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Course: 2024/2025

Politics and media

(17701)

Bachelor in History and Politics (Plan: 394 - Estudio: 352)

Coordinating teacher: SEOANE PEREZ, FRANCISCO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 4º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

The course has no specific prerequisites.

Objectives

- To know the role of the media in contemporary liberal democracies. - To know the actors who intervene in the process of political communication: governments, political parties, journalists, interest groups and social movements. - To know the main theories on the social influence of the media. - To know how to run an electoral campaign (interviews, debates, polls, ads, etc.)

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1.- Introduction to political communication 2.- Communication and community 3.- The public sphere 4.- Journalism and liberal democracy 5.- Propaganda 6.- Voting 7.- Parties and candidates 8.- Political advisors and consultants 9.- Interest groups and social movements 10.- The impact of the internet on political participation and news media consumption

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 30
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment

The final grade for this course will be result of the sum of the following items:
-	Class participation (10%).- In most practical training sessions, you will be completing small class assignments.   
-	Campaign memorandum (20%).- To be written in group or individually, this document will be a memory of your experience preparing the political campaign.
-	Political ad (20%).- To be produced in groups and be uploaded on Youtube (though you may decide not to make it public).
-	Essay (20%).- An individual essay on a topic to be determined by the instructor.
-	Final exam (30%).- An online-based quiz exam with 20 questions, to be completed in 20 minutes if taken online, within one hour if taken on-site. Wrong answers are not penalized more than blanks, so if unsure of which is the correct answer, try to guess.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Jeff Kosseff. Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023
Robert E. Denton Jr., Judith S. Trent, Robert V. Friedenberg. Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices. Rowman & Littlefield. 2019
Richard M. Perloff. The dynamics of political communication: Media and politics in a digital age. Routledge. 2018
Zac Gershberg, Sean Illing. The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion. University of Chicago Press. 2023

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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.