Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Marketing and Information´s Communication

Code

722051370

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Formação ao Longo da Vida

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Paula Ôchoa

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

a) To understand organizational communication and marketing functions and activities
b) to comprehend main principles of informationl behviour (profiles, needs, behaviours, life styles) in the new communication paradigms
c) To understand and be able to apply the marketing fundamental tecniques to services management: promotion, advertising and public relations

Prerequisites

Not applicable

Subject matter

1.Marketing and information services communication
•Marketing to non-lucrative organizations
•Creation and definition of marketing strategies
•Publics
•Information service
•Strategy tools: promotion, advertising and public relations
2.Marketing and information communication
•Rights of access to information
•Tools and products of promotion and communication of information and metainformation
•Literacies and users´ education
3. The new paradigms of network communication
•New patterns of comunication
•New contents and the “prossumer”. User as metainformation producer.New mediators
4. The service strategy: prodution and communication of contents to several media
•Prodution and edition of contents in traditional media and in the web
•Comunication and particiption management in web platforms
5. Strategy service: promotion, advertising and public relations
•Adverstising campaigns
•Public relations and events organization

Bibliography

Bell, A. (2009) Exploring web 2.0: second generation internet tools – blogs, podcasts, wikis, networking, virtual works and more. Georgetown: Katy Crossing Press
Deegan, M.; Sutherland, K. (eds.) (2009) Text editing, print and the digital world. Aldershot: Ashgate
Gronroos, C. (2007) Service management and marketing – customer management in service competition. Chichester: John Wiley.
Kotler, P.; Keller, K. (2006) Marketing management. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall

Teaching method

Lectures, tutorials and independent student work. The classes will have a theoretical and practical nature, consisting of a first moment of theoretical exposition of themes, concepts and vocabulary specific area, followed by practical exercises, oral presentations and discussions participated by students.

Evaluation method

The evaluation will be based on the following weighting:
- Written research work in group, Max. 20 pages (45%), oral presentation to the class (15%);
- Review of individual texts (30%) and participation (10%) in the classroom.

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