TEACHING

Medium and Mediality

Description

The concepts of medium and mediality involve interconnected research topics, characterized by a strong interdisciplinarity. Through an integrated approach, the Research Doctorate aims to investigate the themes of information, of the ‘medium’, understood as the means or instrument of communication of information, and of mediality, understood as the relationship between the media and the way we perceive the world, interact with others and consume information. Favouring the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aspect, these topics are investigated within the framework of human sciences, law, economics and social sciences. Also investigated are the interconnections with other highly topical issues, such as the process of digitisation of society, which have a relevant impact in humanistic-literary, historical-educational, legal, economic and socio-political studies. The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of the Research Doctorate is ensured not only by the expertise of the members of the teaching staff, but also by the different lines of research that the Research Doctorate proposes. The research lines concern the following areas:
Area 10 - Ancient, philological-literary and historical-artistic sciences
Area 11 - Historical, philosophical and pedagogical sciences
Area 12 - Legal sciences
Area 13 - Economic sciences
Area 14 - Political and social sciences


Objectives

The Research Doctorate aims to provide an adequate preparation for: a) carrying out research activities in the academic field; b) obtaining competences for highly qualified professional activities to be carried out in public or private - national and international - structures/institutions/centres dealing with issues related to information, communication tools and the impact of the media in the humanistic-literary, historical-pedagogical, legal, economic and socio-political disciplines.


Career Opportunities

Thanks to its multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary character, the Research Doctorate enables the acquisition of transversal scientific knowledge and skills as well as solid specialized expertise. In addition, it provides space for specific in-depth studies related to the proposed topics through the possibility of a research experience abroad. This opportunity is realised through the presence of foreign lecturers in the college and the availability of financial contributions to spend the research period abroad in facilities that are strategic for the specific lines of research. The main professional opportunities are offered by the world of research, i.e. universities and research institutes. Further job opportunities involve other contexts, such as production companies (multinationals, small and medium-sized enterprises), service companies and public administration.


Coordinator: Prof. Francesco Napoli (Teacher Profile)
Language of the Course: Italian
Duration: 3 years
General Didactics
Research authorities
Lines of Research
Regulation of the Research Doctorate
Regulation for the issuance of the authorisation of the working activity of the PhD students and related forms
Mobilità internazionale

XLI Cycle (2025-26)

Lines of Research

New 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.

Digitization of public and private enterprise; 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.