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- COURSE UNIT “HISTORY AND MODELS OF JOURNALISM” GENERAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES The course unit aims to equip students with appropriate levels of KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, as well as ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS in reference to the news-information field and the role of the journalistic profession, in contemporary Italy and in relation with the international context. It is therefore to investigate the evolution of journalism within the more general context of the cultural industry up to the 21st century. The focus analysis will be on the "Italian case", but to better understand the social, communicative and professional trends that intersect in the formation of the contemporary journalistic field, we will analyze the different news-information models in a comparative perspective and themes related to changes of the profession in the digital age and the role of journalism in the production and dissemination of news from a “framing perspective”. The Course unit is in turn composed of four thematic Modules corresponding to different EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES, both GENERAL and SPECIFIC. 1. History of Italian journalism. The aim is to equip students with tools of KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING the historical evolution of Italian journalism, in particular by analyzing the most significant players and the dynamics of connection between social and technological changes in the profession, as well the main historical and political events from the 19th century to today. The reconstruction of the historical framework will allow students to APPLY such KNOWLEDGE to the particular Italian context, as well as to exercise specific CRITICAL AND JUDGMENT CAPACITIES in reference to the socio-political and economic factors that led to the current Italian news-information model. 2. Journalism Models Students will also be able to deepen and UNDERSTAND the modalities of the formation of the "model" of Italian journalism, this in constant reference with the developments of the European and US news-information systems, also in order to develop an adequate COMPREHENSION and APPLICATION of the comparative method. In fact, the students will be asked to APPLY the main theoretical models on journalism to different national cases, through reports on simulations for case studies whose dynamics will also be highlighted in a CRITICAL perspective. 3. Changes in the journalistic profession. At the end of the course the students will also be able to UNDERSTAND and analyze the main dynamics that affect the professional field of journalism, also with reference to an in-depth KNOWLEDGE of the evolutionary dynamics imposed by the processes of digital convergence. 4. Framing and analysis of news-information. Finally, the students will UNDERSTAND and analyze the methods of construction and treatment of the news, particularly studying the “framing perspective” as an interpretive key in the analysis of news-information flows and the role of different actors in the production, dissemination and use of news. This will allow to exercise CRITICAL AND JUDGMENT CAPACITY on the dynamics of construction and mediated representation of reality, through student reports on in-depth studies and case histories.