STUDY PROGRAMME
Film & Animation

AFAM CODE
ABTS56

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Disciplines of sociology

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Sociology of new media

CREDITS
4

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course offers the students an introduction to the sociology of communications as applied to new media, going over the main historic-evolutional phases of the digital revolution. The main phenomena linked to old and new media will be analysed: cinema, series, gaming and social media (Tik Tok, Instagram and Twitch). One of the course's main goals is to question the "media debate", and to unveil its rhetoric as well as ideological structures, leading the students into analysing the elements that make its technical and cultural complex.

This teaching is made of a single module of 4 CFA.

Successful students will be able to:

• Know the media transformation in the second post-war era

• Know the theories behind the phenomenology of new media

• Phenomenology of New Media

• Influence of 2.0 media on the artistic production

• Perspectives of 3.0 media

This is a theoretical course.

During the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects that will be developed:

• Front lectures

• Individual study or research

Assessment criteria may include:

• Oral discussion

Further details on the specific tests will be given by each professor.

The final grade for this course will result from the weighted average of its modules.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.