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Society and Communication

Society and Communication

Code	11738
Year	3
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Communication Sciences
Entry requirements	NA
Mode of delivery	Face to face
Learning outcomes	Syllabus 1. The importance of communication in society. 2. The definition of culture and communication. 2.1 Culture in the anthropological sense 2.2. Culture in the humanistic sense 3. Communication and culture: boundaries and intersections 3.1, Technical Reproducibility and Cultural Industry. 3.2. Cultural industries and creative industries: definition. 3.2. Digital media and the transformation of cultural experience 3.3. What is creativity? The specificity of creative work 3.4. Changes in the production and reception of communicative products 3.4.1. New forms of work and business organization in the cultural field 3.4.1. Autonomy and subjectivity in the digital age
Syllabus	1. The transformation of cultural experience into modernity. 2. The crisis of classical culture and the emergence of cultural industries. 3. The cultural industry 4. Technical reproducibility and loss of the aura. 5. Criticism of mass culture. 6. The public cultural sphere 7. The impact of new technologies on cultural production.
Main Bibliography	Adorno, T. W. (1987). A Industria Cultural. In G. Cohn (Ed.), Comunicação e Indústria Cultural (pp. 287–295). São Paulo, Brasil: T.A Queiroz. Adorno, T. W., & Horkheimer, M. (2002). O iluminismo como mistificação das massas. In J. B. M. De Almeida (Ed.), Indústria Cultural e Sociedade, (pp. 5–44). Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Edição Paz e Terra,. Antunes, M. (2007). Cultura. In M. Antunes Antunes, Manuel, Cultura in Volume IV: História da Cultura, Lisboa: Fundação Gulbenkian, 2007 (Ed.), História da Cultura-IV (pp. 60–66). Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Gulbenkian. Benjamin, W. (1987). «A obra de arte na era da sua reprodutibilidade técnica». In S. P. Rouanet (Ed.), Magia, Técnica, Arte e Politic (pp. 165–196). São Paulo, Brasil: Brasiliense. Correia, J. C. (2004). Comunicação e Cidadania: Os media e a fragmentação do espaço publico nas sociedades pluralistas. Lisboa, Portugal: Horizonte. Hesmondhalgh, D., & Baker, S. (2011). Creative Labour , Media work in three cultural industries. London, U.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.