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81878 - Digital Media and Gender

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Saveria Capecchi
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        SPS/08
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Saveria Capecchi
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Marzia Vaccari
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
                                
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Media, Public and Corporate Communication (cod. 5703)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the role that women have played in Information and Communication Technology and particularly in Internet Studies fields. He/she knows the debates on "women and the web" (gender digital divide, Internet Governance, gender stereotypes and feminism on/of the web). He/she knows how to plan and carry out research projects on women's communities. He/she knows different types of business models.

Course contents

The course focuses the attention on the relationship between gender and digital media, tackling both gender inequalities and user's opportunities to challenge the patriarchal system.

The course is divided in two teaching modules.

1. During the first part of the course we will explore the concept of gender and its implications in media and Internet studies.

2. In the second part of the course we will tackle the feminist approaches to the Internet and analyze some cases of female web entrepreneurs subverting patriarchal ideology.

Readings/Bibliography

Essential reading list:

Saveria Capecchi (2018) "La comunicazione di genere. Prospettive teoriche e buone pratiche", Carocci, Roma.

- Manolo Farci-Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (2022) (a cura di), Media digitali, genere e sessualità, paragrafi: 5,9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18.

- Marzia Vaccari (2019), Appunti di femminismo digitale #1 Amazon Kindle editions

- Marzia Vaccari (2021), Appunti di femminismo digitale #2 Algoritmi, Amazon Kindle editions

Recommended bibliography:

Gender, Raewyn Connell (2009, trad. it. "Questioni di genere", il Mulino, Bologna 2011, 2° ed.)
Le filosofie femministe, Adriana Cavarero e Franco Restaino (Mondadori, 2002)
Gender and the media, Rosalind Gill (Polity, 2007)
New Femininities, edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Lo schermo del potere. Femminismo e regime della visibilità, Alessandra Gribaldo e Giovanna Zapperi (Ombre corte 2012)
Tutt’altro genere d’informazione coordinamento scientifico a cura di Monia Azzalini(2015, reperibile online)
Relazioni brutali. Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Elisa Giomi e Sveva Magaraggia (il Mulino, 2017)
Visioni del femminile a cura di Cristina Demaria e Roberta Sassatelli (“Studi culturali”, 3/2013)
Questioni di genere nel giornalismo italiano a cura di Milly Buonanno (“Problemi dell’informazione”, 3/2015)
Il prisma dei generi. Immagini di donne in tv, a cura di Milly Buonanno (Franco Angeli, 2014)
Genere e media: non solo immagini, a cura di Milly Buonanno e Franca Faccioli (Franco Angeli, 2020)
L'amore non uccide. Femminicidio e discorso pubblico: cronaca, tribunali, politiche, a cura di Pina Lalli (il Mulino, 2020).

Teaching methods

Lectures, case studies, seminars.

Assessment methods

International students: an essay (in English, French or Spanish) of 4.000 words on a topic of your choice within the ones tackled during the course. You will have to discuss your research in class, with a short power point presentation.

Teaching tools

Power point slides, videos.

Office hours

See the website of Saveria Capecchi

See the website of Marzia Vaccari