This course aims to present, through an anthological approach divided into two distinct but complementary parts, a thematic area of ​​central importance for current studies in the field of aesthetics, communication sciences, history, and media theory. The first part of the anthology, entitled "Aesthetics of Communication" and edited by Roberto Diodato, focuses on the "aesthetic logos" as a communicative event: that commonplace, or shared aesthetic sense, which is a condition of the possibility of the meanings of socializable, generating sharable works and forms that we can feel and judge. The conviction underlying this section, along which we encounter texts by some of the most important protagonists of twentieth-century aesthetics, is that if symbols make us think, it is because they emerge from this horizon and bear witness to it. In the second part, entitled "Media Aesthetics" and curated by Antonio Somaini, the media capacity is at the center of attention - including writing, telephone, photography, cinema, radio, television, the Internet, contemporary social networks for configuring, transforming and make the sensible experience sharable. This theme is explored and discussed through a sequence of texts along which we meet some of the protagonists of the artistic avant-garde of the 1910s and 1920s, theorists of photography, cinema, and radio, as well as some of the main exponents of media studies from their birth until now. today, in a phase in which the continuous transformations in the contemporary media panorama propose some new problems to the aesthetics of media and communication. The bibliographic references are designed as a working tool for those who want a first study of the topics covered in the anthology.

After completing the course the student: - Will be able to understand the forms of interaction between the medium and the aesthetic object, especially regarding the narrative dimension in the transition from high to low intensity - will have acquired the ability to read the fragment from one medium to another reworking of an artistic product and know how to identify the characteristic forms. Communication skills At the end of the course the student: - will be able to explain the effects of the transition from one medium to another in relation to a narrative path.