Politics and the Mass Media

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course introduces students to the study of politics and the mass media. Few Canadians actually have the opportunity to attend the machinations of politics first hand, and thus must rely on the mass media to provide them with information about what elected officials are saying and doing. News is constructed within the journalist paradigms and the delivery of news is highly mediated. This course examines what news is and how politicians are both manipulators of and manipulated by the news that's accessed daily. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and POL-3424.