Disciplines

1. Compulsory area of concentration for

THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION – 1ST SEMESTER

The field of communication: theoretical trends and tendencies. Social theory and media. Contributions of Marxist theory to the field of communication: concepts and interpretations. Contributions of Cultural Studies Latin American and Anglo-Americans. Contributions of semiology.

METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH COMMUNICATION – 2nd SEMESTER

The course is dedicated to contemporary thematic approaches considered relevant to the needs of theoretical and methodological development projects in the program. Its objective is to locate the student and to its object of analysis, methods and techniques and structure of the research.

RESEARCH SEMINAR – 3rd SEMESTER

Theoretical and methodological foundation of academic work. Definition of corpus, formal and normative aspects, drafting, review articles and defense, communications and a Master’s thesis. Promotion of discussions about the development of scientific work, construction articles, communications and dissertative work; theoretical and methodological perspectives on the problems of research. Subsidize the masters in the preparation of their formal essays aimed at the public defense work.

RESEARCH ORIENTED (EDT) – 4th SEMESTER

Corresponds to the activity of doing research for the dissertation work under the guidance of a tenured professor. Establish a formal and institutional relationship between the student and his advisor during the process of writing their dissertation.

2. DISCIPLINES: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES SEMIOLOGY OF MEDIA DISCOURSES

Practice semiotic analysis of media discourse according to theories (Theory of the utterance, discourse analysis, Narrative Semiotics). The discursive organization and discourse analysis. Construction of the senses.

MEDIA PROCESS AND TERRITORIAL

The transformation of media processes and spatial constitution of social and institutional life in the context of the new order techno-cultural world and their impact on local economy. The link between the concepts related to the notion of territory and/or space such as territorialization, deterritorialization, and repossession actions and contemporary media.

MEDIA STRATEGIES AND IMAGE

Analysis of the discursive and narrative and values of the different mobilizations image circulating in the media. Consideration of the formal apparatus of communication, articulation and representation of the field of media and production of the senses.

COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SPACE

The changes in the public space and the nature of social ties from the phenomenon of accelerating technological and information flows. Study of links between the phenomenon of communication and the recent changes in contemporary culture, in which the network societies are determined by symbolic exchanges.

AND MEDIA PLURALISM

The course offers an analysis of the views of multiculturalism and globalization in the broadcast media, in which the assertion of the plurality of social worlds coexisting with an increasing reduction of the boundaries between cultures. Emphasis on dynamic Equality / Difference and Universal / relative front-space compression of late modernity.

3. Disciplines: Media and Contemporary Identities

MEDIA, IDENTITY AND ADDRESS

Media, language, speech. Circulation of culture and knowledge. Disciplinary boundaries and identity. Theory/discourse (theoretical approach, source); main trends in contemporary discourse analysis.

COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS

The relationship of media and digital technologies in the canary of globalization. Cultural diversity and media. Consequences of action in the process of media creation and / or representation of identities in the contemporary world.

MEDIA AND CULTURAL CONSUMPTION

The course covers the use of culture as it encompasses the active reception of the media and the process of redefinition of the sense of belonging and identity, organized less by national loyalties and increasing participation in communities by transterritorial or dispossessed.

MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS

The course covers the application of representation theory to media processes. The representational status of the media text. The legacy of representations. Representation, identity, space and time. Representation and transtextual. Intertextuality, representation and memory. Representation. Image, subject and object. The consumption of media representations. Representation and cultural industries. Representation and virtuality.

4. Complementary Activities

SPECIAL TOPICS – Participation in events with the presentation of papers.
SPECIAL TOPICS I – publishing articles in national and / or international publication of a book chapter.
TEACHING ORIENTED – corresponds to the activity compared to the Master’s graduate students, teaching up to 30% of a discipline of responsibility of the teacher advisor, and under the direction of, the Undergraduate Program in Communication UFSM.