Degree Course: Communication, technologies and digital cultures Syllabus for A.Y. 2022/2023  

The course main aim is to support students in the study of history of journalism, from the first forms in roman times (Acta Diurna, as a form of managing consent and the relation with the people), to contemporary digital platforms.
Students are expected to understand and get to know the evolution of journalism, its media and its main actors.
The course will support the understanding of links and cultural configurations all through journalism's historical evolution.
Students will be expected to practice thier ability to read, undertand and summarize texts, both from the past and the present.
Key ideas will be discussed, such as objectivity, truth, news, disinformation, fake news.
The role of advertising and public opinion will also be extensively discussed.

The course is dedicated to the study of the relationship between the juridical sphere and the religious phenomenon, and aims to focus and analyze the identity elements, cultural and religious, characterizing the structure of contemporary state political systems.
The course also aims to examine the relationships between the great world religions, also in light of the processes of globalization of law.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS

1) Knowledge and understanding
Analysis of the relationship between law and religion in its essential profiles, with the aim of introducing the student to a basic knowledge of the dynamics characterizing the phenomenon in the contemporary age.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding
Development of the ability to read and study legal norms, and in particular the constitutional provisions, in order to be able to apply them to the concrete cases of religious phenomenology.

3) Making judgments
Stimulus to the critical evaluation of the contents of the law in force in religious matters in order to grasp, with autonomy of judgment, its peculiarities, also in the perspective of the relationships existing between the different confessional legal systems and contemporary state systems.

4) Communication skills;
Development of communicative and linguistic skills related to legal issues inherent to the religious social phenomenon.

5) Ability to learn (learning skills)
Personal study of religious problems of particular legal importance, aimed at deepening their knowledge and their possible solutions, also in light of the systematic identification of the fundamental rules in force on the subject.

The course aims to provide students with tools for analyzing the languages ​​and formats that characterize contemporary television production, starting from the study of basic theories on the medium, passing through the transformations undergone with the advent of digital, up to the point of examining the television medium as we know it today, which survived the power of the Net and indeed developed precisely by virtue of it.

1) Knowledge and understanding.
Develop knowledge of general culture with particular reference to history, and to scientific, philosophical, sociological and psychological development.


2) Applied knowledge and understanding.
Reinforce general logical understanding and analysis skills of the components that form conceptual systems, noting the application consequences.

3) Autonomy of judgment.
Practice the ability to identify strengths and critical points of the proposed application situations and evaluate the best solutions.

4) Communication skills.
Improve the ability of analytical and synthetic expression and description of general scenarios.


5) Ability to learn
Facilitate the ability to understand abstract concepts, deductive and inductive skills through case analysis and application exercises

The course aims to provide theoretical and methodological knowledge about the organization of geographical spaces and about geographical paradigms, rethinking the relations between society and environment.
In particular, the objectives are:
1) knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the geography
2) applying knowledge and
understanding of geographic lexicon
3) communication skills and critical elaboration of the argumentation and the logical organization of the geographical discourse;
4) making judgements and critical reading of a geographical essay.
5) learning skills

The aim of the course is to analyse and fix the typical characteristics of digital cultures, in the light of the birth and development of their main communication platforms.
For this reason, theoretical and practical tools will be provided:

- Understanding the experiential dimension of digital cultures;

- Define and interpret the typical media scenario of digital cultures;

- Understanding the impact of connective technologies on the transformation of the cultural industry, on relational and identity practices;

- Analysing social, cultural, economic and professional practices related to the media of the digital age.

Conoscenze e comprensione:
- conoscere le caratteristiche delle tecnologie per la riproduzione del sapere nel loro rapporto con la formazione e i processi educativi;
- comprendere le dinamiche e le differenze tra culture orali, culture scritte e culture multimediali e di rete;
- saper analizzare le pratiche comunicative, di produzione e consumo di informazione e contenuti in relazione alle attività della formazione e ai modi di concepire e praticare tali attività;
- acquisire solide conoscenze relative al ruolo dei media come matrici dell’esperienza e della conoscenza, e al ruolo delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione nei processi di produzione, archiviazione e gestione della conoscenza;
- comprendere in che misura e in che forma i diversi modi della comunicazione sviluppati nel tempo abbiano influito sui modi attraverso cui gli uomini hanno rappresentato il compito di dare forma alle esperienze e alle conoscenze altrui e sulle concrete pratiche educative;
- riconoscere le influenze culturali e materiali delle cornici comunicative e delle infrastrutture tecniche prevalenti in una data epoca, anche in relazione allo sviluppo dei sistemi educativi e scolastici;
- comprendere le varie declinazioni del software culturale e delle piattaforme incaricate di gestire la produzione di contenuti culturali e destinati alla formazione, ai percorsi educativi e alla didattica digitalmente aumentata;
- saper analizzare la relazione tra la penetrazione sociale delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione e i mutamenti dei sistemi educativi e della formazione.

Capacità di applicare conoscenze e comprensione:
- saper analizzare il rapporto tra media e forme dell'apprendimento, con particolare attenzione alla comprensione dei processi di comunicazione, educazione, costruzione delle identità, così come delle dinamiche dei comportamenti sociali mediati dalle tecnologie digitali;
- saper gestire la produzione di risorse educative con la consapevolezza del ruolo di un determinato mezzo comunicativo sull'organizzazione e la configurazione del sapere che riproduce e mette in scena;
- saper utilizzare e gestire le piattaforme per la didattica e per la formazione online;
- saper applicare concretamente le conoscenze relative agli ecosistemi digitali, essendo in grado di pianificare un percorso formativo che ne sfrutti adeguatamente le caratteristiche.