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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Study of the goals of Social and Cultural Anthropology based on knowledge from the classical schools –authors and monographs–, the ethnographic method and the discipline’s main work areas (kinship, religion, economy and policy).
Introduction to the writing techniques and conventions of academic texts and to resources for their presentations and oral defences, especially regarding ICTs.Production of written texts and oral discourses in accordance with the various textual typologies.
Generalist and introductory approach to the main problems of contemporary and current philosophical debate, putting the focus mainly on its ethical, social and political implications.Special emphasis will be put on the problems relating to bioethics and cultural and gender diversity.
Information language traits and types.Information language and communication process.Structure of information language in news agencies, the press, radio, television, website and social media.Commonest mistakes in information language.Information language in the Style Guides of public and private journalism companies.
Panorama of the main currents and theories on media communication. Start of research in the media; Functional paradigm; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Theory of agenda setting; Silence spiral theory; Media and the social construction of reality; Birmingham School; Communication theories for development and social change. Post-truth and information disorder
Main concepts and dimensions of the Media and Information Literacy (AMI).Understanding the role and functions of the media in democratic societies.Reliability of sources.Duties, responsibilities and democratic control of public media.Critically assessing media content in the light of the media’s functions.Functions of journalism.Information plurality.Responsible journalism.Non-sexist journalism.Freedom of information and Freedom of the press.Disinformation and its responses: view and proposals from UNESCO and the European Union.Challenges and proposals from the World Summit on the Information Society.
General introduction to journalistic culture putting special emphasis on the journalistic genres; concept of genre and the main types: news, interviews, chronicles, opinion genres in the press, radio and on TV.Press, radio and TV writing in different genres.
Based on examples of historical and present projects and approaching from various areas and forms of expression, the subject aims to prepare feasible cultural projects of general interest in the current context.Every stage will be worked on: conception, documentation, production-creation, communication, dissemination, distribution, exhibition, sale and evaluation.
Introduction to the History of Communication.Definition, methodology and goals.Communication in the industrial revolution: (The abolition of distance: the telegraph, the telephone, the postal services.Development of the press: serious press and popular press.Creation of news agencies.Photography and history of the moving image). Mass media (The emergency of radio.Mobilisation of the press in the 1st and 2nd World Wars.Explosion of television.Public and private management systems of the new mas media).Digital revolution and knowledge society (The industry of communication and so-called technological enterprises as a factor of system development and crisis.Omnipresence of communication and globalisation of the information society.New technological illiteracy and digital gap: the explosion of access to information and production.World Summit on the Information society).
The aim behind this subject is the study of the mechanisms and narrative elements making up the construction of audiovisual narratives.The theoretical foundations of audiovisual narratives, knowledge and functionality of the basic elements in an audiovisual way; and aspects such as narrators, points of view, time and space; the reception of audiovisual narratives.
The subject will focus on analysing and understanding the historical development of the main impact of the great environmental problems on a planetary scale, not to mention regional scale too, and, finally, its repercussions at local level in the context of global environmental change.The following derived key themes are approached on this multi-scalar basis: the awakening of environmental and sustainability consciousness, Anthropocene, the climate crisis, the food crisis, the migratory crisis.Special emphasis, when dealing with all these derivatives, is put on their manifestations, consequences and future scenarios in the context of the Mediterranean basin.
Comment and analysis of some of the most important texts in the history of western political thought and the philosophical doctrines that inspired them and which they have been able to give rise to in turn.
Basic knowledge for the study of economic geography is offered, putting special emphasis on territorial reconfigurations relating to globalisation and the third industrial revolution.This leads to an introduction to the basic concepts and classical models, showing the historical development of economic systems up to the present day.It describes the mechanisms of globalisation in various areas (production, transport, finances) and works on the local development processes.Finally, it reflects on today’s socio-economic and environmental trends and analyses the alternatives based on sustainability.
Management and analysis applied to culture and scientific dissemination: fundamental knowledge of management and analysis of web pages and media networks.Knowing the principles of online communication strategies for disseminating web projects, management of online communities and the main tools for monitoring and measuring results.Creation of quality contents.Planning publications to obtain an optimum impact.Analysis of results obtained to optimise their future effect.
Historical and aesthetic reading, commenting and contextualisation of major literary works from the western tradition, from Romanticism to the present day.
Structure of the communication ecosystem, its dynamics and structural logics.Structure of the ecosystem of cultural industries, its dynamics and structural logics.Defining and explaining the fundamental elements of the study on communication policies and putting them in context in the political, social, economic and cultural frameworks in the Catalan, Spanish, European and international environments.Defining and explaining the fundamental elements of cultural policies and their contextualisation in political, social and economic frameworks.
Study of the different audiovisual formats; proposing a global vision of the audiovisual landscape, the construction strategies for the various formats and the different ways these formats are consumed.
The historical tradition of the local press –The political transition: progressive recovery of the local-communication model –The new territorial model –Local online communication –The nature of the local press –The figure of the local communicator –The free press, the local communication paradigm.
Analysis and development of the cultural public based on three factors: the value of cultural practices, the role of the public in cultural events and interests and stages of demand.Meaning and purpose of managing the public as a reference framework for proposing a model of cultural development.General strategies for the comprehensive development of a cultural-project public.Relational management methods as the most suitable ones for cultural public development.
Organising journalist work and its main routines, systems, tasks or roles.Emphasis on the stages that constitute the relationship between journalism professionals and their sources of information: research, documents, contrast, validation of information (from professional, ethical and legal points of view).
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