The journalistic communication has elaborated a relevant number of complex textual, linguistic and verbal-iconic messages for special purposes, that represent an important chapter of the cultural heritage of last two centuries.
The aim of the course is to illustrate the characteristics of this linguistic repository, considering the prevalent trends in the creation of neologisms, in the interlinguistic contacts, the rhetorical strategies and the syntactic and textual styles. At the light of the patterns of the functionalism, of the Critical Discourse Analysis and the pragmatic paradigm, we will consider the different points of view regarding the readability and the comprehension levels of various kinds of newspapers, magazines and web journalism messages.
Some activities will be aimed to develop and improve the writing competence of the students.

The course introduces the voices and problems of political thought, with a focus on the intertwining of language, politics and social processes.
There will be an in-depth study of the link between democracy, urban spaces and social conflicts.

- F. Giardini, L’alleanza Inquieta. Dimensioni politiche del linguaggio, Le lettere, Firenze 2010.
- A. Cavarero, Surging Democracy. Notes on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought, Stanford University Press 2021
- F. Castelli, Jane Addams, Chicago e la Hull House. Una democrazia radicata, Castelvecchi 2024
- J. Addams, "Recent Immigration, a Field Neglected by Scholar", University of Chicago Record, IX, 1905 (pp. 274-284)
- bell hooks, "Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness", in The Journal of Cinema and Media , 1989, No. 36 (1989), pp. 15-23 (Available Online)

Those who do not attend lectures are advised to read the handouts made available on the course's Moodle channel.
For Erasmus students it is possible to take the examination in English (or French)

The course introduces the different forms of social and political relations.
Further focus will concern a specific issue or author.

F. Giardini, I nomi della crisi, capp. 2 e 4 (reperibile on line)
F. Giardini, Relazioni, capp. 11, 12, 14, 15 (reperibile on line)

M. Foucault, Storia della follia nell’età classica, 1973, passi scelti ***
G. Canguilhem, Il normale e il patologico, 1966, passi scelti, ***
M. Foucault, Postfazione a G. Canguilhem, Il normale e il patologico ***

*** Testi reperibili on line a questo link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i9t6m61wenmQGdmO48u5trnDOscjM5ZK?usp=sharing

This course provides an introduction to:
(1) the role played by reasoning in rational interaction (discussions, exchanges of theses), in the solution of problems of logic and mathematics, and the consequence of a lack of adequate reasoning procedures in these areas;
(2) rational argumentation and the logical structure underlying valid arguments;
(3) a rigorous approach to deductive reasoning, based on the formal tools provided by propositional and quantified (deductive) logic.
The course also wishes to alert participants of the consequences of a lack of a rational course in the context of mass communication, information society, and online interaction, while developing the ability to correctly apply the basic rules of reasoning that are distinctive of deductive reasoning.

The course will apply, as far as possible, a ‘bottom-up' approach: from reasoning problems, to the tools required to solve them, to the theories in which such tools are defined, understood, and discussed. The course is divided into two modules:

Module A: It will approach and discuss the definition of an argument and it will then focus on deductive reasoning and on propositional logic in particular. In this context the course will introduce and discuss the basic rules of reasoning of propositional logic and it will discuss the notion of derivability; it will introduce the construction of a formal language, it will explore the semantics of propositional logic, the notions of logical consequence and validity, and the possible connections between derivability, logical consequence, and validity.

Module B: It will introduce the notion of a system of rules and that of an axiomatics system, together with the notions of soundness and completeness, and it will then focus on natural deduction and its soundness and completeness with respect to the semantics of classical propositional logic. It will then present basic facts, notions, and definitions of set theory, which are indispensable when it comes to an understanding of quantified logic. After that, the course will focus on quantified logic, by explaining the way in which quantified logic ‘reads’ predicates and quantifiers (expressions like ‘Every’ and ‘Some’), it will introduce basic rules for reasoning with the quantifiers, and it will introduce the semantics of quantified logic. The course will then discuss soundness and completeness of natural deduction for quantified classical logic with respect to the semantics of quantified classical logic.

The achievement of 12 CFU requires presenting the program of both modules; achievement of 6 CFU requires presenting the program of one of the two modules only. Comprehension of the materials from Module B presupposes familiarity with the materials from Module A.

Francesco Berto. Logica. Da zero a Gödel, Laterza, Roma 2008.

The course programme will address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of art, as well as some of the main intersections in the relationship between the philosophy of art and the critique of society. The course will be developed in two parts: in the first part some of the cardinal themes of the discipline will be addressed and the most important directions and authors of the aesthetic philosophical tradition will be analysed. The second part of the course will focus on the relationship between the philosophy of art and critique of the society of the spectacle.

P. D'Angelo, Estetica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2021
G. Debord, La società dello spettacolo, Baldini Castoldi, Milano 2017

Other learning materials may be provided by the professor via moodle.

Students who are not attending should integrate the programme with the following text:
A. Jappe, Guy Debord, Manifestolibri, Roma 2013

Communication is investigated in all of its technological and body modalities (words, prosody, intonation, gestures, facial expression, gaze, touch, posture, proxemics). Analysis and detection of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, and of its uses in interpersonal interaction, on the job, in education, politics, art, music, entertainment.

For the exam of 12 Credits, two books are to be studied for the oral examination:

A. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori Università, Milano 2022.

