Please refer to the syllabus on the course's website: https://digitalhumanities.site/syllabus/

- The “digital” of Digital Humanities.
- What is Digital Humanities? Can it be defined?
- The history of Digital Humanities (What is Digital Humanities? - Part II).
- What is ‘data’?
- Forms of data and data-sets.
- Data cleaning and manipulation.
- Presenting data. Data analysis.
- Reconsidering data manipulation. Missing data.
- Data visualization: history, methods, and tools.
- Text analysis and topic modeling; possibilities and drawbacks.
- Algorithms of textual analysis.
- Infographic: A history of data graphics.
- Introduction to HTML and CSS.
- Concepts of web design.
- Digital maps.
- GIS and digital gazetteers.
- Introduction to AI: From the first models to machine learning.
- Deep machine learning.
- An introduction to artificial neural networks.

All the materials are listed in the syllabus, which can be found here: https://digitalhumanities.site/syllabus/

Having as a background today's theories of subjectivity and political action, the course aims to critically and meta-critically analyze the relationships between mind, language and the state of advancement of information technologies given the "digital revolution". In the first part of the course we will examine the following topics: possible solutions of the mind-body problem; human and artificial intelligence; algorithmic rationality; intentionality of perception and action; language functions; language and meaning; to know and to interpret; free will and citizenship rights; ontology of power.In the second part of the course we will examine the following topics: philosophy and technology; politics and technology; anthropology and technology; reason, passion and the digital life; political responsibility and artificial intelligence; the post-heideggerian critique of technology.

1) John R. Searle, Il mistero della realtà, a cura di P. Di Lucia e L. Passerini Glazel, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2019 (ISBN 978-88-3285-070-3)
2) Roberto Finelli, Filosofia e tecnologia. Una via di uscitadalla mente digitale, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2022 (ISBN 979-12-5993-035-4)

Course Structure
The economy is rapidly evolving, leading to radical changes in the structure of many industrial sectors, which require a solid theoretical foundation for understanding. Therefore, the course is structured into three sections. In the first part, a modern approach to industrial economics will be offered, using tools from game theory. A comprehensive overview will be provided, covering the functioning of various markets. The topics will be systematically explained at the appropriate level of abstraction and generality typical of economic analysis, enriched with numerous examples drawn from real-world economics. The second part focuses on software and music as the two information goods industries that have undergone the most significant recent changes and therefore have dominated public debate. Since the digital economy has given rise to electronic intermediation, the course also considers the impact of e-commerce and intermediation on physical goods markets and the new copyright issues they raise. Finally, the third part of the course will be dedicated to the space economy: it is now evident that the exploration of deep space is becoming increasingly central in all countries, with the proliferation of private actors. The growth of space infrastructure is driving the creation of new services and the development of an increasing number of applications related to meteorology, energy, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, maritime, aviation, and urban development, creating new forms of economy that have direct implications for society. Moreover, space is, and is increasingly becoming, a strategic domain for defense, security, climate change, and connectivity. Therefore, the dynamics of the space economy market and the potential need for new regulations will be presented. The course will be a mix of theoretical analysis and case studies.

Calendar and Topics

Week 1 (Chapter 1 of the textbook and slides)
Introduction to Regulation Theory:
1. Market structure
2. Rent seeking
3. Capture theory
Competition and Monopoly: the two extremes of market performance
Further reading:
- Bianco, M., Giacomelli, S., & Rodano, G. (2012). Competition and regulation in Italy. Banca d'Italia. Questioni di Economia e Finanza, Occasional papers #123

Week 2 (Chapter 5 and 6)
Monopoly Power in Theory and Practice: Price Discrimination
Further reading:
- Arenson, K. W. (1997). "Fordham University to Give Tuition Discounts to Freshmen Who Commute." New York Times, October 22, A18.
- Leslie, P. (2004). Price Discrimination in Broadway Theater, The RAND Journal of Economics, 35(3), 520-541.

Week 3 (Chapter 7)
Oligopoly and Strategic Interaction: Introduction to Game Theory
Further reading:
- Darlin, D. (2005). Falling Costs of Big-Screen TVs to Keep Falling. New York Times, August 20.
- Morrison, S. A., Winston, C., Bailey, E. E., & Carlton, D. W. (1996). Causes and consequences of airline fare wars. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, 85-131.
- Maynard, M. (2002). Yes, It Was a Dismal Year for Airlines. Now the Bad News, NY Times.

