UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIAFACOLTA’ DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA, SC. POLITICHE, GIURISPRUDENZA
CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE INTERDIPARTIMENTALE IN COMUNICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE E MULTIMEDIALE
MOON IMAGES AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS
Relatore: Chiar.mo Prof. Mario Dossoni Tesi di Laurea di Correlatore: Sara BesiaChiar.ma Prof.ssa Federica Da Milano
Anno Accademico 2012/2013
INTRODUCTION
MOON: the natural satellite of the earth, visible by reflected light from the sun.
Religious cults, myths, legends and popular beliefs
DEFINITION of REPRESENTATION
REPRESENTATION: the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way. It constitutes the determinant
reference for interpersonal and social communication.
Verbal Symbolic
Social Cohesion
EMILIE DURKHEIM
Individual Consciousness
Collective Consciousness
SERGE MOSCOVICI
A social representation is a stock of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that are
shared among the members of groups and communities.
The purpose of all representations is to make familiar something which is unusual or
unknown
The Moon in the antiquity
Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome Cartagine Japan
The first observations of the MoonGalileo Galilei
Mount Palomar Hale telescope
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Satellite Lunik III
Moon, Literature and Cinema
Ludovico AriostoGeorge Méliès
Popular Beliefs
The moon landing of 1969
Moon and Advertising
“Everyone is a moon, and
has a dark side which he
never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain
THE END
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