Media & Communication Studies

Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”

A new research centre, coming from the merging of the Crisc-Cmcs (Centre for Media and Cultural Studies) and CRC (Research Centre for Communication).

A list of main researches is available HERE.

Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies in Italy

An article about the growth and development of British Cultural Studies in Italian Media and Audience Studies (by Emiliana De Blasio and Michele Sorice; presented in London, July 20th 2007. Cultural Studies Now. An International Conference, University of East London, 19-22 July 2007)

Full paper is published by University of East London in “Cultural Studies Now Conference Journal”.

Download here.

The Conference Journal is here.

Audience Research

Mobile Audiences. Methodological Problems and New Perspectives in Audience Research

Mobile Audiences: a paper presented by Michele Sorice at  Transforming Audiences. Creativity. Identity. Everyday Life conference. University of Westminster, London, September 6-7, 2007.

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1530

Mobile Audiences, Social Networking, Media and Participation

Mobile Audiences, Social Networking and the interrelationships between Media and Participation are three important research fields. The slides below are only an example of a research about mobile audiences and social participation.

Media Effects

The idea that people might imitate behaviour they have seen in the mass media is strongly diffused. It has had a great success among many scholars, even if  the model is often based on studies with misapplied methodology and is not grounded in theory. The reasons why are a lot. We propose an article by David Gauntlett (in his website) about “Ten things wrong with the media ‘effects’ model”. I agree with Gauntlett’s analysis; so, please, read it.

Ten things wrong with the media effects model

Media and Political Communication

Here you can see the first part of a project research about media and youths social participation. This research – directed by Michele Sorice and coordinated by Emiliana De Blasio – was presented for the first time before Italian General Elections of 2006 at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Media Generations

Mediagenerations is a research project in the PRIN (Progetti di rilevante interesse nazionale) frame. The project is directed by Prof. Fausto Colombo, Catholic University of Milan. The project is based upon five research units:

1. Catholic University, Milan (director: Prof. Fausto Colombo)
2. University of Rome (director: Prof. Michele Sorice)
3. University “Carlo Bo”, Urbino (director: Prof. Giovanni Boccia Artieri)
4. University of Bergamo (director: Prof. Francesca Pasquali)
5. University of Trento (director: Prof. Luigi Del Grosso Destreri)

Crisc-Cmcs (University “Sapienza” , Rome) senjor researchers were:

Michele Sorice, Emiliana De Blasio, Davide Bennato, Salvatore Polito, Alberto Zoratti

Further details on the research project  website (click the banner below)

Media Generations. Documents, Papers, Outcomes

June Edmunds’ paper at conference “Generations”, Catholic University, Milan, Italy, March 23rd 2007 (June Edmund, Cambridge University, UK). Italian version here.

“Generations”, Conference Proceedings, Catholic University, Milan, Italy, March 23rd 2007

Generations. A new research agenda in sociology of culture – paper by Pierpaolo Donati (University of Bologna, Italy) at Opening Seminar, Catholic University, Milan, Italy, March 23rd 2007

Media Generations. Research Advances – presentation by Michele Sorice (Crisc-Cmcs) and Giovanni Boccia Artieri (Larica) on behalf of the five research units, Pic-Ais Conference, Bicocca University, Milan, October 16th-17th 2008

Some references about Media Studies

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And some articles and old books to download

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