The course aims of analyzing the History of Journalism milestones – from the XIX century journals to Internet – and es-pecially the history of the Italian Journalism in the last twenty years.
The course is divided into two modules tightly integrated: the first module will analyze the complexity and plurality of the many national journalisms; the second module will focus on the history of the Italian Journalism especially through specific case studies.
Through the study of the press and the broadcast journalism the students will retrace, analyze and comment some fam-ous and particular cases.
The course aims therefore at making the students able to analyze and evaluate the proposed matters and, above all, to evaluate the means and instrument necessary for the construction of the public opinion.
The expected learning outcomes are:
• Knowledge and understanding of the communication and media systems;
• Ability of arguing the Journalistic matters;
• Ability of applying the theoretical knowledge and techniques learned in order to write and develop journalistic texts.