Curriculum A) Communication, Media, Languages and Society. Cultures and Sciences

The Communication, Media, Languages and Society: Cultures and Sciences Curriculum, which pivots on computational linguistic analysis, with original NLP software and application languages, and experimental psycholinguistics research, fashions a flexible and articulated network of humanistic soft skills and Key Enabling Technologies, of professionalizing and intersectoral scientific knowledge and skills, which are both theoretical and methodological, and hermeneutical and applied, and focused on cultural multi- and trans-disciplinary fields and content. These research practices are at the heart of the educational offer of the Curriculum, which intends to provide basic and specialized tools to understand, analyse, evaluate and plan the contemporary transformations enacted by new digital technologies on the forms of production, circulation, use and consumption of documediality and communicative, cultural and creative contents, whether artifacts, operational, natural or artificial (verbal, textual, visual and audio-visual) in the various public and private spheres of culture and society.

The Curriculum therefore transversally declines the contemporary cultures and sciences of Communication, Media, Languages and Society, and it openly integrates trans- and inter-disciplinary approaches, such as studies of aesthetics and visual and media culture, ethnographic research of habits and social narratives and digital value networks, qualitative, quantitative and mixed sociological methodologies, and comparative and intercultural analyses of digital narratives and institutional languages in local, national and supranational post-coronavirus policies, which are not limited to Europe and the Mediterranean.

1. The analysis and testing of languages and environments for the development of NLP tools and applications. Development and application of hybrid systems for the analysis and visualization of Big Data and Data Mining in the contemporary knowledge and communication society, including public and institutional, media and informal.
2. Basic theoretical and experimental research on cognitive processes and on language comprehension and production. Linguistic, psycholinguistic and neuro-imaging analysis based on oral and written stimuli.
3. Contemporary aesthetics of communication and of media environments, both analogue and digital. Theoretical, methodological and field research for the production of documentaries, interviews, narratives and participatory and therapeutic filmmaking.
4. History, theories and methodologies of contemporary visual culture, of images, languages, media environments, vision devices and practices of material and immaterial production and consumption. Everyday Aesthetics and Mobile Visual Culture.
5. Youth artistry and artification, creativity and communication. Informal practices and participatory cultures.
6. Narratives, changes and social mobility. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies, and narratological theories of cultural processes and communicative conflicts.
7. Ethnographies and digital cultural geographies and Digital Capital.

Employment and professional opportunities

Universities, institutes, and centres of excellence. Companies, public and private institutions specialized in the management of semantic content, Big Data, NLP, and DH. Innovative production of research and communication, both institutional and non-institutional, audio-visual and digital, Media and Social Media. Cultural and creative enterprises and industries. Public and private national and international institutions and bodies. Public administration, NGOs, non-profit organisations.

Curriculum B) Politics, Law and Institutions. Theory and History

The Politics, Law and Institutions: Theory and History Curriculum is structured and articulated around research and analysis methodologies that are traditionally similar but are currently experiencing profound epistemic, categorical and thematic renewals, such as the history, the historiography and theory, even comparative, of the formation processes of modern and contemporary political and juridical institutions. This also includes the constructions of the stateform and its transformations, governance techniques, Hard and Soft Power apparatuses, international relations and conflicts, now redefined in light of the post-Covid-19 geopolitical agendas and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Primary emphasis is placed on critical perspectives on transformations of subjectivities and on citizenship, feminist theories, gender studies, postcolonial and decolonial approaches, and on key words of modernity and contemporaneity, such as secularism, religious freedom and the public sphere, political and legal secularization, multiculturalism, humanitarianism and human rights, biopolitics and extra-human nature.