Week 4 (Chapter 10)
Networks and Regulation Policies
Further reading:
- Niels, G., & Ralston, H. (2021). Two-sided market definition: some common misunderstandings. European Competition Journal, 17(1), 118-133.
- Alt, R. (2022). Electronic Markets on platform dualities. European Competition Journal, 17(1), 118-133.
- Gautier, A., & Lamesch, J. (2021). Mergers in the digital economy. Information Economics and Policy, 54, 100890.

Week 5 (Material distributed by the instructor, available on the course Moodle platform)
Special Topics:
- File sharing and music sales
- Copyright in the digital age
- Bilateral Markets and Electronic Intermediaries

Week 6: (Space Economy Commercialization available on Moodle)
Space Economy: from space exploration to the regulation of property rights and collision liability between economic growth and public benefits
Further reading:
- Denis, G., Alary, D., Pasco, X., Pisot, N., Texier, D., & Toulza, S. (2020). From new space to big space: How commercial space dream is becoming a reality. Acta Astronautica, 166, 431-443.
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition, Montjoye, Y., Schweitzer, H., & Crémer, J. (2019). Competition policy for the digital era, Publications Office.
- European Commission, EU Industrial Policy on Space.

Monica Auteri (a cura di) Regolazione e Concorrenza nell'era digitale: Mc Graw-Hill Education, Milano.
ISBN 9781307470765 (Note: This is a text created by McGraw-Hill Education with content drawn from various volumes, assembled for this course. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE ISBN)
2. Articles provided on the dedicated Moodle platform for the course.

The course aims to cover the following main thematic areas:

 corporate organisation, learning processes and organizational needs within an innovation-oriented organisation;

 the forms and models of Innovation;

 strategic innovation management: objectives, analysis and implementation of innovation strategies;

 digital transformation in public administrations.

L. Marchegiani, “Digital Transformation and Knowledge Management”, Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management, 2021

or

Melissa A. Schilling, “Strategic Management of Technological Innovation”, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, 2022.

The course offers an interpretative-methodological framework to the transport-territory economic relationship, based on the assumption that the transport system is a pre-requisite for the development of industrial and tourist activities. With this in mind, the course deals with the problems that arise in the study of the four main modes of transport, with the further objective of outlining the theoretical state of the art of this research field.

In more detail, the following topics are discussed: 1) Transport historical and geographical dimension - (Economy and transport in the twentieth century; The global development of transport; Congestion: consequence of the imbalance between modes); 2) Transport regulations - (Community legislation, Italian legislation, transport infrastructure as a natural monopoly, regulation of the infrastructure market as an agency problem, the natural monopoly structure, deliberative democracy and transport regulation); 3) Costs of transport systems - (opportunity costs, shadow prices, sunk costs, external costs, classification of transport costs, trends in transport costs, joint costs and associated costs in the provision of transport services; General cost of transport, costs of transport safety); 4) The analysis of the infrastructural supply - (Economic nature of the transport infrastructures; Infrastructural equipment: concept and purpose; The transport networks; Network economics; Infrastructure capacity analysis); 5) The maritime transport system - (The maritime transport market, The containerized maritime transport, The capacity of a port infrastructure, The analysis of port competitiveness, The operational costs of the maritime transport service, Perspectives of development of the Italian and European port); 6)
The railway transport system - (Italian railway transport, the network as a natural monopoly, the effects of the liberalization of railway transport, the de-regulation and liberalization, the costs of rail transport, the other transport systems with restricted driving); 7) The road transport system - (Roads, road transport, effects of upgrading urban transport infrastructure, an economic analysis of road congestion, market failures in road use and correction policies; Private cost, social cost of the road system); 8) Air transport systems - (Fixed installations in air transport; Air transport between regulation and deregulation; Air fleet; Operational capacity management and pricing techniques; Cost structure in the air sector; Chartering services; low cost carriers; the air transport production function); 9) The analysis of the transport demand - (Analysis of the demand for mobility; Models with discrete choice for the estimation of the demand for mobility; Conjoint analysis and estimation of the demand for mobility; Typologies and project of the surveys; The four-stage model for the estimation of the mobility application); 10) Transport pricing - (The allocation function of tariffs and the limits of traditional methods; Charging systems with excellent prices and discrimination; Transport rates, Ramsey of dynamic price regulation); 11) Evaluation of investments in the transport sector - (Analysis and experimentation of investments in the transport sector, Cost-Benefit Analysis (ACB), Evaluation of extra market assets, Multi criteria analysis).

Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M. (2023). Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight. Edward Elgar, UK. (Capitoli - 1,2,3,8,11,15, 16, 19, 21,23)

Recommended
Economia e politica dei sistemi di trasporto, 2008, Fabio Carlucci,Andrea Cirà, Franco Angeli, Milano.

For a long time, globalization was considered a hyperbole of connections between geographical and cultural spaces, emphasizing a possible erosion of social and spatial boundaries. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, the so-called global processes have exacerbated differences, reinforcing border areas, strengthening borders, and social belongings.
Putting at the core these anthropological issues, the course a) offers concepts and methods of social and cultural anthropology b) develops basic knowledge and analytical tools which c) will help build a critical gaze on contemporary conditions of vulnerability and discrimination. On this background, the course's second part analyzes the ways in which globalization processes affect the production of racial, gender, cultural, and class discriminations, as well as their intersections. This perspective on the intersectionality of oppression allows to explore the construction of the social hierarchies on differences, political vulnerability, and forms of resistance.
The ethnographic method and ethnographic examples will encourage a participatory method to understand the ‘otherness’, becoming a helpful means to develop a comparative and non-ethnocentric perspective, together with micro-macro levels of analysis.

1) Palumbo Berardino, Pizza Giovanni, Schirripa Pino (2023). Antropologia culturale e sociale. Concetti, storia, prospettive. Hoepli.
Parte Prima. L’antropologia e i suoi campi (pp. 1-38).
Parte Seconda. Panoramica storica degli studi di antropologia culturale e sociale (pp. 39-114).
Parte terza. Parole chiave per un’antropologia contemporanea. Corpo (pp. 134-149); Femminismo e antropologia (pp.165-177); Genere (pp. 178-188); Mobilità (pp. 256-270); Resistenze (pp. 271-285)

2) A text of your choice (the books can be read in their original version - where available):

Bourgois, Philippe e Schonberg, Jeff (2011). Reietti e fuorilegge. Antropologia della violenza nella metropoli americana. DeriveApprodi, Roma.
Fusaschi, Michela. (2011). Quando il corpo è delle altre. Retoriche della pietà e umanitarismo-spettacolo. Bollati Boringhieri.
Holmes, Seth M., (2023). Frutta fresca, corpi spezzati. Braccianti migranti negli Stati Uniti d’America. Meltemi.
Khosravi, Shahram (2019). Io sono confine. Eléuthera.

3) Reference articles and suggested lecture notes (will be indicated and uploaded by the teacher)

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

The characteristic of big data- Programming models for big data: Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark- Machine Learning algorithms. Apache Spark with R: sparklyr, dplyr, ggplot2.

Slides provided by the teacher

Jared Dean. Big Data, Data Mining, and Machine Learning: Value Creation for Business Leaders and Practitioners, 2014, Wiley.

Readings and lecture notes provided by the teacher.

Introduction to R e R Studio. Importing data. Basic graphs. Basics of descriptive data analysis. Linear models: analysis of variance and regression. Interactions and transformations, Generalized linear models: logistic regression and Poisson regression. Time series analysis: temporal autocorrelation and linear models with ARMA errors. Spatial statistics: spatial autocorrelation and linear models with SAR and CAR errors. Panel data: random effects and generalized linear mixed effects models.

Eric D. Kolaczyk , Gábor Csárdi (2014) Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R. Springer

PART 1: ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT

The extended economy
Environment and ethics
Economic growth, population growth and the environment
Sustainable development
The functioning of the markets and the causes of their failure
The failure of public intervention
Cost-benefit analysis
The evaluation of the interest for nature
Addressing uncertainty
Recourse to the market to protect the environment
The establishment of taxes for the use of the environment
Ecological taxes
Trade in environmental permits
Setting environmental standards
Renewable resources
Non-renewable resources

