Communication In-Depth Issues

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

This course mobilizes a set of methodological strategies that aim to promote the active participation of students in their training process, namely through the analysis and reflection, individual or in a group, of practical cases and bibliographic research. This course will include lectures, debates and conferences for researchers in the field of Communication Sciences, in order to discuss topics of the syllabus and develop critical analysis skills and interaction with peers.

Learning Outcomes

Critically map the field of Communication Sciences, identifying theoretical references that frame the problem to be investigated;
Reflect on the discourse of the media in the practices of signification and construction of identities in articulation with post-colonial criticism;
Recognize media literacy experiences, actors and contexts from the challenges of contemporaneity and network society;
Problematize the concepts of public space, civic participation and audiences from the approaches of modernity and post-modernity;
Discuss the impact of technologies on communication processes, media industries and contemporary society from the perspective of disruption.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Communication and Contemporary Society
a). Discourse and social construction of meaning
b). Media narratives and the communicative construction of subjects
c). Critical media literacies

2. Public Space and the Challenges of Contemporary
a). Information, symbolic power and public opinion
b). Participation, social movements and communication technologies
c). Media, audiences and audiences

3. Media, Network Society and Disruption
a). Intrusive interfaces and platforms
b). Technologies, media consumption and datification
c). Informational algorithms and disorders.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Research work: 80.0%

Bibliography

Chadwick, A. (2017). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. Oxford University Press.

Couldry, N., & Hepp, A. (2018). The mediated construction of reality. John Wiley & Sons.

Das, R., & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds.). (2018). The future of audiences: A foresight analysis of interfaces and engagement. Springer.

Frau-Meigs, D., Velez, I., & Flores, J. (2017). Public policies in media and information

literacy in Europe: Cross-country comparisons. London and New York:

Routledge.

Habermas, J. (1989). The structural transformation of the public sphere: An

inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Papacharissi, Z. (2010). A private sphere: Democracy in a digital age. Polity.

Thompson, J. B. (1995). The Media and Modernity: a Social Theory of the Media.

Cambridge: Polity.

Van Dijck, J., Poell, T., & De Waal, M. (2018). The platform society: Public values in a connective world. Oxford University Press.