B. One book selected within the following list:

1. Poggi I.: Parlare con gli occhi. Lo sguardo come forma di comunicazione. Carocci, Roma 2023. (if studying this book, you can skip the following parts of Text A: Chapters 1 to 4 included, and chapters 7-8, 13-14, 23, 38)
2. Poggi I e D’Errico F.: Comunicazione multimodale e influenza sociale. Il corpo e il potere. Carocci, Roma 2020. (if studying this book, you can skip part IX of text A.)
3. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I. Bugie finzioni sotterfugi. Per una scienza dell'inganno. Carocci, Roma 2005 (if studying this book, you can skip Chapter 1 of this same book, “Bugie finzioni sotterfugi”, and Chapter 9 of text A., “Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo. Gli altri”)
4. Proverbio A.M.: Percezione e creazione musicale. Fondamenti biologici e basi emotive. Zanichelli 2022. (if studying this book, you can skip Part X of text A.)
5. Domaneschi F. e Penco C.: Come non detto. Usi e abusi dei sottintesi. Laterza, Bari 2016.
6. Lombardi Vallauri E.: La lingua disonesta. Mulino, 2019.
7. Paglieri F.: Disinformazione felice. Cosa c’insegnano le bufale. Mulino 2020
8. Scianna C.: Ironia. Indagine su un fenomeno linguistico, cognitivo e sociale. Carocci, 2022.
9. Pietrandrea P.: Comunicazione, dibattito pubblico, social media. Carocci 2021.
10. Proverbio A.M.: Neuroscienze e differenze sessuali. Carocci 2024.
11. Caruana F., Palagi E.: Perché ridiamo? All’origine del cervello sociale. Mulino 2023.
12. Seth A.: Come il cervello crea la nostra coscienza. Raffaello Cortina, 2023.
13. Cristianini N.: Machina sapiens. L’algoritmo che ci ha rubato il segreto della conoscenza. Mulino 2024.
14. Urbinati N.: L’ipocrisia virtuosa. Mulino, 2023.
15. Ferrari C.: Che cosa sono le neuroscienze sociali. Carocci 2022.
16. Fossa F., Schiaffonati V., Tamburrini G. Automi e persone. Introduzione all’etica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e della Robotica. Carocci, Roma 2021.

Other texts can be substituted for the above ones upon agreement with the teacher.



2. Exam for 6 Credits

Students taking the exam for only 6 Credits at the oral examinations will have to report about the following book:

Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori, Milano 2022.

The course aims to trace the stages of the genesis and evolution of economic policy from the English Industrial Revolution to the 2008 crisis, focusing on the formation processes of the major capitalist systems in Europe and beyond.

The Industrial Revolution
Economic thought from Smith to Friedman
Hegemony and crisis of the capitalist system
Economic policy and the social question.

Attending students:

M. Franzini, Politica Economica, Egea, Milano 2014.
A. Roncaglia, Breve storia del pensiero economico, Laterza, Roma 2016.

plus a further book:

F. Hayek, Liberalismo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2012
K. Marx, Introduzione alla critica dell'economia politica, Quodlibet Macerata, 2010.

Non-attending students

Q. Slobodian, Globalists. La fine dell’impero e la nascita del neoliberalismo, Meltemi, Milano 2021

The course is an introduction to central themes and problems in philosophy of science and theory of knowledge, such as scientific explanation, the nature of reasoning and hypotheses in the sciences, the cognitive content of theories, seen also in the light of key episodes in the history of science, and the demarcation between science, philosophy, religion and ethics. While in the first part of the course we will present these general issues using Okasha's text, in the second part we will make direct reference to texts and authors, reading and commenting on texts and articles by three important 20th century philosophers of science: Karl Popper Karl Hempel and Rudolf Carnap. The fundamental problem addressed by the course is the objectivity of scientific knowledge and thus an attempt to respond to Kant's question: what can we know?

Okasha S. Philosophy of science: a very short introduction
K. Popper Science and Philosophy
C. Hempel Philosophy of the natural sciences , some chapters available online on the professor's website
R. Carnap Philosophical foundations of physics available online on the professor's website

For physicists 3 CUF.
Okasha Il mio primo libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi
Carnap I fondamenti filosofici della fisica, Il saggiatore (capitoli disponibili sul sito del docente)

The course is organized into two main sections:

Section A - The digital world: A basic introduction. The concepts of information and digitization. Turing machine. Von Neumann machine. Computer. Networks: history, topology, protocols. Introduction to the world wide web and to mark-up languages; Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Strong and weak AI, Turing test, connectionism, neural networks. Internet as global medium and features of online communication.

Section B - Introduction to digital humanities: the definition of DH; forms of digital textuality; Introduction to textual encoding; Basic notions of Digital publishing; Digital tools for school and learning.

Section A is propedeutic to section B.

For Erasmus students and other foreign students wishing to have the final examination in English, the texts listed above can be replaced by (both)
The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars, edited by Eileen Gardner and Ronald G. Musto, CUP 2015
and
Information Literacy for Students, by Michael C. Alewine and Mark Canada, Wiley 2017

The precise calendar of the concert lessons of the Laboratorio di linguaggio musicale will be communicated on the institutional website of Scienze della Comunicazione

The teaching material, composed of introductory texts for listening to Western art music and abstracts and handouts relating to the introductory lessons that will gradually take place, will be made known during the course of the Laboratorio.

