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This course is designed from Masters’ students as well as for undergraduate students on the final years of studies. Identity is a theme central to humanities and social sciences and over the last decades, it has acquired a great deal of scientific interest to interpret a range of social issues and phenomena related to the era sociologists describe as late, post, liquid or reflexive modernity, and to the social transformations brought by what Manuel Castells describes as ‘the network society’. The course aims at critically discussing the concept of identity from an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, focusing on identity and media uses and experience. Sociological concerns related to the construction of the self and the other, the mediation of difference, the question of voice, exclusion and representation, the processes characterizing globalization, or the phenomena related to consumer culture such as social fragmentation, as well as the relation of identity to citizenship and politics, will be unfolded by the course.
1. Introduction: media and identity in late modernity
2. Understanding identity and culture
Barker & Galasinski, 2001, cultural studies and discourse analysis, a dialogue on language and identity, chapters 1 & 2
Mansfield, 2000. Subjectivity: theories of the self from Freud to Haraway, chapters 1 & 4.
3. Problematizing identity: globalization and identity crises
Castells, M. 2003. The information age: economy society and culture vol. 2, the power of identity, chapter 1.
4. Consumerism, popular culture and identity
Dean, Kathryn. 2003. Capitalism and citizenship, chapters 5 & 6
5. Media, representation and identity
Hall S. 1997, representations, cultural representations and signifying practices, chapter 1.
6. Crises of multiculturalism and post racialism
Lentin A. & Titley, G. 2011. The crises of multiculturalism, chapters 1 & 4.
7. Voice and media
Couldry, N. 2010. Why voice matters. Chapters, 1, 4, 6.
8. Gender and media culture
Gauntlett, D. 2008. Media, gender and identity. Chapters, 1,2,4.
9. New media, identity and power
Curran, J. Fenton, N., Freedman, D. 2012. Misunderstanding the internet. Part III
Papacharissi, Zizi. 2010. A private sphere, democracy in a digital age, chapter 6.
10. Politics, information and identity
Castells, M. 2003. The information age: economy society and culture vol. 2, the power of identity, chapter 6
Couldry, N. 2010, Why voice matters. chapters 2 & 3.
11. Civic cultures, participation, citizenship
Dahlgren, P. 2009. Media and political engagement. Chapters 1, 3, 5.
Carpentier, N. 2011. Media and participation. Chapter 1.1 and 3.
12. Cosmopolitanism and the potential of media
Silverstone, R. 2006. Media and morality on the rise of mediapolis. Chapters 1, 5, 6.
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Barker & Galasinski, 2001, cultural studies and discourse analysis, a dialogue on language and identity
Mansfield, 2000. Subjectivity: theories of the self from Freud to Haraway,
Castells, M. 2003. The information age: economy society and culture vol. 2
Dean, Kathryn. 2003. Capitalism and citizenship
Hall S. 1997, representations, cultural representations and signifying practices
Lentin A. & Titley, G. 2011. The crises of multiculturalism
Couldry, N. 2010. Why voice matters
Gauntlett, D. 2008. Media, gender and identity
Curran, J. Fenton, N., Freedman, D. 2012. Misunderstanding the internet
Papacharissi, Zizi. 2010. A private sphere, democracy in a digital age
Carpentier, N. 2011. Media and participation
Dahlgren, P. 2009. Media and political engagement
Silverstone, R. 2006. Media and morality on the rise of mediapolis
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