Communications Culture

The course provides an analysis of the different cultures of communication, as intersection of classical issues of communication studies and the cultures characterizing communication in the media and in everyday life. Nowadays, communication is paramount in different areas of social life. The course focuses on the social actors of communication represented in terms of 'difference', both as cultural difference and gender difference. The aim of the course is to develop the critical and analytical capacities of the student in intercepting and interpreting the role of such differences in communication strategies. Indeed, communicative competences are crucial tools in everyday life and in front of current institutional grammars of communication. The course will offer the development of all the relevant competences to orient oneself in a heterogeneous field of communications' cultures, in agreement with the general targets of the B.A. Comunicazione e Società.

At the end of the course the student should have developed knowledge and understanding of the communicative dynamics in professional, productive and everyday life situations; Applying knowledge and understanding, with an autonomous and critical evaluation of the characteristics of mediate and interpersonal communication in different fields of social life. Autonomy of judgement, and students' communicative capabilities will be developed by discussions and working papers.The final exam aims to verify the expected learning outcomes in respect to the students' capacity of understanding, applying knowledge, developing a critical analysis of the theoretical perspectives introduced by the course.