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Media, Social Media and Politics (SPS-REMUN-MED-24)

SPS-REMUN-MED-24


Department SPS
Course category SPS Research Seminar
Course type Seminar
Academic year 2024-2025
Term 2ND TERM
Credits 20 (EUI SPS Department)
Professors
Contact Altesini, Sofia
  Course materials
Sessions

07/01/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

14/01/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

21/01/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

28/01/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

04/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

11/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

18/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

25/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

04/03/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

11/03/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana
Enrollment info Contact sofia.altesini@eui.eu for enrolment details.

Purpose

This seminar covers recent and classic empirical research on the relationship between "the media" (broadly understood) and politics. The modern study of mass media influence originated in the 1940s and spans several social science disciplines. As we will see, the paradigms developed in the early years of that research program continue to influence scholars today--as well as to be debated and critiqued. Some of the canonical questions we will explore include the power of media messages to persuade; the extent to which media diets are ideologically slanted; and the role of new information technologies and social media on societal pathologies such as mass polarization.


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