Communication, technologies and digital culture

Educational objectives

1) This module aims at providing students with those fundamentals which are necessary to understand the structure and functioning of the Italian state system, its relationship with the international community and in particular with the European Union, the rights and liberty guaranteed to citizens and the regulation of the media system as far as journalism, broadcasting system and communication tecnologies are concerned. This knowledge is essential for the education of future professionals in the field of information and communication.
2) After attending the module and passing the final exam students will be able to fully understand the organization and operation of the Italian State, its relationship with the international/EU legal order and the fundamental rules of media system. These skills will be useful for them in their future professional life.
3) Through the discussion in the classroom of the topics presented from time to time, students will have the opportunity to refine their critical and judgmental skills.
3) The discussion in the classroom of the topics presented from time to time will be encouraged, so that students will have the opportunity to refine their critical and judgment skills.
4) The final exam, which takes place orally, is an opportunity for students to test their ability to communicate what they have learned.
5) During the course, students will be provided with bibliographic references and online resources, in order to allow them to deepen the topics covered independently

Educational objectives

General objectives.
The first general objective of the course is to introduce students to the main themes of study of social psychology, highlighting the empirical nature of the discipline. To achieve this goal, in addition to the lectures some exercises will be carried out based on the critical analysis of a few relevant researches, discussing their methodological choices and applicative consequences in various contexts.The second general objective is to propose a specific study on the contribution given by the social psychology to communication studies. Here again methodological problems linked to construction of research and to results' interpretation will be considered in depth. The third general objective is to discuss how the study of communication, based on the contributions of social psychology on these issues, may be modified in the current context of everyday life, increasingly characterized in an intercultural sense.
Upon completion of the course students are expected to understand the originality of the psychological discipline, which deals with the same self-reflective questions that are part of everyday thinking, but using the tools and methodologies of an empirical science. Even with the deepening of some fundamental researches that shaped the core of the discipline, students are expected to differentiate between the formulation of a research question, that is circumscribed and verifiable, and psychological commonsense representations of processes explaining how one's own mind and the mind of others work. Students are also expected to master a description of the main areas of study of the discipline, paying a particular attention to research focused on the theme of human communication, both face to face and mediated.

Specific objectives.
1. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
At the end of the course students are expected to have adequate skills to understand the complexity of psychological research, especially for researches carried out in the field of social psychology and communication psychology. Students are also expected to use these skills to analyse those situations when distorted psycho-social and communication processes (such as lack of care and social isolation, structural, symbolic, cultural, or direct violence, manipulative or false communications) threaten trust and hope in oneself and in one's own social relationships, which psychology considers as the indispensable bases for the safeguarding of mental wellbeing and of constructive social relationships.
2. Autonomy of judgment.
Students will have the opportunity to discuss with each other and with the teacher about some researches that proved to be fundamental for the development of the discipline, by critically examining their methodology, the interpretation of their results and their applicative consequences. In particular, students will be encouraged to develop their own capacity for an independent judgment facing the ethical aspects of psychological researches, and the subsequent vision of man and society that these researches imply.
3. Communication skills.
During the entire teaching period, students will be involved in organizing and conducting debates on topics that they have chosen within the training offer. Furthermore, after having studied in depth some topics related to specific research domains, experts of these areas of research will be invited in the classroom, to answer the students' questions.
4. Learning skills.
A first phase of the course will be based mainly on traditional lessons, and will be followed by a mid-term evaluation test to make clear the acquisition of a set of basic concepts. Starting from these acquisitions, students will be encouraged to carry out autonomous study activities, within a set of suggestions prepared by the teacher. These activities will be carried out by small working groups that will then report the conclusions of their study to the discussion of the whole class, using communication methods chosen by the students themselves (power point presentations, commentary on short films, analysis of selected researches, etc.).

