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Title of the presentation:
How to teach using blogging
Short abstract of the presentation:
The workshop will explore the possibilities of the blogging as a tools for a better academic teaching.
It will be articulated in three steps:
- questions about the context of teaching and motivation of introducing blogging: compatibility between blogging and academic strategy; role of the students, and so on.... (general discussion)
- technical questions: number of participants to the class, organization in small groups, role of the students, with exchange of informations about different contexts of teaching in different countries (general discussion)
- experimental organization of an academic blog. The group will be divided in smaller groups with diffent but collaborative aims: a) choice of the format and the organization of the blog; b) finding and organizing the contents; c) programming teaching tools (interactivity, forms for evaluation, and so on). At the end, brief report of every small group and general discussion.
The content of the blog will be a political-mediatic italian case. Participants will receive a short synthesis of the case and a sort list of materials.
Short biography:
Professor of Media Communications Theories and Media and Politics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
He is Director of Osservatorio sulla Comunicazione, a media and communication research center based at the Università Cattolica of Milan, involved in projects both with public institutions and private companies.
From 2001 to 2006 has been Italian representative in European Concerted Research Action designed as Cost Action 20 “The impact of Internet on the mass media in Europe” and he is actually member of the Cost Action 30 “East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda”.
In academic year 2003-04 he has been a member of the valuation commissions of degree courses in the “Campus One” CRUI (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane) project.
He is referee in PRIN (Cofunding of Research Projects of National Interest) projects of MIUR (Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca).
From 2005 to 2009 he has been member of the Scientific committee of Triennale di Milano, a foundation about design, fashion and audio-visual communication.
He is member of the editorial board of “Comunicazioni Sociali. Rivista di Media, Spettacolo e Studi Culturali”, “Problemi dell'Informazione”, “Comunication et langage”.
His scientific activity concerns sociology of media, with particular attention at the global development of digitalization and at the processes of incorporation of ICTs in everyday life. His researches support theorethical iphothesis with a strong empirical approch, more and more enclosed in an international dimension.
He has published several books and essays; between his latest publications:
- Il prodotto culturale. Teorie, tecniche di analisi, case histories (Carocci, Roma 2001), edited with R. Eugeni;
- Le età della TV (Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2002) edited with P. Aroldi;
- Introduzione allo studio dei media (Carocci, Roma, 2003);
- Tv and Interactivity in Europe. Mythologies, Theoretical Perspectives, Real Experiences (Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2004);
- Atlante della comunicazione (Hoepli, Milano 2005);
- Digitising Tv. Theoretical Issues and Comparative Studies across Europe (Vita & Pensiero, Milano 2006) edited with N. Vittadini.
- La digitalizzazione dei media, (Carocci, Milano 2007), edited
- Successi culturali e pubblici generazionali, (Link – RTI, Milan 2007), edited with P. Aroldi
- BOOM. Storia di quelli che non hanno fatto il ’68 (Rizzoli, Milano 2008)