MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ITALIAN LITERATURE, MODERN PHILOLOGY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

LAI Franco Marcello

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites are not required

AF code:

A000307

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Conventional oral exam regarding the course topics.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course intends to provide the following formative objectives:
- insights on cultural bases of communication and on social acceptance of technologies;
- elements of social history of media and social history of technological innovation;
- media as form of consumption and instruments for enjoyment of cultural industry products;
- qualitative and ethnographic methodological elements for media studies.

Contents

The course concerns above all media according to the following contents:
- elements of social history of media and technological innovation in mass communication (XX and XXI centuries);
- ethnographic approach to the study of communication technologies
- social acceptance of communication technologies in various social and cultural contexts;
- technology and use of cultural industry products (music, cinema, etc.);
- mobile phones, computers, and Internet in the contemporary technology landscape;
- social uses of communication technologies in everyday life;
- storytelling in contemporary media.

Recommended Bibliography

ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) Gabriele Balbi, Paolo Magaudda, Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014 (pages 100-151).
2) Edgar Morin, Il cinema o l’uomo immaginario. Saggio di antropologia sociologica, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano (pages 15-167).
3) Franco Lai, Crudi e cotti. Antropologia del cibo nella fiction, Pàtron, Bologna, 2017 (in print).

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) Gabriele Balbi, Paolo Magaudda, Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2014 (the whole book).
2) Edgar Morin, Il cinema o l’uomo immaginario. Saggio di antropologia sociologica, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano (pages 15-167).
3) Franco Lai, Crudi e cotti. Antropologia del cibo nella fiction, Pàtron, Bologna, 2017 (in print).

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Large use of Power Point presentations and other audiovisual materials characterizes the course of Anthropology of media.

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Other courses

Course year: 1

MUSEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY
12 credits
CHILDREN LITERATURE AND WRITING
6 credits - Caratterizzante
CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE
12 credits - Caratterizzante
LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
12 credits - Caratterizzante
MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
FILM HISTORY AND CRITICISM
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa

Course year: 2

CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE
12 credits - Caratterizzante
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
6 credits - Caratterizzante
PHILOSOPHY OF ART AND LITERATURE
6 credits - Caratterizzante
HUMANISTIC COMPUTER SCIENCE
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa

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