Introduction to Communication and Media Studies Information Skills Writing and Communication Skills Image Theory

1. Ability to identify basic psychological processes in communication (R1, CG4, CE3). 2. Basic knowledge of psychological functions and mechanisms involved in communication processes (R1, CG3, CG6, CE5). 3. Ability to identify and understand psychological dimensions in reception processes. Knowledge to identify and understand psychological effects of media on human development (R2, CE3). 4. Introductory knowledge about mediations and the ecological system of mediations in human mind (R2, CE5).

MODULE 1. Essentials of psychophysics and phenomenology of the spectatorship experience in pre-cinema and in early cinema 1.1. Reality as a sign system. 1.2. Essentials of the psychophysics of perception in the moving image. 1.3. The assimilation of the representational patterns of the moving image and the building of the pectatorship. MODULE 2. Narrative cinema as a desiring journey 2.1. Construction and perception of the cinematic message through the continuity. 2.2. The Cinematic Identifications. 2.3. The associative logic of the dreams and the subversión of reality. 2.4. The cinema of attractions: fascination and the emotional shock. MODULE 3. Building emotions on cinema and on the media 3.1. Building emotions on cinema and on the media I 3.2. Building emotions on cinema and on the media II 3.3. Building emotions on cinema and on the media III 3.4. Building emotions on cinema and on the media IV MODULE 4. New modes of perception in the digital era. Autenticity and spectacle 4.1. Information logics and the perception of reality in the digital era. 4.2. The logic of spectacle and the return to the cinema of attractions. 4.3. Cinema, reality, and the missing trace. Phenomenology of perception in the present time.

1. Lectures or class presentations on psychological processes, mediation and reception. Reasoned and interactive presentation supported by slides presentations and/or audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the subject are developed and the materials and bibliography are provided to complement the students' learning. 1,5 ECTS (R1, R6) 2. Seminars, classroom and everyday experiences in psychological processes concerning basic functions. 1 ECTS (R2, R3). 3. Student's work (R1, R2, R3, R4) -Supervised study of the theoretical and practical contents and teaching materials. 1,3 ECTS (CG4, CG6, R1, R6, CE3, CE5). -Term papers. Writing an academic essay on technology and media processes applying the program's theoretical and practical criteria. 2 ECTS (CG4, CB1, CB5 R2, R3, R10). 4. Tutoring sessions. . Individualized attendance (individual tutoring sessions) or in-group (group tutoring sessions) for students with teacher as tutor. 0,2 ECTS. Use of Artificial Intelligence tools selectively allowed in this subject. The faculty may indicate a list of works and exercises that the student can perform using AI tools, specifying how they should be used, and how the student should describe the use made of them. If the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Regulation of the University Carlos III of Madrid of partial development of the Law 3/2022, of February 24th, of University Coexistence will be applied.