Contemporary Italy and the Information System

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The course is dedicated in particular to students enrolled in the specialist degree in Italian Philology. Its fundamental goal is to present the peculiarities of Italian journalism and, more generally, of the information and communication system, in parallel with the main political, cultural, social and economic developments that have characterized the history of the twentieth century.

The course is basically divided into three sections. In the first one the main focus is dedicated to the genesis of journalism in Italy, to the role played on this front by the city of Milan and to the overall evolution of the information system (press and radio), from the origins to the mid-fifties These topics will be deepened in parallel with the economic, social, political and cultural changes experienced by Italy in this same period; the second one will focus on the birth and development of television and its languages, with particular reference to the role and political-editorial structure of RAI, to the subsequent appearance of private broadcasters and to the analysis of the main political and social changes that have characterized the Italian history, between the Fifties and Eighties; in the last one a specific focus will finally be given to the complex political transition of the Nineties, in parallel with the advent of pay-TV and the rise of the digital and IT revolution, destined to affect so profoundly the technical, cultural, semiotic and deontological identity of the journalistic profession, to threaten its very survival.

Bibliografia del corso:

• AA.VV. (2003), L’Italia repubblicana nella crisi degli anni Settanta. Atti del ciclo di convegni, Roma, novembre e dicembre 2001, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli

• AA.VV. (2014), L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, Carocci, Roma

• Bergamini Oliviero (2006), La democrazia della stampa. Storia del giornalismo, Laterza, Roma-Bari

• Chiarenza Franco (2002), Il cavallo morente. Storia della RAI, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Colarizi Simona (1997), Storia dei partiti nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma

• Crainz Guido (2005), Storia del miracolo italiano. Culture, identità, trasformazioni tra anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, Donzelli, Roma

• Garofalo Damiano (2018), Storia sociale della televisione in Italia 1954-1969, Marsilio, Venezia

• Gervasoni Marco (2010), Storia degli anni Ottanta. Quando eravamo moderni, Marsilio, Venezia

• Gozzini Giovanni (2000), Storia del giornalismo, Bruno Mondadori, Milano

• Isola Gianni (1998), L’ha scritto la radio. Storia e testi della radio durante il fascismo (1924-1944), Bruno Mondadori, Milano

• Lanaro Silvio (1997), Storia dell’Italia repubblicana. L’economia, la politica, la cultura, la società dal dopoguerra agli anni Novanta, Marsilio, Venezia

• Landoni Enrico (2009), Un periodico sportivo: “Il Calcio Illustrato”, in “Forme e modelli del rotocalco italiano tra fascismo e guerra”, a cura di Raffaele De Berti e Irene Piazzoni, collana “Quaderni di Acme” della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano n. 115, Cisalpino - Monduzzi Editoriale, Milano, pp. 343-375

• Landoni Enrico, Gli atleti del duce. La politica sportiva del fascismo 1919-1939, Mimesis, Milano-Udine

• Mammarella Giuseppe (2012), L’Italia contemporanea (1943-2011), Il Mulino, Bologna

• Monteleone Franco (1999), Storia della radio e delle televisione in Italia, Marsilio, Venezia

• Murialdi Paolo (2005), Storia del giornalismo italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna

• Occhetta Francesco (2015), Le tre soglie del giornalismo. Servizio pubblico, deontologia, professione, UCSI, Roma

• Pedroni Marco (2016), Meso-celebrities, Fashion and the Media. How Digital Influencers struggle for Celebrity, in “Film, Fashion & Consumption”, vol. 5, n. 1, pp. 103-121

• Ridolfi Maurizio (2010), Storia dell’Italia repubblicana, Bruno Mondadori, Milano

S1A_W05 - has a basic knowledge of man, in particular as an entity constituting social structures and the principles of their functioning, as well as operating in these structures

S2A_W05 - has extended knowledge about man as a creator of culture, deepened in relation to selected areas of human activity

Teaching Methodology

All the topics will be introduced and addressed initially in the form of lectures, using text and audiovisual files, before being discussed in the classroom, in forums and small workshops, animated by groups of students, who can count on in-depth reading, made available by the teacher. On this front the objective is twofold: to implement the interactive figure of the course and then put the students in a position to improve and exercise their exhibition skills (public speaking).

Basic requirements: good knowledge of Italian, written and spoken; good reading skills and approach to written sources.

Evaluation criteria:

a) Successful attendance at lectures and active participation in classroom discussions

b) Short individual interviews, aimed at verifying the general knowledge of the fundamental topics addressed during the course and the ability to study them in a critical spirit, taking advantage of the group discussions addressed in the classroom and the teaching materials provided by the teacher.

Readings: notes on the history of journalism, on the history of political parties and movements and on the history of sport and sports journalism directly provided by the teacher, in a framework for sharing teaching materials.

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