Educational objectives

General objective
The course aims to provide the foundations of sociology through a theoretical-conceptual preparation related to sociological discipline developed in the historical sense (historical and social origins of the birth of sociology), authorial (classical authors and currents of study), conceptual (guiding concepts of the discipline) , methodological (general lines and applications in research already carried out). Through lectures, in-depth seminars with experts and privileged witnesses and exercises / simulations, the course aims to provide knowledge and skills related to theories and techniques of observation and analysis of social phenomena, with particular attention to those of the current society, to the end of knowing how to read and interpret social dynamics starting from their foundations: social actors and facts, persistence and social change, reference to traditional and emerging paradigms.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn:
(Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to: main sociological theories (traditional and emerging); analysis of the main social phenomena (origins, evolution, factors of persistence and change); themes of analysis in the analysis of contemporary society (including globalization, social inequalities, individualization, digital-technological communication, migration);
(Dublin Descriptor 2) skills needed to analyze the main characteristics of social theories and processes by providing analysis models applicable to different spaces and times in cultural, political and economic terms. The development of specific skills in the application of the theoretical models to the instruments of observation and interpretation will be verified with in-depth study in specific case studies: among these, cultural diversity in migration and integration processes and the assumption of the paradigm of social and economic sustainability.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have:
(Dublin Descriptor 3) critical and judgmental skills with respect to the processes of social change, to its social actors and to the factors of reading the transformations read in a historical and comparative sense, through the analysis of case studies, simulations and lesson techniques overturned and self-directed learning;
(Dublin Descriptor 4) ability to correct the argumentative expression of the knowledge through the solicitation of the teachers to intervene during the lesson by assuming a self-directed role, the presentation of the activities carried out for the realization of case studies and the final oral exam;
(Dublin Descriptor 5) ability to deepen the study and knowledge of the evolutionary scenarios of social processes in an autonomous way, having acquired the knowledge related to the theoretical models and their evolution, but also to the collection, selection and systematization of the sources of analysis and interpretation for purposes of professional use as well as training.

Educational objectives

The Course is aimed at students of the Degree Course in Communication, Technologies and Digital Cultures.
The course aims to develop a reflection on the role and pervasiveness of communication in contemporary society, on the one hand through the study of communication as a scientific object, on the other hand through the examination of the contribution that the social sciences have given to the foundation of communication sciences.
Considerable space is devoted to the connection that links the origin and the development of means of communication to the main cultural and institutional changes of the modern world, and to the reflection about the role played by communication in representing and anticipating the iridescent profile of postmodern environment.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer to the students the conceptual and methodological tools for a critical knowledge of the past and its complex and changing relationships with the present time.
The general goal of the course is to transfer to the student the ability to problematize and contextualize, in a long-term framework, the analysis of the political-institutional, social and cultural processes of the contemporary age, stimulating a constant and close comparison between the historical method and the disciplines that concur to widen its visual angle and to enrich its analytical-conceptual instrumentation: mainly the sciences of the social and cultural processes, political and juridical-institutional sciences, social psychology, political philosophy, anthropology, sciences of language.
A more specific objective of the course is to provide students, within the framework of the more general knowledge and the multidisciplinary vision described above, an adequate basic knowledge of the history of information systems and of the cultural industry in the age of the 'public' and 'global networks', with particular attention to the political, social and cultural dimension of the relationship between communication and power.
At the end of the learning process the student will have to demonstrate knowledge and ability to understand history as a study of long-term change, in order to develop adequate and discerning skills in the analysis of social, political and cultural contexts, to raise awareness look at the diversity of the points of view on social reality, to develop a complex and problematic approach to the increasingly global and interconnected society of our time.
The student will then have to demonstrate his ability to face complex issues in the field of contemporary history, mainly in its international, political-institutional, socio-cultural dimensions, and, more specifically, in the social history of the media and the relationship between power and communication, with the support of advanced textbooks, seminar meetings, multimedia resources.
The student must also demonstrate that he is able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way, both to conceive and support arguments, and to solve problems in his field of study. It will therefore have to show itself capable of gathering and systematizing data, as well as selecting, cross-checking and analyzing information sources, organizing them in a congruent manner, establishing links and logical links to support his own reasoning skills and a more mature individual critical sense.
The study of contemporary history is consequently indispensable also in order to acquire, in line with the educational objectives of the degree course in Communication, technologies and digital cultures, both general and specific communication and expressive abilities, in the face of the student's more general need to be endowed with that cultural sensitivity essential to dialectical confrontation, to relational activity in public and private organizations and institutions, in problem solving activities.

