Communication and Media Ethics deals with the moral issues concerning communication both from a theoretical and an applicative point of view. Through the critical reading of classical texts and the analysis of particular issues and / or cases, it aims to develop specific ethical skills.
The course aims at clarifying the moral implications of communication, through the analysis of various theories and models of communication from Aristotle to the contemporary debate. In the application field, students study the problems and the rules of communication in the media, in the institutions, in the medical relationship, in advertising, in cultural mediation, in the company, in working groups, through the analysis of deontological codes, protocols, lines -guides and special case-studies.
1. Knowledge: the relationship between ethics and communication ethics; the main models of communication ethics; ethics and professional deontology. 2. Capabilities: ability to analyze significant cases from an ethical point of view and to find solutions to ethical dilemmas in the communication. 3. Skills: in the laboratory activity: organizing a group work; design of a ppt presentation; advertising a workshop.
Know the development of the mass media. Have attention to the problems of information and communication. Take an interest in ethical and deontological issues.
In the first part of the course the professor will give theoretical lectures. The second part will have a seminar organization. Some dilemmatic issues of communication ethics will be proposed and analyzed in a laboratory form. Group workshops will be organized on individual cases of applied ethics. For the students who will participate in the workshops, also through AulaWeb, it will be possible to replace part of the oral exam with the discussion of a paper or a presentation, whose title is to be agreed with the teacher. Students are invited to register in Aulaweb: Communication ethics.
Seminar works and distance support activities, for students who can not regularly attend classes, are organized in Aulaweb.
Tools: PC with Video projector, Internet, DVD, AulaWeb.
The course is focused on "identity and communication". The syllabus is divided into three phases in which 1. we will present the theories and models of communication and communication ethics; 2. we will discuss the construction of the rhetoric of personal and collective identity, physical and virtual. 3. we will investigate how the "identity" and the we / they dichotomy are used in different contexts (journalism and photojournalism, public communication, social communication, advertising, fiction and web).
The reading list for this course, together with the lecturer's suggestions and instructions are available on the Italian version of the web page.
Ricevimento: Tuesday 3-5 PM Thursday 12 AM-2 PM DAFIST - Via Balbi 30/24 - 7th floor
MIRELLA PASINI (President)
ALBERTO GIORDANO
VALERIA OTTONELLI
DANIELE ROLANDO
Lessons start on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at noon.
Students assessment includes the evaluation of the active participation in the lessons, the evaluation of participation in the laboratories and the report and / or ppt in the workshop. All students are required to produce a written report on one of the essays collected in The Handbook of Communication Ethics, Routledge, NY 2011 before the oral examination. The Evaluation ends with the oral exam.
1. Acquired knowledge is ascertained through the written report and in the oral exam. 2. The competences, also expressive and linguistic, will be verified in the report and in the oral discussion. 3. Skills will be verified in the presentation and in the workshop (as a midterm test).
