Enrollment year
2021/2022
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/11 (CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2024 - 24/05/2024)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Learning outcomes
To learn the methods of analysis and construction of the news, through collective work of discussion and finally of writing. Learn the methods and practices for the construction of an editorial-journalistic output.
Course contents
This course is split into two sequential sections
Information, culture, perspective, knowledge. The case of cancel culture.
The relationship between history and memory (and oblivion). The relationship between memory and places. The relationship between see and know. The relationship between knowledge and power.
These four steps provide an opportunity, concerning the construction of culture in the community through public discourse: to walk through the phenomenon of cancel culture as a case study, in order to analyze not merely its most resounding manifestations as much as its conditions of possibility.
Cancel culture aims at an interdiction of thought, through a modification of the aesthetic landscape, which attempts to alter the memory, history, perspective and knowledge of a community. In a nutshell: its identity.
Cancel culture is a (geo)political act that can only flourish in a context of hyper-information. But is the notion of information a frame in itself sufficient to understand this contemporary model of culture? Or perhaps we need other categories of analysis to understand it?
The first part of the course will focus on the philosophical, semiotic and social foundations that make possible phenomena of attempting cultural modification, such as cancel culture, starting with the correct definitions of often misunderstood terms.
Teaching methods
Lectures, classroom exercises, meetings and discussions with experts
Reccomended or required readings
To prepare for the exam:
G. Bosticco e Marco Dotti (a cura di), Costellazioni. Sette lezioni sulla comunità. Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2021.
G. Bosticco, La cancel culture nel discorso geopolitico contemporaneo. Roma, Edicusano, 2023.
Simone Weil, Attenzione e preghiera, a cura di Marco Dotti. Meltemi, Milano 2024 (in printing)
Those who will not participate in the writing for the exam, will have to integrate the previous text with:
Guido Bosticco e Giovanni B. Magnoli Bocchi, Come i social hanno ucciso la comunicazione. Milano, Guerini, 2020.
Assessment methods
The final exam consists in the discussion of a group work around the concepts of the course, used as a categories of analysis and in-depth analysis of current events, with an international perspective.
The final lessons of the course are dedicated to the collective processing (like an editorial meeting) about the different topics and to the assignment of the papers. In any case, each group will agree with the teachers the topic of the final work.
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