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ANTHROPOLOGY AND SPORTS COMMUNICATION

CODE 101736
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021
CREDITS
  • 6 cfu during the 1st year of 8769 INFORMAZIONE ED EDITORIA (LM-19) - GENOVA
    		•
    SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-DEA/01
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
    		•
    SEMESTER 2° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    The course aims to observe sport as a total social fact. Sport seen as an essential element of culture and therefore analyzed with an anthropological perspective. Actions, narrations, visions, ways of communicating, languages ​​can be observed with a "thick analysis” (Geertz), able to reveal the functioning of the society in question.

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The course aims to observe sport as a total social fact. Sport seen as an essential element of culture and therefore analyzed with an anthropological perspective. Actions, narrations, visions, ways of communicating, languages can be observed with a "thick analysis” (Geertz), able to reveal the functioning of the society in question.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The aim of the course is to provide students with the tools to address and investigate various aspects of sports communication, starting from an anthropological perspective. Topics such as the narration of the sporting event will be discussed; football as a "total social fact"; sport as a factor in creating and changing national identities; the cultural hybridization that generates new landscapes.

    TEACHING METHODS

    Lectures, with multimedia exercises on topics chosen by the student

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Anthropology and sport

    Sport as a total social fact

    Football and national identities

    A history of sports journalism

    Narrators or journalists?

    Digital techniques and new panoramas

    Sport and culture, today

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    -Currò E., Mario Fossati e la storia del giornalismo sportivo in Italia (1945-2010), Bolis, Azzano San Paolo (Bg), 2018

    -Barba B., Calciologia. Per un'Antropologia del football, Mimesis, Milano, 2016

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (President)

    MARCO AIME

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    Second semester

    Class schedule

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    Oral examination 

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    At the end of the course the student must be able to describe how the anthropological perspective contributes to the analysis of the sporting event; to critically examine the role of journalists as tools for disseminating knowledge; to create original hypotheses about the future of sports communication, in the light of new techniques, new perspectives, new hybridization factors.

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    20/01/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale
    10/02/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale
    26/05/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale
    16/06/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale
    14/07/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale
    10/09/2021 09:00 GENOVA Orale