Università Roma Tre

INFORMATION AND JOURNALISM SYSTEMS 2024/25
Monographic part: The talk show: the staging of public debate: formats, rules, protagonists, professions.

The course in Information Systems of Journalism year 24/25 is organized in two parts.
The institutional part addresses the changed relationship between journalism and society and the transformations that have involved the Information System within the new digital ecosystem, focusing both on the regulatory, productive and organizational dimensions of online journalism, with, in particular, the emergence of new non-institutional actors, and on the observation of more sociological variables such as supply and consumption models, journalistic values ​​and the characteristics of the new formats of digital journalism (sites, podcasts, blogs). In this part, the theme of the complex balance between information, independence, pluralism and the need for regulation to guarantee its authoritativeness and reliability will also be addressed.
The monographic part analyses a particular journalistic/television genre: the political talk show. After a part devoted to retracing in a historical key, the diffusion and evolution of the genre in Italy in close relation to the evolution of the political and media scene and to the analysis of its structural and constitutive components, the quantity, quality and trends of the talk show in the current television season will be analyzed.
The monographic part includes:
- meetings with protagonists and professional figures involved in the various stages of the production of a talk show: journalist, set designer, author
- viewing of archive materials
- carrying out research and papers that can tax part of the exam.

The syllabus will be communicated at the beginning of the course