1. The historical and theoretical analysis of the formation processes of modern and contemporary political institutions, of the form-state and its transformations, of Hard Power and Soft Power. Theory, history and critical perspectives on international relations and conflicts, war, hostile figures, human rights, cosmopolitanism and humanitarianism.
2. Political rationality and techniques of government. Establishment and transformation of the relationship between public and private space. Change and crisis of representative democracy, the emergence of new subjectivities. Class, race, gender: intersectional Dottorato di ricerca in politica e comunicazione—policom movements and conflicts. Forms of populism, social democracy, movements. Welfare and Webfare, poverty and social exclusion.
3. The theoretical study and empirical research ofsocial change, of processes and situations of social and territorial inequality and of cohesion policies, at national and international levels, also in a comparative historical perspective.
4. Theoretical and epistemological research on the relationships among human nature, extrahuman nature, forms of life and political institutions, and biopolitics.
5. Theoretical and historical analysis of legal institutions, public law and private law. Secularism, public space, multiculturalism, religious freedom and the public sphere, analysis of political and legal secularization processes.
6. Comparative, information and communication law; Advertising Law; Copyright.
7. History of conflicts, cultural processes and the transmission of ideas in the political and historical literature of the modern age. Metaphorology and narratology

Employment and professional opportunities

Universities, research institutes and centres of historico-cultural documentation and institutional archiving, EU bodies. Digital networks. Public and private research. International institutions, NGOs, non-profit organisations, public administration bodies. Public and private institutes, parties, unions, research networks dedicated to public policy, international cooperation, activism. Publishing.

Curriculum C) Territory, Businesses and Sustainability. Global strategies and dynamics

The Territory, Businesses and Sustainability: Global strategies and dynamics Curriculum intends to train highly qualified specialists who, drawing on scientific methodologies, are capable of delineating place-based development policies and business strategies that are attentive to the imperatives of the ecological transition and to the interactions between local contexts and global networks. The Curriculum has a clear multi-disciplinary approach, which combines geographical, business, historical and sociological sciences, with the aim of promoting individual talents and Dottorato di ricerca in politica e comunicazione—policom building qualified and personalized research strands in a wide variety of scientific fields, which can be grouped in several principal areas, including: territorial planning and urban government, analysis of socio-economic inequalities and territorial development processes, corporate sustainability and competitive advantage, social innovation and Community-Led local development (CLLD) approaches, management and marketing of tourism systems, dynamic legacies and decision-making processes. The Curriculum intends to promote research capable of supporting new models of territorial and business governance and management based on the principles of sustainable development and social responsibility through innovative tools, strategies and products and in line with the agenda of the EU Action Plan 2030.

1. Studies, methodologies and instruments for the analysis of urban and regional systems (environmental frameworks, historical territorial matrices, context resources, organizational forms, etc.) and for the design of territorialized and Community-Led local development policies and strategies.
2. Strategic studies to address the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, urbanization, socio-economic inequalities and power relations; methodologies and tools to support geospatial analysis (GIS, remote sensing, etc.).
3. Theories and methods for the governance and management of enterprises producing goods and services, considering the unitary nature of the enterprise system and the relationships it maintains with the competitive context; methodologies to address management challenges in support of digital and green transitions.
4. Analysis of corporate marketing and communication strategies and tactics to support corporate social responsibility processes and corporate reputation development; research techniques for the analysis of the behaviour of digitally-empowered consumers and the evolutionary dynamics of brands.
5. Historical-comparative analysis of the global dynamics of change, of the processes of international cooperation and national and transnational identity construction/deconstruction, with particular emphasis on power, development, conflicts and the human mobility-inequality nexus.
6. Perspectives and methods of analysis of social processes in territorial projection, with particular reference to the causes, characteristics and consequences of mobility phenomena.
7. Studies, methodologies and tools for the analysis and management of sustainable tourism systems, the planning of destinations, the assessment of the impact of tourism on local communities, the conservation and enhancement of the cultural and natural heritage and the promotion of eco-sustainable practices.

Employment and professional opportunities

Universities, institutes, and research centres. Public bodies and administration; Consultancy firms and public-private consortia for local development; Local, regional and national tourism development agencies; National and international institutions dedicated to the management and Dottorato di ricerca in politica e comunicazione—policom sustainable development of territories; consultancy firms specializing in marketing and destination communication. Public administration, NGOs, non-profit organisations.

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