2019/2020

2019/2020

DM270

SPS/04 (POLTICIAL SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (24/02/2020 - 29/05/2020)

9

54 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

CHIAPPONI FLAVIO (titolare) - 9 ECTS

For students enrolled in CIM, the course is part of the basic knowledge, provided along with the other courses of the first year. Interest in politics and mass media analysis, including web 2.0, will help students to successfully attend classes. For students enrolled in Political Science degree, the course completes basic knowledge in the field of political science topics and is recommended once they have passed the Political Science exam.

To know and understand the limits that define the field of political communication; to know and understand the distinctive features of the political study of political communication, with respect to the different disciplinary approaches; to know, understand and communicate the fundamental explanatory theories of political communication; to know how to analyze political communication in connection with the relevant political-institutional factors (regimes, roles, situations); to autonomously evaluate the framework of empirical researaches aimed at understanding political communication according to the canons of empirical political science.

The course aims to provide a basic understanding of political communication as a specialized branch of political science. In this respect, the main contents of the course concern:
- the definition of political communication;
- the distntive traits of the political approach to the study of political communication;
- Political communication in mass democracies, in relation to the different actors (leaders, pressure groups, citizens);
- political communication in authoritarian and totalitarian systems;
- the political communication of transnational opinion movements and terrorist groups.

The teaching methods are aimed at the active involvement of the students. Therefore, the mainly frontal lessons will be accompanied by seminar discussions, in which students will be invited to participate. Moreover, the in-depth study of specific dynamics of the Italian political system will provide a constant reference for the illustration of the theoretical notions developed in the lessons.

F. Chiapponi, "Comunicazione politica. Un approccio teorico", Milano, Mondandori, 2020.

In the light of the educational objectives outlined above, students are given a written test, which consists of both "closed" questions, which explicitly provide alternatives from which to choose the correct answer, and "open" questions, in which the mode of response are not specified in advance. Therefore, the test aims to ascertain both the skills learned during the course, and the ability to process independently the contents of the teaching, so it is considered an appropriate tool to verify the achievement of teaching objectives.

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