Checking date: 07/05/2020


Course: 2019/2020

Politics and media
(17701)
Bachelor in History and Politics (Plan: 394 - Estudio: 352)


Coordinating teacher: ALBORNOZ ESPIÑEIRA, LUIS ALFONSO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Description of contents: programme
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
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

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