Theories of Communication

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Most sessions will consist of the lecturer's lectures based on powerpoint presentations, seeking students to discuss the slides in the presentation. In addition, different visual and documental study materials such as photographs, documentaries, films and news will be shown, whenever appropriate.

Learning Outcomes

To provide students with an understanding of multiple approaches to the study of communication, reinforcing the emphasis on relational theories of communication. The course also offers communication theories that complement the theoretical approaches to communication course taught in other disciplines, thus allowing students to have contact with a wider range of different perspectives in thinking about communication.

Students should be able to: recognize various dimensions of interpersonal communication and media, distinguishing between technical and interactional aspects; deconstruct the naturalization of communication in distinguishing between technical and interactional aspects; to be familiar with some of the main foundations of communication theories.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Theories and models of communication

2. The informational model

2.1 Communication as message transmission: the Shannon and Weaver model

2.2 Fundamentals and Elements of Information Theory

2.3 Information theory today: logarithms and everyday life

3.1 Communication as a whole: Palo Alto's theories

3.2 An invisible college: proxemia

3.3 Paul Watzlawick's pragmatics

3.4. Communication as interaction: George Herbert Mead

3.5 Communication and everyday life: Erving Goffman

4. Theories of Effects: George Gerbner and the theories of cultivation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rita Joana Basílio de Simões

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Bibliografia geral:

 

Esteves, J. P. (2002) [org.]. Comunicação e Sociedade. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

Holmes, D. (2005). Communication Theory. London: Sage.

Littlejohn, S. (1982). Fundamentos Teóricos da Comunicação Humana. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores.

Mattelart, A & Mattelart, M. (2002). História das Teorias da Comunicação. Porto: Campo das Letras

Watzlawick et al. (1972). Pragmática da comunicação humana. São Paulo: Cultrix McLuhan.

McQuail, D. (2003). Teoria da Comunicação de Massas. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Serra, J. P. (2007). Manual de Teoria da Comunicação, Covilhã: LABCOM.

Fleur, M. D. & Rokeach, S. B. (1993). Teorias da comunicação de massa. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores.

 

Bibliografia específica:

A fornecer, para cada sessão individual.