Mass Media and Politics

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

An examination of the relationship between news media, the public, and democracy. The state of contemporary journalism, emphasizing the key economic, organizational, social, technological, and other factors that influence editorial content and shape and constrain news production. Topics include the role of mass media in a democracy, political economy approaches to media analysis, institutional studies of news-making, effects of mass media on the public and politics, the political significance of entertainment media, media and foreign policymaking, propaganda and campaign advertising, and the internet and politics.