Course 4: New Media and Trans-National Identities in the Age of Globalization
Course convenor: Prof. Giovanni Gozzini
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)
☎ +39.0577.234.765
@ giovanni.gozzini[at]unisi.it
Lesson Hours: Wednesday 10-12 (Room Seminario)
Office Hours: tba
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)
☎ +39.0577.234.765
@ giovanni.gozzini[at]unisi.it
Lesson Hours: Wednesday 10-12 (Room Seminario)
Office Hours: tba
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The aim of the course is to provide an overview of current transformations of the international media system, with a particular insight of the cultural role played by the so-called “social media” like Facebook. Two specific issues are addressed: how globalization modifies personal and collective identities and how non-Western cultures tackle the question of Human Rights. The topics outlined by the following syllabus involve different disciplines: social and economic history, intellectual history, sociology.
COURSE ORGANIZATION
The course is organized in seminars with active participation of all the students.
CLASS MATERIAL
All readings for the sessions, homework assignments, data sets, overhead projector slides used during the lectures, and an assortment of links to other political science research sites will be made available and circulated by the instructor. All students attending class must have a functioning email address and check it regularly.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1. The transformation of Internet
Week 2. Google: the new Encyclopédie?
Week 3. Social media and social network: the case of the Arab Springs
Week 4. How Facebook is changing our minds
Week 5. Paradigms in history and sociology of international migrations
Week 6. Trans-national identities
Week 7. Digital divide within countries and between countries
Week 8. Citizen journalism and other examples of new media applications
Week 9. Human Rights I: the emergence of a transnational culture (prof. Marcello Flores)
Week 10. Human Rights II: Problems of universalism (prof. Marcello Flores)
READINGS
Meeting 1:
C. Anderson - M. Wolff, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet!, «Wired», September 2010
Meeting 2:
S. Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shakes Our Lives, Simon & Schuster, New York 2011
K. Auletta, Effetto Google. La fine del mondo come lo conosciamo, Garzanti, Milano 2010 (New York 2008)
J. Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, Portfolio, New York 2006
Meeting 3:
Y. Courbage - E. Todd, Le rendez-vous des civilisations, Seuil, Paris 2007 (Engl.tr.: A convergence of civilizations: the transformations of the Muslim societies around the world, 2011)
M.L. Haas - D.W. Lesch (eds.), The Arab Spring. Change and Resistance in the Middle East, Westview Press, Boulder CO 2012
C. Merlini-O. Roy (eds.), Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 2012
Meeting 4:
N. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Norton, New York 2010
Meeting 5:
W. Kymlicka, La cittadinanza multiculturale, il Mulino, Bologna 1995;
D. A. Hollinger, Postethnic America, Beyond Multiculturalism, Basic Books, New York 1995
Meeting 6:
A. Portes, Introduction: The Debates and Significance of Immigrant Transnationalism, «Global Networks», 1, 2001, n.3, pp.181-94
R. Bauböck - T. Faist (eds.), Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories, and Methods, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013
Meeting 7:
Internet World Stats (www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm)
S.Leckner -U.Facht, A Sampler of International Media and Communication Statistics, Nordicom-University of Gothenburg, Göteborg 2010
Meeting 8:
L. Jr. Downie-M.Schudson, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, «Columbia Journalism Review», 2009, 6, pp.28-51
M. Gaggi-M. Bardazzi, L’ultima notizia, Rizzoli, Milano 2010
D. Gillmor, We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, O’Reilly Media, Beijing-Sebastopol CA 2004
Meeting 9:
L. Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, Norton, New York 2007
M. A. Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Random House, New York 2002
Meeting 10:
M. Flores, The Story of Human Rights, Kingston University Press, London 2011
A. Neier, The International Human Rights Movement: a History, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2012
S. Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2010
The aim of the course is to provide an overview of current transformations of the international media system, with a particular insight of the cultural role played by the so-called “social media” like Facebook. Two specific issues are addressed: how globalization modifies personal and collective identities and how non-Western cultures tackle the question of Human Rights. The topics outlined by the following syllabus involve different disciplines: social and economic history, intellectual history, sociology.
COURSE ORGANIZATION
The course is organized in seminars with active participation of all the students.
CLASS MATERIAL
All readings for the sessions, homework assignments, data sets, overhead projector slides used during the lectures, and an assortment of links to other political science research sites will be made available and circulated by the instructor. All students attending class must have a functioning email address and check it regularly.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1. The transformation of Internet
Week 2. Google: the new Encyclopédie?
Week 3. Social media and social network: the case of the Arab Springs
Week 4. How Facebook is changing our minds
Week 5. Paradigms in history and sociology of international migrations
Week 6. Trans-national identities
Week 7. Digital divide within countries and between countries
Week 8. Citizen journalism and other examples of new media applications
Week 9. Human Rights I: the emergence of a transnational culture (prof. Marcello Flores)
Week 10. Human Rights II: Problems of universalism (prof. Marcello Flores)
READINGS
Meeting 1:
C. Anderson - M. Wolff, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet!, «Wired», September 2010
Meeting 2:
S. Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shakes Our Lives, Simon & Schuster, New York 2011
K. Auletta, Effetto Google. La fine del mondo come lo conosciamo, Garzanti, Milano 2010 (New York 2008)
J. Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, Portfolio, New York 2006
Meeting 3:
Y. Courbage - E. Todd, Le rendez-vous des civilisations, Seuil, Paris 2007 (Engl.tr.: A convergence of civilizations: the transformations of the Muslim societies around the world, 2011)
M.L. Haas - D.W. Lesch (eds.), The Arab Spring. Change and Resistance in the Middle East, Westview Press, Boulder CO 2012
C. Merlini-O. Roy (eds.), Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 2012
Meeting 4:
N. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Norton, New York 2010
Meeting 5:
W. Kymlicka, La cittadinanza multiculturale, il Mulino, Bologna 1995;
D. A. Hollinger, Postethnic America, Beyond Multiculturalism, Basic Books, New York 1995
Meeting 6:
A. Portes, Introduction: The Debates and Significance of Immigrant Transnationalism, «Global Networks», 1, 2001, n.3, pp.181-94
R. Bauböck - T. Faist (eds.), Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories, and Methods, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013
Meeting 7:
Internet World Stats (www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm)
S.Leckner -U.Facht, A Sampler of International Media and Communication Statistics, Nordicom-University of Gothenburg, Göteborg 2010
Meeting 8:
L. Jr. Downie-M.Schudson, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, «Columbia Journalism Review», 2009, 6, pp.28-51
M. Gaggi-M. Bardazzi, L’ultima notizia, Rizzoli, Milano 2010
D. Gillmor, We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, O’Reilly Media, Beijing-Sebastopol CA 2004
Meeting 9:
L. Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, Norton, New York 2007
M. A. Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Random House, New York 2002
Meeting 10:
M. Flores, The Story of Human Rights, Kingston University Press, London 2011
A. Neier, The International Human Rights Movement: a History, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2012
S. Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2010
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