The course outlines the formation and development of the main capitalistic economies both in Europe and out of Europe between 19th and 20th centuries.

I. The first and second industrial revolution
- The preconditions for capitalist development in modern Eastern Atlantic, Centuries 17-18th.
- Expanded commercial agricultural revolution and industrial revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century.
- The process of capitalist concentration in the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution.
II. Economic development in the 20th century
- Industry, trade networks, financial markets on the eve of the First World War.
- The economic cycles in the post-war period
- The crisis of 1929 and national policies in the '30s.

Attending students:

Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000, Monthly Review Press, New York 2002.

plus a further book:

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, Baltimora 1979.

Photojournalism has made it possible to ‘see history’ and to define contemporary imagery. The course
aims to examine the evolution and present of journalistic photography journalism, its role as a ‘window on the world’ in modern visual culture and in the formation of ‘global consciousness’.

The activity of the major photojournalists, the relationship between myth and reality of the profession, between aspiration to objectivity and the compromises of the publishing market, between denunciation and censorship. From the golden age of magazines to war photoreports, to the crisis of the profession and the new challenges of information by images, against the backdrop of the aestheticisation and decontextualisation of journalistic photography in the digital age.

Issues of digital manipulation will be addressed, as well as resources for debunking information ‘hoaxes’. It will take stock of how politics is photographed today, as an alternative to ‘spin doctor’ storytelling, as well as social phenomena, foreign affairs, the economy, the environment, showbiz and sport, with an emphasis on the ethics of photography, the main codes of ethics, legal regulations for the use of images and copyright.

The workshop will allow students to measure themselves directly with the work of the major photojournalists, reading events and mentalities emerging from the snapshots in a comparative way, so as to help consolidate knowledge and dynamics of the modern and contemporary age.

THE HISTORY OF PHOTOJOURNALISM TEXTBOOKS:
Fadigati, Neri. Il mestiere di vedere. Introduction to photojournalism. Pisa University Press, 2019

Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016


THEMATIC ESSAYS :
Dondero, Mario with Giordana, Emanuele. Lo scatto umano. Viaggio nel fotogiornalismo da Budapest a New York. Bari: Laterza, 2017

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004

Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018 (the essay can be replaced by pdf of the lectures)

Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001

Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002

Calabresi, Mario. Ad occhi aperti, Mondadori, Milan 2023

Pdf (or notes) of classroom lectures

The first part gives an overview on the concepts of gender and sexuality, with particular regard to the social constructivist approaches, queer studies and intersectional feminism perspective. The course aims to provide students with the methodological tools to analyse communication practices in various media (whether digital or not) from a gendered perspective. The second part is dedicated to lab activities and seminar with academic experts, students will be able to analyse different media materials and devices on the basis of what they have learnt during the first part of the course.

- D. Richardson (2015), Conceptualising Gender, in V. Robinson & D. Richardson (eds), Gender and Women’s Studies, Palgrave, pp. 3-22
- A.L. Tota, A. De Feo, L. Luchetti (2023), Inquinamento visuale. Manifesto contro il razzismo e il sessismo delle immagini, Mondadori, Milano
- S. Capecchi (2014), Methodological problems in gender and media research, Qual Quant, 48, pp. 837–844.

For students who have included Sociologia della pubblicità in their syllabus, the text to be studied in place of A. L. Tota, A. De Feo, L. Luchetti (2023), Inquinamento visuale. Manifesto contro il razzismo e il sessismo delle immagini, Mondadori, Milano, is as follows:
- Manolo Farci, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (a cura di) (2022), Media digitali, genere e sessualità, Mondadori, Milano

The course aims to provide conceptual and historical tools around a specific topic in the philosophy of action: habitual actions. The first module aims to provide a synthetic overview of philosophical theories on habit and habitual actions in correlation with the contemporary debate. The second module will focus on the specificity of habitual actions, on which philosophy, including analytical philosophy, has only recently resumed its attention, in close dialogue with psychology, sociology and neuroscience. To this end, a number of doctrines that provide key elements for reflection on the relationship between action, intentionality, automatisms and habits will be examined, including the Aristotelian and pragmatist doctrines.

For Erasmus Students:
D.U. 1:
C. Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
Ch. S. Peirce, The Fixation of Belief, any edition

D.U. 2:
B. Pollard, “Habitual Actions”, in T. O’Connor, C. Sandis (ed. by), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 74-81
B. Pollard, “Identification, Psychology, and Habits”, in New Waves in Philosophy of Action, edited by J. Aguilar, A. Buckareff and K. Frankish, 8 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 81–97
A. Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. Hill and Wang, 2010 (limited to chap. V).

Along with an overview of the essentials of contemporary journalism, the program includes the formation of working groups dedicated to the three major themes on which the workshop activities are most specifically focused: 1) The environment: climate change and biodiversity; 2) Narrating sports; and 3) What we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence. Each lecture will include practical exercises. Several experienced journalists in different branches of the profession will speak during the workshop.

