Sociology of Communication

Scholar Year: 2023/2024 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Lídia Soraya Barreto Marôpo 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 3,20 Lídia Marôpo   3,20

Teaching language

Portuguese

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

In this UC is intended that students develop the following competencies:

• Understand and problematize the concept of communication.
• Recognize the importance of communication in human life
• Identify communication phenomena, understanding them as sociological processes.
• Understand the different theoretical and methodological perspectives of Sociology in approaching communicative realities.
• Know the main theoretical contributions and research traditions of the Sociology of Communication
• Recognize the impact of Sociology on notions of social representations.
• Analyze the role of communication in the formation and development of public space.
• Understand the transformations in the paradigm shift from mass communication to network communication.

Syllabus

1. Sociology as a science;
2. The construction of sociological thought;
The. Founding authors of classical thought: Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and Karl Marx
B. Durkheim's impact on the construction of the idea of social representations.
3. Communication as a sociological object and the improbability of communication;
4. The public and the private in modern societies;
5. The media and the restructuring of public space;
6. The emergence of the network society and the effects produced
7. Challenges of technologies and of networked and mediated communication.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The syllabus of the Curricular Unit aims to ensure a general approach to the different theoretical perspectives founding sociology and sociology of communication. It is intended that students know and understand the main contributions of sociology to the explanation and understanding of communication, based on the assumption that the media decisively affect societies.
Through an approach on different theoretical perspectives of the sociology of communication, it is intended to comprehensively explore the development and evolution of sociological thought.

Teaching methodologies

Face-to-face theoretical framework sessions;
Guided discussion and debate on topics, based on the reading of texts, analysis and interpretation of theoretical and empirical information, and viewing of audiovisual materials such as documentaries, films and series that approach the themes addressed in the Curricular Unit.

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

The activities developed are intended to meet the objectives of the UC through the articulation of the contents defined in this program with the interests and experiences of students in relation to communicative phenomena. The presentation of the UC contents aims to motivate reflection on them, based on the analysis of contemporary communicative phenomena, through the experience of media consumption, by students and teachers.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

Within the scope of this UC, the following will be systematically evaluated:
Test (40%);
Group work (40%)
Exercises in the classroom (20%)

Bibliography

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