Educational objectives

The course is aimed at:
1. making students acquire consciousness of the relevance and complexity of cultural processes in contemporary societies, and in everyday life of individuals;
2. furnishing a specialized vocabulary, useful to understand and describe the complexity of the cultural and identitary questions;
3. giving the concepts and methods to experiment paths of research and analysis concerning cultural issues and problems emerging in today public debate, paying particular attention to the migration phenomena and gender questions;
4. making students understand the tight interdependence of cultural and media processes in our societies;
5. making students conscious of the partiality of their own perspective;
6. stimulating discussion on the political implications of the identity and cultural issues;
7. making students acquire consciousness of the relevance of using suitable format and standard in different forms of writing;
8. making students do experience of a sociological writing;
9. making students do experience of a progressive autonomy in approaching and using scientific texts;
10. stimulating the use of the acquired knowledge in reading current and media events.

Educational objectives

The main objective of this course is to provide the student with the theoretical foundations, supported by appropriate basic technical skills, in relation to the thematic area known as Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In particular, during the course, the student will have the opportunity to learn essential knowledge concerning: the development of new technologies (including, hardware architectures, operating systems, media manipulation, good practices in design, multimodal interfaces and information systems); the storage and management of data and information (including, the creation and manipulation of databases, descriptive models, data integrity and query languages); the semantic analysis of data (including, programming principles and artificial intelligence techniques); computer networks (including, topologies, models, architectures, cloud services, routing algorithms and security); and, finally, the creation of WEB sites and portals by popular Content Management Systems (CMSs).

Specifically, the main purposes of the proposed course can be detailed as follows:
1. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the theoretical foundations related to the thematic area known as ICT. In particular, the student will have acquired full knowledge of the technological tools that are nowadays used in any corporate (e.g., company, factory, industry). Moreover, the student will have acquired full knowledge about the opportunities offered by the latest technologies to support specific application fields (e.g., manufacturing, management, commercial). In addition, the student will have acquired full knowledge about the ability to manage digital data and information in any working cycle. Finally, the student will have acquired adequate technical skills for the basic manipulation of both technological tools and related digital resources.
2. At the end of the course, the student will know how to relate with the most recent human-computer interfaces existing today; the student will also know how to relate with the most common tools that drive the current corporates (i.e., management information systems); the student, in addition, will know how to use the basic functionalities of some of the most widespread tools in the ICT field (i.e., database querying language, content management systems). Finally, the student will be also able to use the basic concepts and constructs for the deep data analysis (i.e., machine / deep learning, programming scripts in MATLAB).
3. At the end of the course, through group activities aimed to develop both a database and a mini-site for the management of a small enterprise, as well as, through additional teaching materials (e.g., sites, free digital documents), the student will have acquired adequate skills to autonomously select the most appropriate technological tools, the most appropriate information content, and the most effective type of data analysis for the solution of a specific case study.
4. At the end of the course, the student will be able to communicate, with appropriate language and updated with respect to the current state-of-the-art, the acquired skills and experiences in the ICT field.
5. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired both a basic technical skill and an excellent cultural baggage, to be able to continue the study of the acquired topics in an autonomous way.

Educational objectives

The Course is aimed at students of the Degree Course in Communication, Technologies and Digital Cultures.
The course aims to develop a reflection on the role and pervasiveness of communication in contemporary society, on the one hand through the study of communication as a scientific object, on the other hand through the examination of the contribution that the social sciences have given to the foundation of communication sciences.
Considerable space is devoted to the connection that links the origin and the development of means of communication to the main cultural and institutional changes of the modern world, and to the reflection about the role played by communication in representing and anticipating the iridescent profile of postmodern environment.

Educational objectives

By studying Fundamentals of Economics, students should learn some basic knowledge of Economics, master fundamental economic concepts and use economic theories to analyze micro- and macroeconomic phenomena in our daily life. In particular, the aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of:
• the principles of demand, supply, and market price and quantity determination;
• the behavior of individual consumers and businesses in response to market forces;
• the functioning of the economic system and the effects of fiscal and monetary policy on unemployment, inflation, and capacity utilization.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course are:
1. to make students capable to communicate in Spanish in different situations within the humanities, social sciences of the information society and communication studies;
2. to make students familiar with Hispanic culture (both Spanish and Hispanic American culture) to promote awareness and interest, to fully immerse students in the Spanish;
3. to make students master of the basics of Spanish phonetics to speak properly, with right pronunciation, intonation and rhythm. In this way they could eventually work in cinema, theatre, radio and television;
4. to make students familiar with Spanish spelling and improve their writing skills in order to be able to work in the press, publishing and digital media industries.

