B1888 - Sports, Media, History (1)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to historically retrace the evolution of sports communication from the end of the 19th century to today with a global gaze and at the same time with particular attention to the analysis, from a comparative perspective, of the Italian context .The student: - masters the methodologies of analysis of the history of communication and journalism as well as the specificities of the sporting phenomenon; - knows in depth the evolution of the mass media and sports communication from the end of the nineteenth century to today; - will be able to analyze the effects that the development of the media system has produced and continues to produce on the evolution of individual sports and the sports system as a whole; - will know how to apply the knowledge acquired to the analysis of contemporary communication processes; - will be able to analyze the transformations that the mass media have generated in the political, cultural and social reading of the sporting phenomenon over the course of the contemporary age.

Course contents

The course aims to analyse the birth and development of modern sports from a historical perspective from its origins to the present day, with a closer (but not exclusive) look at Italian and European events.

In doing so, great attention will be paid to the role played by the different media in accompanying and shaping the evolution of the sports phenomenon. The focus will therefore be on the role played by the press, first, and then by radio, cinema and television, not only in narrating sport but also in transforming it.

In the concluding lectures, this path will be concluded by analysing how in recent decades the neo-liberal and digital turning points have profoundly transformed the sports phenomenon, projecting it into a post-modern dimension.

Readings/Bibliography

P. Dietschy e S. Pivato, Storia dello sport in Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

 

For not attending student only. One among:

- Saverio Battente e Tito Menzani, Storia sociale della pallacanestro in Italia, Lacaita, 2009.

- Sergio Giuntini, Storia agonistica, sociale e politica dell'atletica leggera italiana, Aracne, 2017

- Daniele Serapiglia, Uno sport per tutti. Storia sociale della pallavolo italiana (1918-1990), Clueb, 2018.

- Elvis Lucchese, Pionieri. Le origini del rugby in Italia. 1910-1945, Piazza, 2024

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

See the website of Nicola Sbetti