- Docente: Lorenza Gattamorta
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Lorenza Gattamorta (Modulo 1) Lorenza Gattamorta (Modulo 2) (Modulo 3)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mass media and politics (cod. 8051)
Course contents
The course will investigate the principal models for interpreting globalization, with particular reference to the theories on culture as a global phenomenon and to the cultural dynamics of globalization. Attention will focus on the following topics:
(i) the theoretical debate on globalization and on the end of globalization (the history of globalization; the reconfiguration of political power; the globalization/anti-globalization debate; the political controversy over globalization); (ii) the theoretical debate over cultural globalization (cultural identity in the globalized world; the destiny of national culture; the cultural dynamics of globalization; (iii) the debate on the role of the media in globalization (the role of communication technologies in cultural globalization; new forms of communication in the dialectic of power and counter-power; the global media and communication policies).
Readings/Bibliography
Section 1
D. Held, A. McGrew, Globalismo e antiglobalismo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2010 (Introduction, Chapters 7 e 9).
U. Beck, The Cosmopolitan Condition. Why Methodological Mationalism Fails, in «Theory, Culture & Society», 24, 2007, pp. 286-290.
Peter L. Berger, Le dinamiche culturali della globalizzazione, in «Quaderni di Teoria Sociale», 5, 2005, pp. 321-337.
J. Nederveen Pieterse, Globalizzazione e culture: tre paradigmi, in Mélange globale. Ibridazioni e diversità culturali, Carocci, Roma, 2005, pp. 59-76.
S. Benhabib, La rivendicazione dell'identità culturale. Eguaglianza e diversità nell'era globale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2005, pp. 17-75 (Introduzione. Uso e abuso della cultura; Cap. I: "Nous et les autres").
G. Crowder, Theories of Multiculturalism, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2013 (Chapter 1).
V. Cotesta, La natura del pregiudizio (Cap. 15); Le radici umane del pregiudizio (cap. 16); Comunicazione, pregiudizio e razzismo (cap. 17), in Sociologia dei conflitti etnici. Razzismo, immigrazione e società multiculturale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, new enlarged edition 2009.
M. Castells, Reti di indignazione e speranza. Movimenti sociali nell'era di internet, Egea, Milano, 2015, pp. XXI-XXXVII; pp. 11-30 (Island).
Section 2
M. Castells, Reti di indignazione e speranza. Movimenti sociali nell'era di internet, Egea, Milano, 2015, pp. 1-11; pp. 87-128; pp. 129-182.
F.L.F. Lee, J. Man Chan, Digital Media Activies and Mode of Participation in a Protest Campaign. A Study of the Umbrella Movement, in «Information, Communication & Society», 19, 1, pp. 4-22.
G. Ritzer, S. Miles, The Changing Nature of Consumption and the Intensification of McDonaldization in the Digital Age, in «Journal of Consumer Culture», 1, 2018, pp. 3-20.
V. Campanelli, Infowar. La battaglia per il controllo e la libertà della rete, Egea, Milano, 2013.
J. van Dijck, T. Poell, M. de Waal, Platform society. Valori pubblici e società connessa, Milano, Guerini Scientifica, 2019.Teaching methods
Traditional lectures (Section 1) and seminars (Section 2).
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