The educational mission of the program is to give students theoretical and applied knowledge in the field of media, communication and culture. The innovation of this master’s program in academic plan consists in looking for intersections between the fields of contemporary media research: theory of communication, the media as element of the democratic public sphere, cultural studies and issues of intercultural dialogue.
The program focusses on the relationship between communication theory and cultural studies with anthropological research, different methods of discourse analysis, media studies and cultural anthropology, the role of the media in establishing various forms of identity (group, collective, professional, cultural, national identity, etc.), with popular culture, cultural and creative industries. Another major thematic range advocated by the program examines the links between the media and the social and political economies of society: from local TV stations and the advertising market to multimedia products, online media and offline markets, the effects of the digital turn on the ongoing mediatisation of culture.