Educational objectives

The course aims to offer the student the means to construct research designs and the suitable technique to answer to the cognitive demand the researcher poses.
Students will learn:
a) how to collect data --- individual and aggregate;
b) to choose the proper techniques to analyse it;
c) to illustrate the data as well as to utilise and assess data research.
Indeed, not only is this knowledge useful for students and future researchers, but also for those who intend to commission research, as they need to be able to judge the competence of the agencies that will carry it out, as well as the reliability of the data collected by other researchers.
d) The student must learn to deepen knowledge independently.

Educational objectives

General Objective
The aim of the course is to analyze in depth mass communication theories and the new forms of communication developed in digital platforms, with particular attention to the Social Network Sites and to the convergence process of traditional media with IP based technologies.

Specific Objectives.

Knowledge and understanding.
The course aims at analyzing and developing mastery over the vocabulary and theoretical models of mass communications, the evolution of the internet and digital platforms (publishing, distribution, social networking), the user experience that characterizes non-linear vision of audio-video content. The acquired knowledge offers a strong base of reference for understanding the transformations of communication in the phase of media convergence.

Applying knowledge and understanding.
Moreover the course aims at developing specific skills with respect to social media to apply in the different fields of communication.

Making judgements.
Attention will be dedicated, through specific discussion moments inside the lessons, also to the economic, political and social impacts produced by the ubiquitous presence of media platforms in everyday life, with the aim to develop critical distance and autonomy of judgment with respect to relevant topics that arouse social alarm.

Communication skills.
The course aims at promoting the ability to communicate information, ideas and knowledges through strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons and the oral exam;

Learning skills.
The course aims at promoting the learning skills that are necessary to continue to undertake further study about the evolution of the digital media with a good degree of autonomy. In fact the skills acquired are preparatory to the project work students will perform in the MSc programs of the Department and ensure adequate autonomy in the professional experience.

Educational objectives

The hours making up the course are based on practical exercises carried out by an English mother-tongue ‘lettore’.

The main course objective is to consolidate and extend students’ abilities in all four language skills in English (Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing), to enable them to cope more effectively with, not only specialized genres pertinent to the three year degree course - journalism, social and communication sciences, business and economics -, but also those texts and contexts students are likely to meet in their future professions.
1. Knowledge and Learning: Presuming students will start at a general English B1 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, or CEFR), the primary objective of the course is to bring students up to a B2 level (according to CEFR) in some of the skills and in specialized areas relevant to the degree course and beyond by adopting an applied linguist approach to learning, that is, meaning is activated by context, with linguistic elements being presented in a variety of texts and contexts.
2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired: the second objective is of the course is to provide students with adequate theoretical principles of English, accompanied with ample opportunity to apply theory to practice through a variety of means.
3. Student autonomy: another objective is to foster student autonomy in their learning, where students are encouraged, not only to develop specific study skills, but also to assess their own performance through comparison of their own work and model answers.
4. Communicative ability: to foster students’ communicative ability in English, student participation during the course is actively encouraged, through discussion and assessment of genres, and debates, as is a sense of critical analysis of their own performance and output, and those of their peers.

2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired: the second objective is of the course is to
provide students with adequate theoretical principles of English, accompanied with ample opportunity to apply theory to practice through a variety of means.

3. Student autonomy: another objective is to foster student autonomy in their learning, where students are encouraged, not only to develop specific study skills, but also to assess their own performance through comparison of their own work and model answers.

4. Communicative ability: to foster students’ communicative ability in English, student participation during the course is actively encouraged, through discussion and assessment of genres, and debates, as is a sense of critical analysis of their own performance and output, and those of their peers.

5. Learning strategies: overall, practical exercises aim to provide the students with both the means to continue to independently progress in their knowledge and application of English, and a flexibility of approach to adapt their language knowledge and learning to the different contexts they will meet in their future professions.

Expected results: at the end of the course, students are expected to have extended their knowledge and application of specialized genres in English, more fully understanding intended messages, and also being able to use appropriate forms to communicate in a clear and more efficient manner.

