Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Ivo Stefano Germano
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities (cod. 8037)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Wellness and Sport Management (cod. 9214)
Learning outcomes
He employs theoretical-empirical skills in the field of journalistic news production, with particular reference to that relating to sport and motor activities. includes the theories of the media, to better decode and recode the social representation of sport conveyed by the old and new means of communication.
Course contents
At the end of the course the student is able to understand and identify changes in the way of communicating sport through personal and organizational communication, mass media and new media, especially social media. Particular attention will be given to the socio-cultural processes that regulate the work of sports journalists and new communication skills in the field of well-being and motor activities. In particular, the student will deepen the widespread feeling of a certain disaffection towards the world of football and of developments in representation in the media.
Readings/Bibliography
Sorrentino C., Studiare giornalismo. Ambiti, logiche, attori, Carocci, Roma, 2013: solo i capitoli 1-8 + cap. 11, pagg. 11-172 + 201-211.(non-attending students will have to integrate with further parts of the volume).
Porro N., Martelli S., Russo G., Il Mondiale delle meraviglie. Calcio, media e società da "Italia'90 a oggi, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2016.
Aroldi P., Germano I.S., Gili G., Il calcio in fuorigioco? Indagine sulla disaffezione del pubblico italiano nei confronti del “sistema calcio”, Focus in Media, Fondazione per la sussidiarietà, 2017.
Teaching methods
Lectures and case studies illustrated with the help of new communication technologies.
Assessment methods
The 2018/2019 sports journalism exam consists of an intermediate written exam (based on open questions on the three texts in the bibliography) and a final written exam scheduled for the last day of lessons, the modalities of which will be illustrated by the teacher during the course. The final evaluation is a weighted average between the grade of the first and second written tests.
Teaching tools
Educational materials available on the Internet, especially on the site of the SportComLab - Sports Communication Laboratory of the "Alma Mater": www.sportcomlab.it. Videoprojections of film productions and ad hoc readings concerning the topics of the course.
Office hours
See the website of Ivo Stefano Germano