- Docente: Marco Santoro
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 8852)
Course contents
Media and media cultures
What are "new" media? The digital revolution and its myths
Max Weber meets the hacker ethic
The cultural analysis of new media
Key concepts for the sociology of the media: practice, field and capital
Media as practice
Media and rituals
The symbolic power of the media
Media and politics
Media and forms of capital
Readings/Bibliography
N. Couldry, Media, Society, World, Cambridge, Polity 2012.
P. Himanen, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, Vintage, 2001
d. boyd, It's complicated. The social lives of networked teens, New Haven, Yale UP 2014.Teaching methods
Lessons and research exercises
Assessment methods
Oral exam, with the possibility to present a research paper on a topic previously agreed upon
Office hours
See the website of Marco Santoro