Educational objectives

The course aims to teach students how to analyze and read quantitative information regarding a wide range of social, economic and cultural aspects in communication.
The course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills aimed at understanding the basic techniques of data analysis. It also emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of data for a conscious use of quantitative information, enabling students to exploit the potential of national and international statistical sources.
Students will therefore be introduced to the methodology of descriptive statistics, with particular regard to the applicative aspects, as well as to the interpretation of the results.
At the end of the course they will be able to understand the process of constructing statistical data and whether these have been correctly analyzed; they will also be able to apply the basic techniques of descriptive statistics and to read and interpret the results.
Classroom exercises are also provided, which will enable students to concretely learn the use and purpose of single and bivariate data analysis.
At the end of the course, students will be able to use official statistical sources independently, to find secondary data and to handle the data appropriately.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to develop an adequate mastery and awareness of communication processes from the semiotic and linguistic theory perspective.

Specific objectives:
1. Knowledge and understanding: the first goal of the course is to introduce students to the main themes of semiotic and linguistic study of communication, highlighting the areas of study, vocabulary and methodologies of the discipline. To this end the course will address classical studies and fundamental approaches (mainly comparative and structural linguistics). Current perspective and recent developments will be introduced as well.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the second specific goal of the course is being able to apply the acquired knowledge to problems concerning communication and narrative texts, and to develop arguments in the light of the contribution provided in particular by semiotics, but also linguistics and theory of language, in order to understand the processes of communication and to analyze the discourses, and the non verbal and multimodal texts.
3. Making judgements: as a methodology of discourse, interpretation and text analysis semiotics will be useful in order to analyze the adequacy of different kind of texts and different types of reader, as well as the implications and the ideologic level of the discourses.
4. Communication Skills: further specific objectives of the course concern the ability to analyze and reflect autonomously on issues of social relevance in light of the theoretical-methodological tools provided by the course. These objectives will be pursued through targeted activities of text analysis in the classroom.
5. Expected results: students will develop, starting from lectures, knowledge related to the main topics of semiotics of the text and social communication , and will acquire through practical exercises and thematic investigation new skills and mastery of the fields of study, the vocabulary and the methodologies of the discipline.

Educational objectives

Following the goals that foresee the close examination of sociological themes, our course is designed to provide an analysis of the social sciences standpoint on territorial development and its sustainability. It will also introduce the empirical methods of research oriented towards the qualitative analysis of collective action in social environment.
Outcomes:
1. Acquisition of knowledge about the basic items of environmental sociology
2. Acquisition of skills avaiable to territorial policies
3. Skills in editing reports
4. Skills to communicate the job during a public presentation
5. Ability to continue the study in autonomous way, depeening the bibliography furnished to the fear of the course

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to equip the students with the minimum knowledge necessary to analyze and understand consumer markets, in the highly competitive framework firms must face today.The point of view is that of the private-owned enterprise competing in a differentiated oligopoly market. We study manufacturing enterprises, without neglecting the specifics of services industries.
The framework of reference is that defined by the combined arrangement of globalization and technological revolution.

1. Knowledge and understanding.
Students will learn fundamentals of economics and business management, will be able to frame them in the relevant macroeconomic coordinates (consumption, business investment, public spending, import-export balance), will understand the basics of microeconomics (economic functions of the players and their relationships) in order to put everything in the appropriate framework. The first part of the course is dedicated to the achievement of this goal which, of course, given the students' curriculum, will be achieved by adopting a descriptive approach and by simplifying the concepts to the essential.
Then, the student will be led to understand marketing management principles and objectives. The key concept of value will be stressed. The student will become aware of the conceptual and methodological system underlying each strategy and the consequent operation. The second part of the course is dedicated to achieve this goal. Formal lectures will be integrated with thematic seminars, held by qualified testimonials.
Great care, throughout the course, is given to the acquisition of the technical language of the discipline, recently renewed by the digital revolution.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding.
It is expected that students, at the end of the course, will be able to independently analyze markets, understanding what the business goals are, and the complexity of management.

3. Making judgements.
It is the definitive aim of the course. The selection of themes, the breadth of the observation field, respond exactly to the ultimate goal of providing the student with an independent judgment, based on the data and facts that can be found.

4. Communication skills.
The number of students in the classroom does not allow the experiment of an active teaching oriented to develop communication skills. Nevertheless it is the teacher's constant care to try to stimulate the debate in the classroom and describe the tools to support the communication of concepts. The final exam test, in the part of the closed questions (multiple choice) is however oriented to verify the possession of the technical vocabulary of the discipline - indispensable for the purpose of a correct expression of the student's values.

