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Presentation
Presentation
This course aims to equip students with knowledge that articulates the field of media and civic cultures cultures, focusing on new digital media, but not forgetting the multiplatforms and the implementation of action in everyday life. This knowledge must be deeply theoretical and also based on recent scientific advances.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Doctorate | Semestral | 6
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULP1963-22473
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Recent historical context - Transformation of the 20th century: from traditional political action to the emergence of citizens' civic action - Reconceptualizations at the turn of the 21st century - Peter Dahlgren's model: knowledge, values, trust, spaces, practices and identities. 2. Civic cultures and internet - New activisms - Civic rituals - Democracy and virtual worlds - Forms of deliberation? - Participatory culture - Participation and the political - Promoting the culture of production and engagement of citizens 3. Horizontality of the Internet? - "Digital devide" and civic activisms - On/off: civic action in life circuit 4. Activisms, change and development - Participation as a change project - The voice of different geographies - Activism and civic culture for change 5. Media, activisms and civic cultures - Perspectives, dilemmas and (dis)illusions
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Objectives
Objectives
Students should be able to: Understand the recent historical foundation that implies civic action in between a more conventional conceptualization and a broader Understand the relevance of thought on civic cultures, the Internet and digital media, which have created possibilities for civic action. Understand and problematize knowledge about the real possibilities of the Internet, that often challenge its horizontality. Understand and identify in-depth perspectives of action, such as activism, the conceptualization for change and for development, of them with relevancethroughout the context of more in-depth civic action.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
flipped learning
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References
References
Almond, G. A., & Verba, S. (1989). The Civic Culture - Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations . Newbury Park, Londres e Nova Deli: Sage Publications. Brites, M. J. (2015). Jovens e culturas cívicas: Por entre formas de consumo noticioso e de participação . Covilhã: LabCom Books. Dahlberg, L. (2001). The internet and the democratic discourse: Exploring the prospects of online deliberative forums extending the public sphere. Information, Communication & Society, 4 (4), 615¿633. Dahlgren, P. (2009). Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication, and Democracy . Camb.: Cambridge U. Press. Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide . N. Iorque e Londres: N. York University Press Mouffe, C. (2005). On the Political (Thinking in Action) . Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge. Tufte, T. (2017). Communication and social change: A citizen perspective . Cambri., UK: Polity Press
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
