OVERVIEW

The course aims to provide basic backgrounds of media history from its origins to today, through the analysis of media - but also of communication - in contemporary times, in the course of historical cracks (wars, emigration, etc.)

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at providing knowledge and interpretative tools on the role played by the mass communication media in the dynamic of social history.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will have to acquire adequate knowledge and effective understanding of the main issues of contemporary age, analyzed through media development

TEACHING METHODS

Front lessons, using multimedia media. Laboratory lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

discussion of the issues related to the use of communication tools, especially during some major events such as the Great War, Migrations etc. Attention will also be reserved to the use of media as a propaganda tool of Fascism

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Briggs, P. Burke, Storia sociale dei media. Da Gutemberg a Internet, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

F. Caffarena, Scritture non comuni. Una fonte per la storia contemporanea, Unicopli, Milano, 2016

And one of these texts:

C. Chéroux, Diplopia. L'immagine fotografica nell'era dei media globalizzati: saggio sull'11 settembre 2001, Torino, Einaudi, 2010

E. De Angelis, Guerra e mass media, Carocci, Roma, 2007

and for those who do not attend lessons:

A. Briggs, P. Burke, Storia sociale dei media. Da Gutemberg a Internet, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

C. Chéroux, Diplopia. L'immagine fotografica nell'era dei media globalizzati: saggio sull'11 settembre 2001, Torino, Einaudi, 2010

F. Caffarena, Scritture non comuni. Una fonte per la storia contemporanea, Unicopli, Milano, 2016

E. De Angelis, Guerra e mass media, Carocci, Roma, 2007

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FABIO CAFFARENA (President)

AUGUSTA MOLINARI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

February 2018

Class schedule

SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MEDIA

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral (

Intermediate written tests)

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam is aimed at ensuring that the content of the course is acquired in a critical and non-mnemonic manner, so that a non-mnemonic examination type is preferred, but based on the ability to link the various topics discussed

Exam schedule