93545 - Communication Laboratory (Lm) (G.F)

Learning outcomes

The laboratory aims to offer students skills in the field of production of journalistic and media content (television, radio and internet). At the end of the course the student: - masters the main techniques of producing information and media content - is able to independently produce information content in written, oral or multimedia form

Course contents

Knowing how to construct and deconstruct global and local communication content on themes universally recognized as foundational to society and in experiences capable of dividing, generating dissent and plurality, with a critical and transversal vision, centered on the ability of "words" to forge cultural, political and institutional, is and will increasingly be an asset in the labor market linked to the operation of the media, communication and information. Every year the laboratory chooses a theme, a concept, and observes it in the ways in which it becomes policy discourse, in international networks, in official offices, in the debate that has an impact on choices. This year the theme chosen - within the range of SDG objectives - is that of inclusiveness. The participants carry out a journey of critical analysis and awareness - or simulation - of the way in which inclusiveness is talked about in international forums, how it is measured, how it is transmitted with words to the global community.

Readings/Bibliography

The laboratory makes use of a bibliography provided at each session and reference materials in video and audio format whose sources are both the teacher and international organizations.

Teaching methods

DDI's activities include the possibility of following online sessions of international forums - such as UNESCO and OECD - which deal with the ESG theme that has been chosen for the year 2024-25 (the theme may have variations in subsequent years) in order to Using the grid provided in class, identify the connotations and focuses of a communicative nature that distinguish both the policy discourse and the various actors. Furthermore, it is envisaged that the simulation of an argumentative game will be carried out as an additional activity with the participation of an international profile discussant who is a high level expert for the chosen topic.

The integration of the teaching method through the Virtual platform will take place through the sharing of multimedia contents that arise from the video recording of discussion and/or policy design sessions of international fora with particular attention for this year to the theme of inclusiveness as a key theme in the implementation of Agenda 2030. By working on the semantics that are mobilized by policy makers and high level experts from different countries / regions / and the students gradually develop a critical epistemological posture that allows them to build virtual contents simulating an international discussion session in order to bring out the critical issues and potential that are connected with communicative and linguistic-semantic choices (framing effect). The result of this simulation exercise will then be the subject of a discussion with a discussant of an international institutional profile through Teams.

Assessment methods

Participation in training activities

Mastery of the communicative semantics Agenda 2030.

Ability to critically evaluate international communication policies

Teaching tools

Virtuale

Teams

Office hours

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