Medium and Mediality
Coordinator: Prof. Lucia Bertolini, PhD (Scheda Docente)
Language of the Course: Italian
Duration: 3 years
Didactics of the doctorate
Research authorities
Research Lines
Collaborations and international mobility
Dottorato e imprese
Regulation of the Research Doctorate
Regulation for the issuance of the authorisation of the working activity of the PhD students
PhD Dissertation
Form - authorisation of the working activity (PDF - ITA)
Form - authorisation of the working activity (doc - ITA)
Modulo authorisation of doctoral mission (PDF - ITA)
Modulo authorisation of doctoral mission (doc - ITA)
Regulation and form - Reinbursement of expenses for doctoral missions
Lines of research
Communicative mediation: revolutions and meta-knowledge in visual, written and mass-media cultureNew forms of transmedial creativity and generative processes of knowledge; Computer based stemmatology and digital editions; From manuscript to digital; Transformation of political participation and forms of citizenship; Transformations in the relationships between language, medium and message; Utopian and dystopian languages; ecocriticism; posthumanism.
Texts and texts: Translation; rewritings, adaptations; Transmedia and crossmedia content construction (storytelling and cultural products); Orality, writing and textualisation; Hypertext philosophy; Imitation, reuse, refunctionalisation and plagiarism (old and new dimensions of copyright); Dissemination, circulation and sustainability of texts (manuscripts, documentary sources, art collections, audiovisual products, media industries); Cultural systems and products (economic, organisational and market dimensions, sustainability, circular economy, public support and consequences of cultural policies).
Transmediality and philosophy of the web; Collective and interdisciplinary research perspectives for ancient disciplines (digitisation of sources and cultural heritage); Rethinking libraries and archives; Social impact of the net (privacy and oblivion, web reputation in the corporate and personal sphere); Freedom of information and fake news; Information and financial and corporate communication: efficiency and market distortion; Organisations and the common good.
Case studies of the intersection of space/time/medium factors; Phenomenology and freedom of virtual and augmented environments; Intersections between real and virtual communities; The frontier of mediality: anatomies, cartographies, scripts; Meanings and political functions of memory; Phenomenology of perception and media; Philosophy and the linguistic medium.
Education, training and learning in the digital horizon (media literacy and media education, digital divide and inclusive education, ethical development, cyberbullying, disciplinary teaching perspectives); Digital innovation and legal and organisational transformation (smart working, digital contract, e-commerce); Mediatisation of social phenomena.