Universität Wien

220028 VO VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective (2020S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 22 - Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Moodle

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 10.03. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde
  • Tuesday 24.03. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde
  • Tuesday 28.04. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde
  • Tuesday 12.05. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde
  • Tuesday 09.06. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde
  • Tuesday 30.06. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 1 2H316 UZA II Rotunde

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Political communication research focuses on how information spreads and influences political, social, and media environment. This course aims to introduce the relationship between media and politics – two complex systems, which correlate in different areas and have a strong impact on society. In this course, students will have an opportunity to explore and discuss questions regarding the role of the media in politics, media governance, and the relation to democracy and citizenship. Students will gain advanced knowledge and skills to critically analyze information and theoretical perspectives into the following topics:

• Media, politics, and democracy
• Media and political campaigns
• Media and citizenship
• Social media
• Public sphere
• Freedom of expression
• Political communication

Assessment and permitted materials

There will be a final exam for this class, worth 100% of the final grade. Questions will be based on the material presented in class and the readings available on Moodle.
UPDATE DUE TO COVID-19 MEASURES:
The examination on 7 July 2020 will be held online on Moodle. There will be 8 short-answer questions worth 5 points each and 2 open-ended questions worth 30 points each. Please read the announcements on Moodle regularly for details and updates about future examination dates.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

A = 1 (Very Good): 87 - 100%
B = 2 (Good): 75 - 86,99%
C = 3 (Satisfactory): 63 - 74,99%
D = 4 (Enough): 50 - 62,99%
F = 5 (Not Enough): 00 - 49,99%

For questions, please contact ani.baghumyan@univie.ac.at or aytalina.kulichkina@univie.ac.at

Examination topics

Readings will be assigned weekly and discussed in class. All literature will be available on Moodle.

Reading list

• Gil de Zúñiga, H., Diehl, T., Huber, B., & Liu, J. (2017). Personality traits and social media use in 20 countries: How personality relates to frequency of social media use, social media news use, and social media use for social interaction. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(9), 540-552.
• Valenzuela, S., Correa, T., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2018). Ties, likes, and tweets: Using strong and weak ties to explain differences in protest participation across Facebook and Twitter use. Political Communication, 35(1), 117-134.
• Enli, G. (2017). Twitter as arena for the authentic outsider: exploring the social media campaigns of Trump and Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. European Journal of Communication, 32(1), 50-61.
• Litt, E., & Hargittai, E. (2016). The imagined audience on social network sites. Social Media and Society, 2(1), 2056305116633482.
• Gruzd, A., Wellman, B., & Takhteyev, Y. (2011). Imagining Twitter as an imagined community. American Behavioral Scientist, 55(10), 1294-1318.
• Bode, L. (2016). Political news in the news feed: Learning politics from social media. Mass Communication and Society, 19(1), 24-48.
• Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science, 348(6239), 1130-1132.
• Ferrucci, P., Hopp, T., & Vargo, C. J. (2019). Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook. New Media & Society, 1461444819873110.
• Gil de Zúñiga, H., Barnidge, M., & Scherman, A. (2017). Social media social capital, offline social capital, and citizenship: Exploring asymmetrical social capital effects. Political Communication, 34(1), 44-68.
• Gil de Zúñiga, H., & Diehl, T. (2019). News finds me perception and democracy: Effects on political knowledge, political interest, and voting. New Media & Society, 21(6), 1253-1271.
• Gil de Zúñiga, H., Weeks, B., & Ardèvol-Abreu, A. (2017). Effects of the news-finds-me perception in communication: Social media use implications for news seeking and learning about politics. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 22(3), 105-123.

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