1) Facts, news, news (definitions, examples); newsworthiness; news construction
2) Speed and duration: hard, soft, breaking, slow
3) Multiplication of sources and verification tools, rights and duties of journalists
4) The investigation and reportage
5) The interview
6) Around and beyond current affairs. Commentaries, columns, reviews
7) Forms and styles of written journalism: paper and web
8) Doing journalism with images: photos, videos, instagram
9) Doing journalism through voice: podcasts, audioseries, radio
10) Collective analysis of final group papers: The environment: climate change and biodiversity
11) Collective analysis of final group papers: Narrating sports
12) Collective analysis of final group papers: What we talk about when we talk about AI

Each student must choose one subject from the three proposed topics and read IN FULL the book indicated for that topic:

The environment: climate change and biodiversity
Rudi Bressa, Trafficanti di natura. Il commercio illegale di specie selvatiche che minaccia la biodiversità (e tutti noi), Codice, 2023.

Narrating sports:
Federico Ferrero, Parlare al silenzio. La mania di raccontare il tennis, ADD, 2024.

What we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence
Mafe de Baggis e Alberto Puliafito, In principio era Chat GPT. Intelligenze artificiali per testi, immagini, video e quel che verrà, Apogeo, 2023.

Information theory and coding, elaboration and data structuring.
Introduction to programming languages, in particular the Python language and the NLTK tool

slides and handouts available on the course webpage https://sites.google.com/view/intro-info-rm3/home

The course aims to provide a critical understanding of the historical development of the main themes, problems and models of scientific explanation of behavior and psychological processes, from the earliest naturalized conceptualizations of mind and behavior to experimental psychology and contemporary neuroscience. The evolution of the sciences of behavior, mind, and neuroscience will be discussed in its relationship to the history of philosophical ideas and other human sciences such as sociology and anthropology, in its close intertwining with the natural and biological sciences, and situated in the context of concrete historical transformations of material, economic, and technological kinds.
The course will also examine the history of the cultural and moral impact of developments in the behavioral sciences and neurosciences with special emphasis on the applications of neuroscience in the social and economic spheres, and neuropsychopharmacological and neurotechnological applications in the 20th century.
Within the framework of this course, teaching aims to provide:
1) an organic knowledge of the main research programs, concepts and problems of the mind sciences, experimental psychology and cognitive sciences;
2) the ability to contextualize, analyze, and critically interpret the ideas and models of explanation of the mind sciences also in relation to other research disciplines, material history, culture, ethics, and technological evolution;
3) the historical and theoretical tools for understanding the transformations of psychological and scientific models of cognitive and communication processes.
4) the lexical and conceptual tools necessary for the study of the history of the sciences of the mind and useful for acquiring good analytical and argumentative skills in written and oral form.

Part 1) General history of the mind sciences:
I) History of science and history of psychology 1. Why study the history of the mind sciences 2. Historiography of science: continuism and scientific revolutions 3. Normal science and paradigms 4. Historiography of psychology and neuroscience.
II) The long philosophical past 1. Early psychological problems 2. The problem of the soul in classical thought 3. Psychology from classical thought to Christianity 4. From the Arabs to the Renaissance 5. The change in the conception of man with Humanism and Renaissance 6. Descartes 7. Rationalism and empiricism 8. From Descartes to the “idéologues” 9. Kantian interdiction
III) The birth of experimental psychology: from Helmholtz to Wundt 1. The birth of experimental psychology 2. Helmholtz: specific nervous energy and unconscious inference 3. Ewald Hering's phenomenological hymnatism 4. Wilhelm Wundt and physiological psychology 5. Titchener and North American structuralism
IV) The reaction to Wundt in Europe and America 1. Brentano and the Brentanians 5. American functionalism, between evolutionism and pragmatism
V) Gestalt psychology 1. The beginnings 2. The laws of Gestalt 3. The isomorphism 4. The field model 5. Rise and diaspora
VI) The psychodynamic perspective and psychoanalysis 1. Introduction 2. From organicistic to psychodynamic conception of mental illness 3. Janet's theory 4. Psychoanalysis from Freud to the 1950s 5. Jung's theory 6. Adler's theory 7. Psychoanalysis themes of the second twentieth century and new themes 8. Phenomenological psychiatry 9. Theories of personality 10. Integrated models between health and pathology of the mind
VII) The behaviorist perspective I. Introduction 2. American psychology at the beginning of the century: structuralism and functionalism 3. Behaviorism from Watson to the 1950s 4. Skinner and the behaviorist utopia 5. Operationism in psychology 6. Personality, psychopathology and social learning in the behaviorist perspective
VIII) The cognitivist perspective 1. Introduction 2. The study of cognitive processes: from the Würzburg school to Bartlett 3. Theories of intelligence 4. Theories of psychic development 5. Piaget's theory 6. The probabilistic and ecological theories of mental processes 7. Cognitivism 8. Cognitive science
IX) The cultural-historical perspective 1. Introduction 3. The cultural-historical theory of mind from Vygotsky to the 1960s 4. Activity theory 5. Social constructionism. Cultural psychology
X) The biological and neuroscientific perspective 1. Introduction 2. Animal and comparative psychology. Ethology 3. Research on brain function in the early twentieth century 4. Bechterev's reflexology 5. Pavlov's theory of higher nervous activity 6. Holistic theories of mind and brain functioning in the early twentieth century 7. Hebb's neuroconnectionism 8. Research on brain function and behavior: 1950-70 9. Lurija's theory of functional brain systems 10. Cognitive, affective and social neuroscience.
XI) The contemporary debate 1. Crisis of theories or crisis of psychology 2. Empirical verification in psychology 3. Common sense psychology and alternative psychologies 4. The primacy of neuroscience 5. The discomfort of psychotherapy 6. Psychology and contemporary society.

