PART 1:
1. Democracy and Mass Media
2. Information, fiction, and public opinion
3. From propaganda to the rhetoric of transparency
4. Politics in the Internet: participation and control
5. Media and social change
PART 2:
1. Conceptualization and historic evolution of the media in the political arena
2. Media, agenda-setting and public opinion.
3. Types and styles of communication in collective political actors
4. Electoral campaigns
5. Research methods and techniques applied to political communication