5. Learning skills.
During lessons the main information resources on markets are introduced (official data sources, specialized websites and / or focused on marketing, etc.) and, at the end of the course, the best ways to undertake higher-level studies on marketing will be detailed.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide the basic principles of sociology of journalism and newsmaking processes for different media. Through lectures, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and practical activities, the students will gain knowledge and skills related to the theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking. These knowledge and competencies will be useful to analyse different media models (including aspects related to the journalistic languages) and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn
- (Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to the following subjects: main traditional and digital journalistic models; the “Italian case”, its origins and its evolution, up to the current trends of development; theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking; journalism genres and fields; focus on other subjects related to digital journalism (including citizen journalism, social media role, fake news, data journalism, mobile devices role and information characteristics and formats on mobile devices);
- (Dublin Descriptor 2) skills useful to analyse different media models and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have
- (Dublin Descriptor 3) all the necessary skills to interpret and evaluate the processes adopted by newsmaking players to socially construct and represent society. That will be possible thanks to exercises, case studies analysis and strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons;
- (Dublin Descriptor 4) the ability to communicate information, ideas and knowledges through strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons, the presentation of practical activities and the oral exam;
- (Dublin Descriptor 5) learning skills that are necessary to continue to undertake further study about the evolution of the journalistic field with a high degree of autonomy, through case studies analysis, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and sources suggested by professors for updating on the studied subjects.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide the basic principles of sociology of journalism and newsmaking processes for different media. Through lectures, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and practical activities, the students will gain knowledge and skills related to the theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking. These knowledge and competencies will be useful to analyse different media models (including aspects related to the journalistic languages) and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn
- (Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to the following subjects: main traditional and digital journalistic models; the “Italian case”, its origins and its evolution, up to the current trends of development; theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking; journalism genres and fields; focus on other subjects related to digital journalism (including citizen journalism, social media role, fake news, data journalism, mobile devices role and information characteristics and formats on mobile devices);
- (Dublin Descriptor 2) skills useful to analyse different media models and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have
- (Dublin Descriptor 3) all the necessary skills to interpret and evaluate the processes adopted by newsmaking players to socially construct and represent society. That will be possible thanks to exercises, case studies analysis and strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons;
- (Dublin Descriptor 4) the ability to communicate information, ideas and knowledges through strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons, the presentation of practical activities and the oral exam;
- (Dublin Descriptor 5) learning skills that are necessary to continue to undertake further study about the evolution of the journalistic field with a high degree of autonomy, through case studies analysis, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and sources suggested by professors for updating on the studied subjects.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide the basic principles of sociology of journalism and newsmaking processes for different media. Through lectures, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and practical activities, the students will gain knowledge and skills related to the theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking. These knowledge and competencies will be useful to analyse different media models (including aspects related to the journalistic languages) and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Specific objectives
At the end of the course the students will learn
- (Dublin Descriptor 1) knowledge related to the following subjects: main traditional and digital journalistic models; the “Italian case”, its origins and its evolution, up to the current trends of development; theories and techniques of journalism and newsmaking; journalism genres and fields; focus on other subjects related to digital journalism (including citizen journalism, social media role, fake news, data journalism, mobile devices role and information characteristics and formats on mobile devices);
- (Dublin Descriptor 2) skills useful to analyse different media models and to develop and manage journalistic contents related to digital environments.

Moreover, at the end of the course the students will have
- (Dublin Descriptor 3) all the necessary skills to interpret and evaluate the processes adopted by newsmaking players to socially construct and represent society. That will be possible thanks to exercises, case studies analysis and strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons;
- (Dublin Descriptor 4) the ability to communicate information, ideas and knowledges through strong interaction with professors and other participants during lessons, the presentation of practical activities and the oral exam;
- (Dublin Descriptor 5) learning skills that are necessary to continue to undertake further study about the evolution of the journalistic field with a high degree of autonomy, through case studies analysis, seminars with publishing and information field professionals and sources suggested by professors for updating on the studied subjects.

Educational objectives

Teaching regulations provide a specific number of credits to be allocated to "chosen by the student activities". The student is free to choose the lessons he prefers with the aim of expanding and deepening the curriculum.
These activities consist solely of exams related to modules activated in the three-year degree course and not yet inserted as optional or exams chosen among those provided in any other three-year degree courses of the Department, of the Faculty or of other Faculties of Sapienza. The booking and the methods for verbalising the exam grade taken as an activity chosen by the student are the same as those of the other exams required by the curriculum; the grade obtained in these exams contributes to the definition of the average of the votes.