Part 2) Monograph
This part of the program aims to critically illustrate the history of the biomedical concept of drug addiction/addiction as a disease/pathology of the brain

Luccio R. (2013). Storia della psicologia: un’introduzione. Roma- Bari: Laterza (capitoli: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 paragrafi 5.1 e 5.5; 6).
Mecacci L. (2019). Storia della psicologia dal Novecento a oggi. Roma- Bari: Laterza (capitoli: 3; 4; 5; 6 paragrafi 1,3,4,5; 7; 8).
Stefano Canali, Cosa sono le dipendenze, Carocci, in corso di stampa

The main lines of Italy’s history from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. The module aims to tackle, with a reading of the long run, the most important issues in the history of Italy from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. Attention will be devoted to the features of the Italian political system and to the electoral events.

Alberto M. Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
Aurelio Lepre e Claudia Petraccone, Storia d'Italia dall'Unità a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia Repubblicana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021.

The course will analyse the history of radio and television during the 20th century, with particular reference to the Italian context.
The course will propose a history of radio and television media in which an internal dimension (relating to technologies, broadcasting, programmes, languages, etc.) will be integrated with an external one (relating to the relationship between the mass media and the politics, economy, culture and societies of the Italian context).
Main topics addressed during the course:
1) Beginnings of radio in Italy in relation to other experiences at an international level.
2) Relationship between radio and the fascist regime.
3) Radio diffusion and listening in Italian society (1920s-1940s)
4) Radio's role in World War II.
5) From EIAR to RAI. Radio in post-war Italy.
6) The advent of television in Italy. Corporate, social, political, cultural aspects.
7) The RAI of Ettore Bernabei (1961-1974).
8) The free radios.
9) From RAI monopoly to duopoly.
10) TV and radio in 1980s Italy.
11) The political-media consolidation of Berlusconi's system.
12) From analogue to digital.
13) Internet, TV and radio.

The course syllabus consists of the two following textbooks:

- Andrea Sangiovanni, Radiodays. La radio in Italia da Marconi al web, Bologna, il Mulino, 2024 (pp. 1-224, the whole volume)

- Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (pp. 1-320, the whole volume).

GENERAL notions: a) Elements of public law; b) Freedom of manifestation of thought and personal rights; b) Freedoms of information in the constitutional framework; c) Limits to freedoms of manifestation of thought; d) The right to report news, criticism and satire.
INSTITUTIONAL PROFILES: The governing and guarantee bodies of the information and communication system.
SECTORS: a) Regulation of the press and of the journalistic profession; b) Radio and television; c) Entertainment; d) Telecommunications; e) The regulation of the Internet.
THE TRANSVERSAL ISSUES: a) Confidentiality and privacy; b) The information and communication of public administrations; c) Political communication.
Modalità di valutazione delle conoscenze

R. Zaccaria, A. Valastro, E. Albanesi, Diritto dell'informazione e della comunicazione, WK - Cedam, Padova, 2023 (except chapters 6, 9 e 14).

GENERAL NOTES: a) Elements of public law; b) Freedom of manifestation of thought and personal rights; b) Freedoms of information in the constitutional framework; c) Limits to freedoms of manifestation of thought; d) The right to report news, criticism and satire.
INSTITUTIONAL PROFILES: The governing and guarantee bodies of the information and communication system.
SECTORS: a) Regulation of the press and the journalistic profession; b) Radio and television; c) Entertainment; d) Telecommunications; e) The regulation of the Internet.
THE TRANSVERSAL ISSUES: a) Confidentiality and privacy; b) The information and communication of public administrations; c) Political communication.

R. Zaccaria, A. Valastro, E. Albanesi, Diritto dell'informazione e della comunicazione, WK - Cedam, Padova, 2023 (esclusi i capitoli 6, 9 e 14).

The course first aims to provide a historical and conceptual overview of the research program known as "cognitive science," presenting its ontological (what are the objects of cognitive science?) and epistemological (how can we acquire knowledge about cognition?) assumptions.
Then some specific topics will be examined, such as the debate on basic emotions, neuroimaging techniques, and developments in artificial intelligence.
Whenever possible, each lecture will be opened by the presentation of a "paradigmatic" experiment or model. Its theoretical assumptions as well as its influence in the subsequent debate will then be made explicit.

For those attending:
* lecture content
* materials provided by the lecturer

For those non attending:
* M. Marraffa, Percezione, pensiero, coscienza Passato e futuro delle scienze della mente, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2019.

Anthropological mutation or end of the world?
Pasolini, De Martino and the metamorphosis of everyday life.

The course will be divided into two parts. The first part can be thought of as a general introduction to Pasolini's work. The second as a comparative discussion on the theme of anthropological mutation. In the first round of lectures, poetic texts, narrative works, essays, articles and films will be analyzed, reconstructing the itinerary that led Pasolini to focus on the theme of anthropological mutation. Special attention will be given to the last phase of his artistic work, through a cross-reading of essays (Scritti corsari, Lettere Luterane, Descrizioni di descrizioni), the novel Petrolio and the film Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma. In the second round of lectures, we will instead work on the theme of anthropological mutation, comparing Pasolini's analysis with that of other contemporary authors and artists. We will read passages from Ernesto de Martino's The End of the World and then broaden the discussion to other theoretical perspectives straddling theory, cinema and art. Among the authors discussed: Gunter Anders (Man is Outdated); Jean Baudrillard (The Consumer Society; America); Fredric Jameson, (Postmodernism); Peter Sloterdijk (Spheres); Yuval Noah Harari (From Animals to Gods); David Graeber (Magic and Revolution); Fritjor Capra (The Turning Point). Novels and films discussed: Norman Mailer, The White Negro; Lars Von Tryer, Melancholia; Cormac Mc.Carthy, The Road; Annie Ernaux, The Years; Werner Erzog, The Cave of Lost Dreams; Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer.

