Media and Contemporary Culture
0
2021-2022
01010525
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Exposure of subjects in lesson (overviews presented in PowerPoint) that shows the essential texts and authors in each issue. Disclosure to students of varied background texts (theoretical, practical and assessment). Commented viewing of films and documentaries suitable for themes.
Learning Outcomes
As an initial course of theoretical and practical training is intended that the / a student acquires the basic knowledge on how the media are present in contemporary culture and how define media literacy. With this knowledge easily systematize and organize the best skills and knowledge in these areas. Skills and knowledge that may develop in a future continuing studies, and / shall provide a better understanding, timely and expert on the impact and role of journalism, communication and media in the cultural phenomena of contemporary mediated societies.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1.Concepts of culture and civilization. The contemporary culture as a "civilization of the show."
2.Media and Literacy.
3.Rethinking culturally the Media: from Mass Media to Cultural Industries;from Sphere, Opinion and Public Space to Mediapolis.
Head Lecturer(s)
Horácio Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho Marques Bicho
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
Briggs, A. & Burke, P. (2002). De Gutenberg a Internet Una historia social de los medios de comunicación. Taurus.
Carpentier, N. (2017). Media e Participação. Media XXI.
Debord, G. (2012). A Sociedade do Espectáculo. Antígona.
Featherstone, M. (2007). Cultura de Consumo e Pós-modernismo. Studio Nobel.
Frau-Meigs, D., Velez, I. & Michel, J. F. (Eds.) (2017). Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe: Cross-country comparisons. Routledge.
Hutington, S. (1997). O Choque de Civilizações. Objetiva.
Mattelart, A. (1997). A Comunicação-mundo: História das ideias e das estratégias. Instituto Piaget.
Newman, N. et al. (2020). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Silverstone, R. (2010). Media and Morality: On the rise of the mediapolis. Polity Press.