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: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of the communicative interactions. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and social practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generations, and social class.

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Words. The Ecology of Conversation, Routledge, London, 2023.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge, London, 2024 (in publication).
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116.

2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507.

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: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class.

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-words. The Ecology of Conversation", Routledge, London, 2023
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with A Polluted Mind, Routledge, London (in publication - October 1, 2024)
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116
2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507