ALBERTO MARINELLI

Welcome
For the Academic Year 2025/26, I will be teaching the following courses in the second semester:

• Audience and Media Platform - LM Media, Digital Communication and Journalism - second year - Media Studies curriculum - (9 CFU)
• Sociology of the Consumer Experience - third year L Public and Corporate Communication - (3 CFU)
• Module on the Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes (3 CFU) within the course of PSYCHOPEDAGOGICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES for the degree in Sciences of Technical-Assistance Health Professions - Rome Umberto I Polyclinic. This course is also cross-listed as a module of the ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION course for the degree in Sciences of Diagnostic Technical Health Professions - Degree Course A - Rome Umberto I Polyclinic.

All information (syllabus, texts, etc.) can be found in the Course Catalog under the respective course descriptions.

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In the A.Y. 2024-25, I taught Audience and Media Platforms (9 CFU) with my colleague Enzo Risso.
The course is scheduled for the second semester of the second year of the LM Media, Digital Communication and Journalism - Specialization: Media Studies.
The course is also cross-listed for the LM in Writing and Media Productions (cinema, theater, dance) for 6 CFU.
Required texts for non-attending students (9 CFU):

1. Andò, R., & Marinelli, A. (2018). Television(s): How the television experience changes with convergent technologies and social practices. Guerini Scientifica.
2. J. Fiske (1989), “Moments of Television: neither the Text nor the Audience”, in Seiter, E., H. Borchers, G. Kreutzner and E.-M Worth (eds), 1989. Remote Control: Television, Audiences and Cultural Power. London: Routledge: pp. 56-78 (Italian translation in R. Andò (ed.) Audience Reader pp. 51-63).
3. Abercrombie N. and B. Longhurst (1998), “Spectacle and Narcissism”, “Imagination and Resources” in, Audiences. A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination, London: Sage: pp. 77-120 (Italian translation in R. Andò (ed.) Audience Reader pp. 101-125).
4. A. Marinelli, E. Firth (2024), “Datacasting. The experience of the algorithmic flow in the streaming platform ecosystem and on TikTok”, Sociologia della Comunicazione, vol. 1 – 2024 pp.
5. M. Scaglioni (2024) Italy according to Auditel. Forty years of research on TV and media audiences, Bologna: il Mulino.
6. Risso, E. (2023). The consumer who narrates themselves. Milan: Guerini e associati.

Required texts for non-attending students (6 CFU) - Connected and social Television (cross-listed from the LM in Writing and Media Productions (cinema, theater, dance)):

• Andò, R., & Marinelli, A. (2018). Television(s): How the television experience changes with convergent technologies and social practices. Guerini Scientifica.
• Lobato R., (2020), Netflix Nations. Geography of digital distribution, Minimum Fax.
• Lotz A. (2022), Pirates, cannibals, streaming wars, Einaudi, Torino.

The link to the course's Google Classroom is:
https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/MjMwODc3MDAxNzda

Also, in the second semester of the A.Y. 24-25, I taught a module of the PSYCHOPEDAGOGICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES course for the degree in Sciences of Technical-Assistance Health Professions - Rome Umberto I Polyclinic. This course is also cross-listed as a module of the ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION course for the degree in Sciences of Diagnostic Technical Health Professions - Degree Course A - Rome Umberto I Polyclinic.
The link to the Google Classroom for the health professions course is:
https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/MjEzODM4MTkxNzla