Saggi:
E. de Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, Einaudi, Torino 2019.
P.P. Pasolini, Scritti corsari e Lettere Luterane (qualsiasi edizione).

Romanzi:
C. Mc Carthy, La strada, Einaudi, Torino (2006)
A. Ernaux, Gli anni, L'orma, Roma (2015)

Film:
L.V.Trier, Melancholia (2014)
C.Nolan, Oppenheimer (2023)

First and foremost, the course aims to provide an overview of the main aesthetic categories--from the beautiful to the ugly, from the interesting to the Kitsch, from the sublime to horror and terror--to assess their relevance in contemporary art practices.
In addition to this, we will explore - in general - prehistoric Venuses, the role of women in prehistory, and the conception of love between tradition and innovation.

Francesca Iannelli: Dissonanze contemporanee. Arte e vita in un tempo inconciliato. Quodlibet 2010 (up p. 206).

Thomas Cirotteau, Eric Pinkas & Jennifer Kerner, Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women, Legend Press 2022.

Paul A. Kottman, Love as Human Freedom, Stanford University Press, 2017

Digital platform, data extraction and Artificial Intelligence: a critical view

The success of next-generation artificial intelligence (from the 2010s onwards) is based, among other things, on the vast availability of data. The advent of platforms has made it possible to obtain large amounts of personal data to organize in order to guide the representation of people's lives and behaviors, making it possible to predict their future preferences for future decisions. This course aims to analyze the tools for sharing information online to highlight the risks and opportunities.
The revolution in communication technologies is going through a phase of great transformations, where the partially open spaces of the early days have been replaced by private walled gardens. In these, users are welcomed and simultaneously retained. The activity of data mining, currently known as Big Data, i.e., the extraction of valuable information from what is directly or indirectly made available by users, has now become one of the central elements of network organization. This poses significant issues regarding privacy, as well as the model of knowledge that is activated in decision-making, which is not limited to marketing alone.
Big Data and algorithms build correlations, regularities, and quantifications to propose interpretations of social phenomena based on mathematical automatisms. However, the course will reveal that it is an illusion to think that an automatic understanding of habits and events can be objective and neutral. Artificial intelligence technologies aim to define what has been and anticipate what will be, but they were invented and developed by human beings and retain their genius, instability, biases, and often even arrogance. Moreover, the predictions rely on the assumption that the past is a good anticipation of the future.
Recent developments in artificial intelligence applied to human activities have three areas of intervention:
1. Automatic decision-making in uncertain contexts related to people's lives.
2. Image recognition capabilities, particularly regarding people's faces, and also the emotional expressiveness that may seem to derive from it.
3. The production of artificial content involving new techniques of generative, foundational, and multimodal artificial intelligence.
These developments present us with new challenges that society must address from a primarily political perspective. We need to decide how we want to coexist with these tools and how we want to imagine the hybrid future that these devices entail.
The course aims to identify the strategic issues in these areas and undertake a work of information literacy and cultural critique of the intelligence model proposed by the AI sector.
The course also focuses on the basic elements of information, AI, and media literacy to understand what is at stake in terms of freedom and control regarding the use of digital platforms for all types of activities, including those based on data interpretation within the realm of artificial intelligence.

Numerico T. (2021) Big Data e algoritmi, Carocci, Roma.
Crawford K (2021) ATlas of AI. Power, Politics and the planetary cost of artificial intelligence, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Goals
What is self-control and what is emotion regulation? How do they work; what psychological and brain mechanisms do they depend on? Why is voluntary control of psychological processes, such as staying focused, resisting distractions, managing a negative emotion, restraining brooding or the mind's tendency to wander, so difficult? And why does voluntary control of actions often fail? That is, for what reasons do we fall back into habits we no longer want to have, into different forms of addiction, toward psychoactive substances, behaviors, emotionally destructive relationships? And for what reasons do we so frequently fail to contain an inappropriate impulse or expression of emotion that we know is potentially harmful?
Are there techniques, training, practical exercises for developing self-control, regulating emotions more effectively, governing our habits? What psychological and brain mechanisms are they based on? How are they performed and what evidence of effectiveness exists in the scientific literature?
The Course, aims to provide participants with knowledge of the main theoretical elements and models of explanations of the processes of self-control and emotion regulation, between neuroscience, psychosocial science and philosophy.
At the same time, the Course aims to teach exercises and techniques useful for improving self-regulatory capacity, including several Mindfulness-based practices, illustrating their scientific basis and experimental verification of effectiveness.
At the end of the Course, the student should know and understand the main explanatory models of self-control and emotion regulation and will have a basic mastery of the most popular and scientifically validated techniques, exercises and trainings for cognitive enhancement, self-control and emotion regulation.

