Università Roma Tre

The program consists of an introductory part on the main theoretical perspectives of mass communication and new media and a monographic part dedicated to the relationship between digital media and contemporary society. This second part will also focus on society of platforms, the power of algorithms and social network, the problem of fake news and, more generally, the effects produced by medial digital on daily life and on social, political and economic dynamics.

- L. Paccagnella, Sociologia della comunicazione nell’era digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020

A book chosen from the following:
- Z. Bauman, D. Lyon, Sesto potere. La sorveglianza nella modernità liquida, Bari, Laterza, 2015
- V. Barassi, I figli dell’algoritmo. Sorvegliati, tracciati, profilati dalla nascita, Roma, Luiss University Press, 2021.
- G. Ritzer, La McDonaldizzazione del mondo nella società digitale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2020.
- G. Ziccardi, Tecnologie per il potere. Come usare i social network in politica, Milano, Raffello Cortina Editore, 2019