Culture Industries

Scholar Year: 2019/2020 - 2S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Marta Sofia da Luz Marcos Pinho Alves Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 4,00 Marta Alves   4,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

At the end of the course unit students should be able to:
-to identify the genesis of the concept, its contemporary applications and other related concepts;
- recognize the key concepts and theoretical models associated with it, as well as their creation and application contexts;
- understand the complexity of its definition in relation to the multiple positions it calls;
-to understand the economic, political and cultural dynamics associated with the cultural industries;
- recognize the impacts of the digital age in the field of industrial cultural production.
- adopt an informed and critical attitude towards the debates on the subject.

Syllabus

1. From "Culture Industry" to "Cultural Industries": brief history of the concept.
2. Cultural policies and the development of cultural industries
- The growth of cultural industries
- Cultural policies
- The geography of cultural production
3. Organization and management of cultural industries
- production, circulation, reception, promotion of the products of cultural industries.
4. Convergence, production and consumption.
- Technology and organization
- Audiences and cultural consumption
- Production and consumption in the era of "participatory culture"

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The programmed content is in line with the objectives, given that it is intended to give students an up-to-date and critical perspective on the functioning of cultural industries and the different theoretical positions on the same subject. The programmatic contents provided allow a transversal and historical view of the phenomenon, as well as the analysis of the contemporary national and international situation and the main themes and problems associated with it.

Teaching methodologies

The classes will be divided into two contiguous sections, a first one with an expositive nature in which the proposed concepts will be presented in the programmatic contents and a second one, which proposes, from the reading of texts, analysis of practical cases related to the concepts presented above or contact with Agents of the field of culture, the collective debate on these issues.

Due to the exceptional and temporary measures related to the epidemiological situation of the new Coronavirus and to the provisions made by the Government with a view to regulating and operationalizing the State of Emergency enacted in Portugal, tutorial sessions with pre-defined working groups and plenary sessions will be held at distance in synchronous period with the preset classroom time (exceptionally, for the convenience of the participants, other days and times can be scheduled). All activities and exercises will be based on texts (script, visual, sound or audiovisual) previously indicated or made available to students and aim at their analysis and discussion.
The online devices to be used will be the following:
Private Facebook group (GPF) for the course (created at the beginning of the semester as a complement to the face-to-face activity), intended for document sharing, meeting and discussion.
Zoom, Skype, Whatsapp for classes and tutoring meetings with work groups, synchronous with the time of the face-to-face classes (other days and times can be defined if deemed necessary).
E-mail and Messenger for individual contacts.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

It is considered that expository methodology followed by student participation in the analysis of documents and practical cases, always guided by the teacher, will contribute to the development of the competencies identified in the objectives. The student will have the opportunity to know theoretical thinking about the topics under analysis and deepen their understanding by identifying and questions and obtaining answers and by observing their application in concrete cases.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

1. Written reports on two open classes, developed in a group [40%]

2. Participation in group activities in the planning and organization of open classes [20%]

3. Evaluation test [40%]
A specific evaluation document will be distributed to the students, explaining the rules of preparation and delivery times for each element of evaluation.

Due to the exceptional and temporary measures related to the epidemiological situation of the new Coronavirus and to the provisions made by the Government with a view to regulating and operationalizing the State of Emergency enacted in Portugala, the previous evaluation proposal was changed, proposing a new one considered more appropriate to the situation :

1. Group work (4/5 elements): A research work based on a case integrated in one of the Cultural Industries: television, cinema, music, fashion, video games, books, etc. [70% final grade 60% product + 10% participation in tutorial meetings]
2. Group work (4/5 elements): exercises requested in class and carried out in groups. [30% final grade]

Attendance system

Does not apply

Bibliography

AAVV ( s/d [várias]), A Indústria da Cultura, Lisboa: Meridiano.
ADORNO, Theodor (2003 [várias]), Sobre a Indústria da Cultura, Coimbra: Angelus Novus.
ANHEIER, Helmut K.; ISAR, Yudhishthir Raj (2008) The Cultural Economy. Los Angeles e Londres: Sage.
BRETON, Philippe; PROULX, Serge (1997), A Explosão da Comunicação, Lisboa: Bizâncio.
FLEW, Terry (2012) The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy. Londres: Sage.
HARTLEY, John (2005) Creative Industries. Oxford: Blackwell.
HESMONDHALGH, David (2007) The Cultural Industries. Londres: Sage.
INGLIS, Fred (2004) Culture. Cambridge: Polity.
LEWIS, Justin; MILLER Toby (Eds) (2003) Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
LASH, Scott; LURY, Celia (2007) Global Culture Industry: the Mediation of Things. Cambridge: Polity.
MCROBBIE, Angela (1999) In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion, and Popular Music. Londres: Routledge.
SANDEL, Michael (2012), What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Londres: Allen Lane.