

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Pina Lalli
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: SPS/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Oriental History and Civilisations (cod. 0963)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 0960)

Learning outcomes

Students learns basic tools to analyse the different form of contemporary communication (interpernal and face-to-face communication, media communication, new social media).

Course contents

- Social theories and models on communication
- Communication and interaction in the everyday lifle: interpersonal and mediated communication
- Social forms of communication and technological developments: from oral societies to digital societies
- Media, new media and interaction
- Case analysis of several forms of contemporary communication

Readings/Bibliography

12 ECTS


6 or 5 ECTS:
10 ECTS:

Teaching methods

Lectures and discussion

Assessment methods

Written exam with open questions, at the end of the lectures (about the end of May 2013)

(Only for attending students some changes will be communicated in class).

Teaching tools

Power points and video projection
Other on line materials

Office hours

See the website of Pina Lalli