CODE 101736 ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 1 INFORMAZIONE ED EDITORIA 8769 (LM-19) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-DEA/01 LANGUAGE Italian 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 -Barba B., Il corpo, il rito, il mito. Un'antropologia dello sport, Einaudi, Torino, 2021. -Currò E., Mario Fossati e la storia del giornalismo sportivo in Italia (1945-2010), Bolis, Azzano San Paolo (Bg), 2018. Further advice on bibliographic additions will be provided during the lessons. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA Ricevimento: In person, at a times to be determined. GAIA COTTINO Exam Board SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (President) MARCO AIME GAIA COTTINO (President Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START Second semester Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy 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 Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 20/01/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale 08/02/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale 23/05/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale 14/06/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale 05/07/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale 12/09/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION Students are invited to consult the materials posted periodically in the web classroom. Information on this will be provided during the lessons. Students with SLD, disability or other special educational needs certification are advised to contact both the referent Prof. Canepa and the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination methods which, in compliance with the objectives of the teaching, take into account individual learning methods and provide suitable compensatory tools.
