Department of Communication
Mission
The Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary centre for education and research in the broader field of media and communication that fosters creativity and critical thinking on an equal basis, ethical practices of inclusivity and sustainable development, and respect for human diversity. We are home to a vibrant community of undergraduate and post/graduate students with various academic and professional interests and a group of scholars that pursues high-quality teaching and research originality and excellence, gradually bearing international recognition and impact on the communication industry, policy and the third sector.
People
Vision
In pursuing our mission, we draw on and combine several research traditions, interests and methodologies with the aspiration to make innovative contributions to four areas of study:
Advertising communication: creative and brand communication; consumer behaviour and wellbeing; ethical and regulatory frameworks; advertising and media literacy; technological developments and transformations; digital marketing; social media and the influencer industry; AI and big data in advertising campaigns
Strategic Communication and Public Relations: corporate, organizational, political as well as non-profit and crisis communication; ethical debates on gendered public discourse, citizenship, and minority rights, among others; the complex interplays between global public affairs, civil security, political violence and terrorism in mediated democracy.
Audiovisual communication and film studies: film theory and analysis; philosophical enquiry into the aesthetics of media-cultural artefacts; the role of language and visuals in constructing social identities, institutional roles and group dynamics; cultural, multimodal and critical discourse analysis of audiovisual communication in the digital world.
Journalism and media studies: journalistic values and ideologies in news production; the political economy of digital platforms and their in-built algorithmic biases; digital journalism; digital populism; digital alienation in communicative ecosystems; social media and public discourse; power and injustice in the attention economies of platform capitalism.