The News Media, Political Communication and Democracy

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course explores the impacts of UK and US news media on politics., and examines the complex interrelationship between media institutions, political actors and citizens. It pays particular attention to the changing forms of news media, and considers how media impacts political communications and influences behaviour across the political spectrum. The course also confronts important questions arising from the emergence of social media and online content as primary sources of news production and consumption. And it explores whether the modern UK and US news media helps create political polarization by catering to subjective identities at the expense of objective truths.