Università Roma Tre

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: verbal and non-verbal communication, interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction.
The second part of the course introduces the main models of media analysis and the main theoretical perspectives of sociology of media, with a specific focus on the audience analysis, the media reception and the main theories related to media effects. In particular, the social changes led by digital media in the contemporary society and the medial representations of identities will be considered.

a) Anna Lisa Tota, 2020, Ecologia della Parola. Il piacere della Conversazione, Einaudi, Torino.

b) Denis McQuail, 2007, Sociologia dei media, Il Mulino, Bologna (only the following chapters: 1. Introduzione; 2. La nascita dei mezzi di comunicazione di massa; 3. Concetti e modelli per le comunicazioni di massa; 4. Teorie dei media e teorie della società; 5. Comunicazione di massa e cultura; 16. La ricerca sugli effetti; 17. Effetti socio-culturali).

c) Stuart Hall, 1980, "Codifica e decodifica", in Tele-visioni, edited by A. Marinelli, G. Fatelli (2000), Meltemi, Roma, pp. 67-84.

d) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal (2019), Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa, edited by G. Boccia Artieri e A. Marinelli (only the introduction, “Per un’economia politica delle piattaforme” e the first chapther , “Platform Society: un concetto controverso”), Guerini, Milano, pp. 9-21 e 35-74.

The first part of the course introduces the main theories of communication, with reference to interpersonal communication. Key tppics discussed during this part of the course include: communication systems, interaction rituals, social frames, conversation rules, the relationship between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communication.
The second part of the course illustrates the main models of media analysis and the main theoretical perspectives of media sociology, making reference to the processes of audience formation, media use and the main theories relating to media effects. In particular, the social changes introduced by digital media in contemporary society and the media representations of identities conveyed by the media are analysed.

The final evaluation will be based on the following texts:
a) Anna Lisa Tota, 2020, Ecologia della Parola. Il piacere della Conversazione, Einaudi, Torino.
b) Denis McQuail, 2007, Sociologia dei media, Il Mulino, Bologna (soltanto i capitoli: 1. Introduzione; 2. La nascita dei mezzi di comunicazione di massa; 3. Concetti e modelli per le comunicazioni di massa; 4. Teorie dei media e teorie della società; 5. Comunicazione di massa e cultura; 16. La ricerca sugli effetti; 17. Effetti socio-culturali).
c) Stuart Hall, 1980, "Codifica e decodifica", in Tele-visioni, a cura di A. Marinelli e G. Fatelli (2000), Meltemi, Roma, pp. 67-84.
d) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal (2019), Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa, edizione italiana a cura di G. Boccia Artieri e A. Marinelli (soltanto l'introduzione, “Per un’economia politica delle piattaforme” e il capitolo 1, “Platform Society: un concetto controverso”), Guerini, Milano, pp. 9-21 e 35-74.

Students will also have access the teaching materials used by the teacher (power points and images) and a series of suggested readings, whose reading is optional.

All materials are available on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it on the teacher's personal page.