Workshop: Anti-Mafia Journalism
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Several are the objectives of this workshop. First of all, to promote awareness of the role of journalism to face mafia-style crime. To this end, to provide elements of the history of anti-mafia journalism while also teaching the varied potential of the different genres and languages of journalism: news and investigation, historical reconstruction and reporting, interview and storytelling, through different 'media', ranging from traditional written text to multimedia products, with an eye to international trends. Finally, orienting students towards forms of enhancement of their talents: writing skills, general knowledge, specific knowledge, human and civic sensitivity, creativity. The workshop will take place through frontal lessons, discussions and comparison of individual experiences, testimonies from professionals in the field.
Expected learning outcomes
With a 75% attendance and the delivery of two papers (out of a total of two), students will have to show that they know how to grasp and tell a news story, master the specific language, move with proactivity in the collection of sources.
The exercises and the lessons will be carried out in presence or at distance, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
The exercises and the lessons will be carried out in presence or at distance, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
Lesson period: First trimester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First trimester
Course syllabus
The anti-Mafia journalism workshop is one of the most significant fruits of the strand of studies on organised crime that has been developed since 2009 at the Faculty of Political Science, having been set up in 2010-2011 at the request of a group of students, some of whom later became professional journalists.
The workshop is part of that area of study of the mafia phenomenon that deals with the role of the press and in particular investigative journalism in combating mafia power and its forms of conditioning society and politics.
The workshop will consist of ten meetings-lessons in the first term (period: September-December, at the teaching area in Via Conservatorio), in which theoretical lectures will be followed by professional testimonies from journalists working on the subject, and writing or visual documentation tests, then discussed collectively.
The workshop has a maximum number of students admitted (30).
The workshop is part of that area of study of the mafia phenomenon that deals with the role of the press and in particular investigative journalism in combating mafia power and its forms of conditioning society and politics.
The workshop will consist of ten meetings-lessons in the first term (period: September-December, at the teaching area in Via Conservatorio), in which theoretical lectures will be followed by professional testimonies from journalists working on the subject, and writing or visual documentation tests, then discussed collectively.
The workshop has a maximum number of students admitted (30).
Prerequisites for admission
There are no special prerequisites.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions and comparison of individual experiences, professional testimonials, team work
Teaching Resources
Readings and articles will be assigned during the course of the workshop
Assessment methods and Criteria
Compulsory attendance
Approval of exercise
Pass/not pass
Approval of exercise
Pass/not pass
SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION - University credits: 3
Laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Splendore Sergio
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Splendore SergioProfessor(s)