The educational objective of the course is to provide students with theoretical and methodological tools for understanding the cultural processes and consider culture as an important dimension of social action and life.
By the study of Sociology of cultural processes the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives:
- Knowledge of the birth and evolution of the scientific concept of culture, of cultural differentiation in modern societies, of transformation processes, cultural transmission and understanding of how culture influences society and how society influences culture.
- Applying the acquired knowledge to understand the interdependencies of socio-cultural phenomena in the contemporary context:
- Developing a critical reflection and Making judgements on the dynamics of differentiation, cultural pluralization
- Strengthen reflective and communication skills
- Consolidate Learning skills
How to link with other teachings:
General Sociology; Sociology of Communication; Sociology of Religion; Anthropology
By the study of Sociology of cultural processes the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives:
- Knowledge of the birth and evolution of the scientific concept of culture, of cultural differentiation in modern societies, of transformation processes, cultural transmission and understanding of how culture influences society and how society influences culture.
- Applying the acquired knowledge to understand the interdependencies of socio-cultural phenomena in the contemporary context:
- Developing a critical reflection and Making judgements on the dynamics of differentiation, cultural pluralization
- Strengthen reflective and communication skills
- Consolidate Learning skills
How to link with other teachings:
General Sociology; Sociology of Communication; Sociology of Religion; Anthropology
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materiale didattico
Communication and post-truth: the drawbacks of information
The class deals with those learning skills which are fundamental for further studies requiring a high degree of autonomy in the field of sociology media and cultural processes, in the light of digitalization and globalization aided by the advent of consumer and media society. The educational perspective is to highlight the central role played by media in human experience in line with historic and sociological sensitivity, so as to further investigate some interpretative patterns of our reality, such as safety, uncertainty, media hypertrophy, risk, technology, rhetoric, representation, consumption, confidence, memory. While dwelling on the heuristic perspectives of communication research, the sociology of communication deals with some complex media dynamics, at a time also marked by the pandemic and war emergencies. As a result, a substantial deontological and documentary responsibility is imposed on information actors in order to cope with the perception of unsafety and uncertainty. Hence the necessity to impart the requisite media and cultural knowledge to students who are called upon to examine the huge amount of information and contents shaping the digital media-sphere, with particular reference to the tenet of post-truth developed by Lee McIntyre about the drawbacks of connected information.
Program of the class:
• Sociology of media: methodological and theoretical notes
• The risks of connected society and information deontology
• Education and information
• Journalism between mainstream and digital devices
• Post-truth as a epistemological insight
• The drawbacks of disinformation
• Narration, news, education: what kind of democracy?
• Cultures of Inclusion: the challenges of new media
• Lack of transparency and informative mystification
- In case of 6 CFUs curriculum it is compulsory to integrate the aforementioned program with the contents taught by professor Cecilia Costa in the general section of the curriculum (3 CFUs).
Programma
Title of the class:Communication and post-truth: the drawbacks of information
The class deals with those learning skills which are fundamental for further studies requiring a high degree of autonomy in the field of sociology media and cultural processes, in the light of digitalization and globalization aided by the advent of consumer and media society. The educational perspective is to highlight the central role played by media in human experience in line with historic and sociological sensitivity, so as to further investigate some interpretative patterns of our reality, such as safety, uncertainty, media hypertrophy, risk, technology, rhetoric, representation, consumption, confidence, memory. While dwelling on the heuristic perspectives of communication research, the sociology of communication deals with some complex media dynamics, at a time also marked by the pandemic and war emergencies. As a result, a substantial deontological and documentary responsibility is imposed on information actors in order to cope with the perception of unsafety and uncertainty. Hence the necessity to impart the requisite media and cultural knowledge to students who are called upon to examine the huge amount of information and contents shaping the digital media-sphere, with particular reference to the tenet of post-truth developed by Lee McIntyre about the drawbacks of connected information.
Program of the class:
• Sociology of media: methodological and theoretical notes
• The risks of connected society and information deontology
• Education and information
• Journalism between mainstream and digital devices
• Post-truth as a epistemological insight
• The drawbacks of disinformation
• Narration, news, education: what kind of democracy?
• Cultures of Inclusion: the challenges of new media
• Lack of transparency and informative mystification
Testi Adottati
- In case of a 3 CFUs curriculum: Lee McIntyre, Post-verità, The MIT Press, 2018.- In case of 6 CFUs curriculum it is compulsory to integrate the aforementioned program with the contents taught by professor Cecilia Costa in the general section of the curriculum (3 CFUs).
Modalità Frequenza
Free attendance, warmly suggestedModalità Valutazione
Oral exam, evaluated in thirtieths, which aims at verifying the ability to clearly and autonomously outline the topics of the course.