SOCIAL EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIVE PROCESSES

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2021/2022
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2022/2023
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
8
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
64
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (64 hours)
Requirements: 

None

Final Examination: 
Orale

Oral exam. During the text, the candidate is required to answer four questions. The final mark will be based on the following criteria: 60% accuracy and quality of answer, 30% ability to motivate statements, 10 % ability shown during exam.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The aim of course is to give students the opportunity to identify new elements that are in the communication processes related to particular social events. Selected events, precisely because of the decisive influence of such events on civil society.

he analysis of the political and social fallout that some historical events on the community and how their narrative contributed to the change of communication processes. Specifically, the communication processes related to:
Res gestae divi Augusti.
The Constitutio Antoniniana.
The Synod of the Corpse.
Clermont Appeal.
Shakespeare's Characters and their realism.
Trial of Galileo.
The taking of the Bastille.
The Killing of Lincoln.
The Libération of Auschwitz.
The Killing of JFK.
Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer and their media messages.
The perverse charm of Impostor
The problem of the Double and its repercussions as a reason for social unrest
The Suicide as a social Event
The role of public opinion and political power in the Russier case
Construction of the Berlin Wall.
The third party will have the ambition to recall the rich debate, in its political and social repercussions within the Supreme Court on the possible limits to be placed on the protection of pornography.
Judgments analyzed:
Jacobellis vs Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964).
A book named John Cleland's memoirs of a woman of plesure vs Attorney General of Massachusetts
Paris Adult Theatre vs Slaton
Reno vs Aclu

Convenzionale

Frontal lessons, with the support of videos

The professor is available to meet with students after each lesson, without any appointment. For any further information related to the examination, contact via email: luca.daris@uninsubria.it

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