Program

1. General neuroscience principles for understanding self-control and emotions.
- Brain and mind. Between biological evolution, heredity, environment and experience
- The maturation of brain circuits of emotions and voluntary control of behavior
- Attention, working memory, self-control
Exercises:
- How do you feel? Description of affective states and enhancement of emotional literacy
- The experience of (dis)control of the mind

2. We become what we repeatedly do: the plasticity of the brain and behavior
- How the neuron and neurotransmission work
- Neuroplasticity and learning
- The different types of associative learning
- Construction and fixation of habits and automatisms
Exercises:
- Exploring memory
- Training attention with breathing

3. What is an emotion?
- Emotions as adaptive programs/ Emotions as constructs
- The main theories of emotion
- Human history and the evolutionary incongruence of emotional programs
Exercises:
- Basic meditation
- Well-remembered and reactivated well-being
- Naming emotions (Strengthening vocabulary of emotions)


4. Emotions Regulation
- Outlines of the psychobiology of emotions
- Emotions and language, Recognizing and naming an emotion as implicit emotion regulation
- The different possible strategies of emotion regulation, adaptive/ dysfunctional
- Learning and modification of emotional response styles
Exercises:
- Introduction to body scan
- STOP technique - Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed

5. Emotions and stress
- Brief history of the concept of stress, from pathophysiology, to the cognitive dimension of emotions
- The mechanisms of stress
- The impact of chronic stress on the brain and cognitive and executive functions
Exercises:
- Measuring perceived stress
- Relaxation training
- Diaphragmatic breathing
- Gratitude journal


6. Cognitive training and contemplative practices. Mindfulness-based practices: scientific evidence and general introduction
- What is Mindfulness
- Risks and consequences of chronic distraction and Mind wandering
- Mind wandering and negative mood
- Mindfulness and emotion regulation
- Mindfulness and neuroplasticity
Exercises:
- Basic Mindfulness Meditation
- Meditation in motion


7. Voluntary control of behavior: how it works, how it discharges, how it is enhanced
- The neural basis of self-control
- Attention and self-control
- Self-control and ego depletion (Ego depletion)
Exercises:
- Self-affirmation;
- Implementation of intentions
- Mantra Meditation

8. Voluntary control of behavior: how to strengthen it
- Self-control can be trained and enhanced
- Physical Exercise as a form of training self-control
- Ego depletion, Mindfulness and other exercises to train the “muscle” of self-control
Exercises:
- Basic Mindfulness Meditation
- Mindfulness meditation on emotions

9. Prosocial behaviors, cognitive empathy
- Prosocial behaviors, executive functions and self-control
- Prosocial behaviors, psychological health and well-being
- What is empathy 1: Cognitive empathy and brain correlates
Exercises:
- Developing empathic communication: The technique of Reflective Listening;
- Empathy Training


10. Prosocial behaviors, affective empathy and compassion
- What is affective empathy and brain correlates
- Empathy as embodied simulation of others' emotions
- Neuroplasticity and the prosocial brain
Exercises:
- Compassion meditation
- Feeling connected

Stefano Canali, Regolare le emozioni. Teorie e metodi per lo sviluppo e il potenziamento dell’autocontrollo. Carocci, Roma, 2021. Mandatory
The adopted text is essential for taking the learning progress tests after each lecture and for the final test, all questions will be formulated on the contents of the adopted text

The course aims to develop methodological competences in the communication and social sciences. The first part of the course will examine research design in the social sciences, differentiating between qualitative and quantitative methods.
The second part of the course will outline the main approaches and strategies of research in the communication sciences, with a focus on qualitative and creative methods for social research.

FIRST PART
- Wendy Griswold (2009), Un framework metodologico per lo studio della cultura, in M. Santoro, R. Sassatellin(a cura di), Studiare la cultura. Nuove prospettive sociologiche, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 253-285


SECOND PART
- Mario Cardano, Luigi Gariglio (2024), Metodi qualitativi. Pratiche di ricerca in presenza, a distanza e ibride, Carocci, Roma
- Alberta Giorgi, Micol Pizzolati, Elena Vacchelli (2021), Metodi creativi per la ricerca sociale. Contesto, pratiche, strumenti, il Mulino, Bologna (Up to and including Chapter 7).

a) Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis, Milano, Mondadori, 2019

b) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio, edited by Walter Siti, Milano, Garzanti, 2022

c) Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Alfabeto Pasolini, Roma, Carocci, 2022

d) Vedere, Pasolini, edited by Andrea Cortellessa and Silvia De Laude, Vicenza, Ronzani, 2022 + Andrea Cortellessa, Una ragione in più per andare all’Inferno. Vedere, Pasolini, Roma, Treccani, 2025

e) to give a context in 20th century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, quarto volume: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012

The course is intended to provide an introduction to contemporary debates on the main contributions to theoretical-political research in the field of feminism and gender studies. It consists of a series of lectures dedicated to fundamental voices and positions to orient oneself in the constellation of feminisms, accompanied by workshop and group activities.

Lucy Delap, Feminisms: A Global History, Pelican 2021
+ the materials relating to the workshop meeting(s) chosen for the focus study (the detailed bibliography relating to the workshop meetings will be shared in February)

For Erasmus students it is possible to write the final paper in English (or French)

The seminar addresses issues related to the territory and the city. The story of cardinal concepts such as cities, communities, habitats, nature, territory, landscapes, and projects will be presented, discussed and updated, from different perspectives: philosophy, art, political theory, sociology, history, geography, architecture, law, economics, political ecology, communication.
By january 2025 the general programme will be published.