Educational objectives

The module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies, through a periodization that goes from the 40s to today, retraces the evolutionary stages of the birth, diffusion and affirmation of the Italian cultural industry system, both in terms of production and consumption. In order to provide a theoretical framework, into the module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies is deepened the transition from the paradigm of modernity to that of late-modernity, with particular attention to the relationship between the media evolution and some foundational categories of the subject's experience such as time, space, identity, community, work.

1. Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to deepen the theories of the cultural industry and to analyze characteristics and the evolution of the different sectors that compose it, from cinema to television, from publishing to radio to digital media. Particular attention is reserved to the specificities of the "Italian case", with a view to interconnections between the media system, politics and the socio-cultural context.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the course aims to apply the knowledge learned, regarding the study of the various sectors of the cultural industry, through the analysis of audiovisual documents, in order to understand how the media have told the process of industrialization of the Country and how, vice versa, the media system has evolved in parallel to social, political and cultural dynamics.
3 – 4 – 5. Transversal skills: the course aims at acquiring critical judgment skills and an analytical and transversal study approach, through laboratory activities that include moments of confrontation in the classroom on specific case studies and on-going exercises on the topics covered in class.

Educational objectives

The module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies, through a periodization that goes from the 40s to today, retraces the evolutionary stages of the birth, diffusion and affirmation of the Italian cultural industry system, both in terms of production and consumption. In order to provide a theoretical framework, into the module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies is deepened the transition from the paradigm of modernity to that of late-modernity, with particular attention to the relationship between the media evolution and some foundational categories of the subject's experience such as time, space, identity, community, work.

1. Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to deepen the theories of the cultural industry and to analyze characteristics and the evolution of the different sectors that compose it, from cinema to television, from publishing to radio to digital media. Particular attention is reserved to the specificities of the "Italian case", with a view to interconnections between the media system, politics and the socio-cultural context.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the course aims to apply the knowledge learned, regarding the study of the various sectors of the cultural industry, through the analysis of audiovisual documents, in order to understand how the media have told the process of industrialization of the Country and how, vice versa, the media system has evolved in parallel to social, political and cultural dynamics.
3 – 4 – 5. Transversal skills: the course aims at acquiring critical judgment skills and an analytical and transversal study approach, through laboratory activities that include moments of confrontation in the classroom on specific case studies and on-going exercises on the topics covered in class.

Educational objectives

The module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies, through a periodization that goes from the 40s to today, retraces the evolutionary stages of the birth, diffusion and affirmation of the Italian cultural industry system, both in terms of production and consumption. In order to provide a theoretical framework, into the module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies is deepened the transition from the paradigm of modernity to that of late-modernity, with particular attention to the relationship between the media evolution and some foundational categories of the subject's experience such as time, space, identity, community, work.

1. Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to deepen the theories of the cultural industry and to analyze characteristics and the evolution of the different sectors that compose it, from cinema to television, from publishing to radio to digital media. Particular attention is reserved to the specificities of the "Italian case", with a view to interconnections between the media system, politics and the socio-cultural context.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the course aims to apply the knowledge learned, regarding the study of the various sectors of the cultural industry, through the analysis of audiovisual documents, in order to understand how the media have told the process of industrialization of the Country and how, vice versa, the media system has evolved in parallel to social, political and cultural dynamics.
3 – 4 – 5. Transversal skills: the course aims at acquiring critical judgment skills and an analytical and transversal study approach, through laboratory activities that include moments of confrontation in the classroom on specific case studies and on-going exercises on the topics covered in class.

Educational objectives

The final exam aims at summarize the training acquired by the student over the three years. The aim is to attest to the achievement of an adequate mastery, on the one hand, of the disciplinary knowledge characterizing the course of study; on the other hand, the capacity for argumentation and writing, the management of documentary sources and, last but not least, autonomous project intervention. Therefore, the final exam represents an experience aimed at enhancing the nature of the three-year degrees as basic training for future professionals of the communication.
In addition to the classical form of the essay - which may or may not use an empirical research - of the indicative dimensions of no more than 50 folders (of about 80,000 - 100,000 characters), the work may consist of the presentation of different communication products (sites, products audiovisual, Cd-Rom, projects, communication and marketing plans, formats, advertising or social communication campaigns, communication services and products, etc.), which can be carried out integrally or partially through multimedia formats.