Communication, technologies and digital culture

The module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies, through a periodization that goes from the 40s to today, retraces the evolutionary stages of the birth, diffusion and affirmation of the Italian cultural industry system, both in terms of production and consumption. In order to provide a theoretical framework, into the module of Cultural Industry and Media Studies is deepened the transition from the paradigm of modernity to that of late-modernity, with particular attention to the relationship between the media evolution and some foundational categories of the subject's experience such as time, space, identity, community, work. The module of Laboratory of Cultural Products Analysis provides a detailed analysis of some audiovisual documents, important to understand the deep connection between the media and the socio-cultural evolution of Italy and practical exercises on the topics dealt with under the frontal lessons. 1. Knowledge and understanding: the course aims to deepen the theories of the cultural industry and to analyze characteristics and the evolution of the different sectors that compose it, from cinema to television, from publishing to radio to digital media. Particular attention is reserved to the specificities of the "Italian case", with a view to interconnections between the media system, politics and the socio-cultural context. 2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the course aims to apply the knowledge learned, regarding the study of the various sectors of the cultural industry, through the analysis of audiovisual documents, in order to understand how the media have told the process of industrialization of the Country and how, vice versa, the media system has evolved in parallel to social, political and cultural dynamics. 3 – 4 – 5. Transversal skills: the course aims at acquiring critical judgment skills and an analytical and transversal study approach, through laboratory activities that include moments of confrontation in the classroom on specific case studies and on-going exercises on the topics covered in class.