|
Teacher
|
lombardinilo andrea
(syllabus)
Title of the class:
Post-truth and disinformation: the challenges of connected communication
The class deals with those learning skills which are fundamental for further studies requiring a high degree of autonomy in the field of sociology media and cultural processes, in the light of digitalization and globalization aided by the advent of consumer and media society. The educational perspective is to highlight the central role played by media in human experience in line with historic and sociological sensitivity, so as to further investigate some interpretative patterns of our reality, such as safety, uncertainty, media hypertrophy, risk, technology, rhetoric, representation, consumption, confidence, memory. While dwelling on the heuristic perspectives of communication research, the sociology of communication deals with some complex media dynamics, at a time also marked by the pandemic and war emergencies. As a result, a substantial deontological and documentary responsibility is imposed on information actors in order to cope with the perception of unsafety and uncertainty. Hence the necessity to impart the requisite media and cultural knowledge to students who are called upon to examine the huge amount of information and contents shaping the digital media-sphere.
Program of the class:
• Sociology of media: methodological and theoretical notes
• The risks of connected society and information deontology
• Education and information
• Journalism between mainstream and digital devices
• Post-truth as a epistemological insight
• The drawbacks of disinformation
• Narration, news, education: what kind of democracy?
• Cultures of Inclusion: the challenges of new media
• Lack of transparency and informative mystification
(reference books)
- In case of a 3 CFUs curriculum: Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation, The MIT Press, 2023.
- In case of 6 CFUs curriculum it is compulsory to integrate the aforementioned program with the contents taught by professor Cecilia Costa in the general section of the curriculum (3 CFUs).
|
Università Roma Tre