A bibliographic selection accompanying the lecture topics will be provided by January 2025

Within a unifying evolutionary theoretical framework, the course deals with the leading topics related to the cognitive underpinnings of important human faculties, providing an up-to-date overview on the state of the art and the mainlines of investigation. The course begins with an overview of ideas leading to evolutionary theory, its developments and the related key notions and mechanisms of evolution, also clearing misunderstandings related to this theory. The second part of the course will focus on the application of the evolutionary theory to psychology, through the analysis of the scientific developments of evolutionary psychology and the explanations provided to account for the development and functioning of relevant human faculties.
Overall, to explore the main adaptive functions of our minds and behavior, the course will be organized into the following contents:

- What evolution is (and isn’t)
- Key concepts of evolutionary theory (e.g., adaptation, variation, natural selection, sexual selection)
- Evolutionary steps of the origin of modern humans
- Evolutionary psychology: principles, methods of investigation, applications
- Modularity and learning
- Evolutionary accounts of cooperation, conflict, emotions, language
- Coevolution and niche construction
- Current debates in evolutionary psychology

- Pievani T. (2013). Anatomia di una rivoluzione. La logica della scoperta scientifica di Darwin. Mimesis, Milano.
- Cardaci M. (2012). Psicologia evoluzionistica e cognizione umana. Il Mulino, Bologna [Chapters IV, V and VI]

The course deals with the in-depth study of the main theoretical models used for the sociological analysis of the advertising. The first part of the course aims to provide students the analytical tools necessary for analyzing the advertisements and the relationship with their target (with a special focus on the possible kinds of miscommunication that can occur at different levels). The second part of the course aims to point out the social values that an advertisement can help to convey and/or to establish in the public discourse of a certain nation or geographic area - with a specific focus on those values that from an ethical point of view may be considered more problematic for a society, as they are potentially discriminatory and detrimental of human dignity (such as racism, sexism, pollution and the systematic destruction of natural resources and the environment, the violation of human rights, speciesism, etc.). The third part of the course will analyse the deep and various transformations taking place in this field due to the influence of social media. In addition, a further specific focus will be on culture jamming and other forms of cultural resistance (such as anti-brand movements, boycott, etc.).

One to be chosen among the following programmes:

PROGRAMME 1)
a) Tota A.L, De Feo A., Luchetti L. (2023), Inquinamento visuale. Manifesto contro il razzismo e il sessismo delle immagini, Milano, Mondadori.
b) Moreover, the following readings:

1. Barthes, Roland (1964). Rhetoric of the Image. Image‐Music‐Text (Translation 1977). S. Heath ed., London: Fontana, pp. 32‐51.
2. Merskin, Debra (2004). Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising, in “American Behavioral Scientist”. Vol. 48, pp. 119‐128.
3. Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo (1996). Modality: Designing Models of Reality. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, pp. 154‐174.
4. Danesi, Marcel (2013). Semiotizing a product into a brand, in “Social Semiotics”, 23:4, pp. 464-476.
5. Lekakis, J. Eleftheria (2017). Culture jamming and Brandalism for the environment: The logic of appropriation, in “Popular Communication”, 15:4, pp. 311-327.

PROGRAMME 2)
a) Tota A.L, De Feo A., Luchetti L. (2023), Inquinamento visuale. Manifesto contro il razzismo e il sessismo delle immagini, Milano, Mondadori.
b) Moreover, the following readings:

1. Barthes, Roland (1964, ed. it. 1985), Retorica dell’immagine, in L’ovvio e l’ottuso. Saggi critici III, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 22-61.
2. Capecchi, Saveria (2011). Il corpo erotizzato delle donne negli spot pubblicitari, in POLIS, XXV, 3, pp. 393-417.
3. Danesi, Marcel (2009), Brands. Il mondo delle marche (only chapter 3 “L’immagine di marca”), Roma, Carocci, pp. 49-86.
4. Kopytoff, Igor (2005). La biografia culturale degli oggetti: la mercificazione come processo, in E. Mora (a cura di), Gli attrezzi per vivere. Forme della produzione culturale tra industria e vita quotidiana, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, pp. 77-111.
5. Packard, Vance (1957, ediz. it. 2015), I persuasori occulti (only chapters 2, 3, 4 e 5), Torino, Einaudi, pp. 12-53.

Please, note: Students who have included Gender and Media in their curriculum should study, instead of “Inquinamento visuale. Manifesto contro il razzismo e il sessismo delle immagini”, the book: Barthes R. (1957, ed. it. 2016), “Miti d’oggi”, Torino, Einaudi.

Design, Drafting, and Revision of the Bachelor’s Thesis.
The course will cover the following topics:
1. Thesis Project: selecting a topic; conducting research; selecting, analyzing, and cataloging sources; the overall structure of the work.
2. Drafting the Paper: the characteristics and components of argumentation; citations and the use of sources; various types of notes and their application; compiling the bibliography.
3. Revision of the Work: grammatical and orthographic accuracy; coherence of structure, content, and style; principles of text formatting.

P. Italia (con la collaborazione di D. Bennati e M. Giuffrida), Scrivere all'Università. Manuale pratico con esercizi e antologia di testi, Firenze, Le Monnier Università 2014.