PART 2: INSIGHTS

Textbooks (not mandatory):
Turner R.K., Pearce D.W., Bateman I., Economia ambientale, il Mulino, 2003
Aprile M.C, Chiarini B., Economia dell’ambiente, Mondadori, 2019
Franzini M., Mercato e politiche per l’ambiente, Carocci, 2007
Panella G., Economia e politiche dell’ambiente, Carocci, 2010

Further texts (one book of your choice):
Beverina L., Futuro materiale, il Mulino, 2020
Bompan E., Brambilla I.N., Che cosa è l’economia circolare, Edizioni Ambiente, 2021
Butera F.M., Affrontare la complessità, Edizioni Ambiente, 2021
Carli B., L’uomo e il clima, il Mulino, 2017
Carraro C., Mazzai A., Il clima che cambia, il Mulino, 2015
Clô A., Energia e clima, il Mulino, 2017
Clô A., Il rebus energetico, il Mulino, 2008
De Paoli L., L’energia nucleare, il Mulino, 2011
Fazioli R., Lenza D., Appunti di Economia dell’Energia, Volta la carta, 2021
Lorenzoni A., Il risparmio energetico, il Mulino, 2012
Massarutto A., Un mondo senza rifiuti?, il Mulino, 2019
Menna P., Pauli F., L’energia solare, il Mulino, 2010
Ranci P. (a cura di), Economia dell’energia, il Mulino, 2011
Ranci P., Leonardi M., Susani L., Poveri d’energia, il Mulino, 2016
Raworth K., L’economia della ciambella, Edizioni Ambiente, 2017
Stahel W.R., Economia circolare per tutti, Edizioni Ambiente, 2019
Tagliapietra S., L’energia del mondo, il Mulino, 2020
Testa C., Elogio della crescita felice, Marsilio, 2020
Tinacci Mossello M., Politica dell’ambiente, il Mulino, 2008

The course analyzes a range of issues that are posed by the advent of new technologies and that involve the legal position of the private parties (nature of the assets, ownership, contract, privacy, personal identity, on line tort, inheritance of digital content), with particular reference to the protection of minors online in the digital age.

Diritto privato digitale, a cura di Ettore Battelli, Giappichelli Editore, 2022

Course contents
Module I: Specialty Languages
1. Las lenguas de especialidad
Denominaciones, definiciones y características generales
The horizontal dimension: el léxico y la terminología
The vertical dimension: textos, functions and niveles de especialización

2.El lenguaje jurídico-administrativo:
Origen y características generales
El léxico jurídico
Rasgos morfosintácticos
El estilo formulario
Nivel textual
Géneros textuales

4.El lenguaje de los medios de comunicación
Definición, características, funciones tendencias, géneros

5.El leguaje deportivo
Definición, características, tendencias, géneros

6.El leguaje turístico
Definición, origen, características, función, géneros

7.El leguaje advertising
Definición, origen, características, función, géneros

Reference text (Required):
Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci editore, Rome, 2009.

Module II: The political language.
1.El Lenguaje político
1.1. Origen y características
1.2. El léxico político
1.3. The political phraseology
1.4. Emisor y recipient
1.5. El contexto histórico
1.6. The retórica
1.7. Estrategias discursivas
1.8. Political persuasion
1.9. La descalificación y el insult
1.10 Tipologías de discursos: totalitarios, de crisis, de investidura

Module I
Maria Vittoria Calvi et al., Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci editore, Roma, 2009.

Module II
MESSINA FAJARDO L. A. (2021). Herramientas teóricas y prácticas para el estudio del discurso político. Mondalvia: Generis Publishing.

The course offers an overview of the impact of the digital revolution on the analysis of contemporary Anglophone literary texts. Through an interdisciplinary and multimedia approach, particular attention will be paid to the interrelationships between Black Music (Hip Hop and Techno) and African-American literature, in order to reconsider related socio-cultural phenomena and to reflect on the study of English in its linguistic varieties.

The study material will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Software R-studio and R: installation and main features. Project creation in R studio. First step with R: elementary operations, descriptive statistics, graphs. Statistical inference refresher. Sampling distribution, confidence intervals and tests. Environmental data. Maximum likelihood estimation. Linear models: parameter estimation, model selection and goodness of fit. Generalized linear models: parameter estimation, model selection and goodness of fit. Logistic regression. Poisson regression.

Carsten Dormann (2020) Environmental Data Analysis: An introduction with Examples in R, Springer