UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE SOCIALI E POLITICHE

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AT A CROSSROADS: AN INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

17 March 2017
SALA LAUREE: 10.00-18.00

10:00 –  Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty and Head of Department
10:15 –  Presentation of the Encylopedia* by Gianpietro Mazzoleni University of Milan

MORNING SESSION Chair Marco Maraffi University of Milan

 Keynote Speakers
10:30 –  Revisiting notions of the public • Patricia Moy University of Washington
11:15 –  The end of mediatization • Winfried Schulz Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
12:00 –  The conditions for news media instrumentalization • Paolo Mancini University of Perugia
12:45 –  Democratic benefits and pitfalls of mediated public debates • Hartmut Wessler Universität Mannheim

13:30 –  LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION Chair Patricia Moy University of Washington

Keynote Speakers

14:30 –  New media, new boundaries and new challenges – Comparative perspective in political communications • Barbara Pfetsch Freie Universität Berlin
15:15 –  Democracy and communication. Discovering Italian political communication • Gianfranco Pasquino University of Bologna
16:00 –  The study of political communication in Italy and beyond Political leadership and polarized publics • Mauro Barisione University of Milan
– When pop politics meets web politics • Sara Bentivegna University of Rome-La Sapienza
– Lights and shadows of the celebrity politician • Donatella Campus University of Bologna
– Cultural Studies and political discourse: An ongoing conversation • Lidia De Michelis University of Milan
– The transformation of election campaigns • Franca Roncarolo University of Turin
– News values, organizational constraints and media logic • Sergio Splendore University of Milan

CLOSING
17.00 –  Patricia Moy University of Washington Gianpietro Mazzoleni University of Milan

*G. Mazzoleni, K.G. Barnhurst, K. Ikeda, R.C. M. Maia, H. Wessler, eds. The International Encyclopedia of Political
Communication, Wiley & Blackwell, 2016