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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Štětka, Ph.D. (13.02.2015)
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Štětka, Ph.D. (13.02.2015)
Requirements: - attendance and active involvement in discussions (15%) (max. 3 absences) - summary (300-400 words) from the readings before each class (min. 5; 25%) - oral presentation (case study) (15%) - final team project (25%) - final test [OPTIONAL] (20%) |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Štětka, Ph.D. (30.08.2014)
McNair, B. (2011). An introduction to political communication. Taylor & Francis. Lilleker, D. G. (2014). Political Communication and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan. Semetko, H. A., & Scammell, M. (Eds.). (2012). The SAGE handbook of political communication. SAGE Publications. Dahlgren, P. (2013). The political web. Palgrave Macmillan. Papacharissi, Z.A. (2010). A private sphere. Democracy in a digital age. Polity. Howard, P. N. (2006). New media campaigns and the managed citizen. Cambridge University Press. Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. N. (Eds.). (2010). Routledge handbook of Internet politics. Taylor & Francis. Chadwick, A. (2013). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. Oxford University Press. Castells, M. (2013). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. John Wiley & Sons. Howard, P. N., & Hussain, M. M. (2013). Democracy's fourth wave? Digital media and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Štětka, Ph.D. (13.02.2015)
SYLLABUS
Political Communication and New Media Time & place: Monday 14.00-15.30, room H112 ECTS Credits: 6 Lecturer: Václav Štětka, Ph.D. Contact: stetka@fsv.cuni.cz ; Skype: vaclavstetka ; Office hours: Monday 15.30-17.00
The aim of this course is to provide the students with an introduction into the field of political communication and its contemporary transformations under the influence of new media and social network sites. Particularly, it will focus on the new opportunities the rise of digital and mobile communication technologies has brought to political actors, and on the changing nature of the relationship between politicians, citizens and journalists in light of the newly emerging ways to communicate politics, organize collective action and influence public agenda through the Internet and Web 2.0 platforms. Following a brief summary of the historical evolution of political communication research, this course will discuss the process of the adoption of new media by politicians and political parties, as well as the increasing role of social network sites (SNSs) in political campaigning across the Western world. In addition, attention will also be paid to the potential of new media to stimulate political engagement and enhance or even replace the established forms of political and civic participation. In this context, the course will overview some specific examples of political activism and protest movements facilitated and aided by social media, such as the Occupy movement, the 15-M Movement or the "Arab Spring", and debate the role of social media as possible instruments of democratization.
Requirements: - attendance and active involvement in discussions (15%) (max. 3 absences) - summary (300-400 words) from the readings before each class (min. 5; 25%) - oral presentation (case study) (15%) - final team project (25%) - final test [OPTIONAL] (20%)
ALL READINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE VIA THE SIS
Course structure: Week 1 (16.2.): Introduction to the course, course requirements ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 2 (23.2.): Politics and the media: Four ages of political communication
Readings: Blumler, Jay and Kavannagh, Dennis (1999) The Third Age of Political Communication: Influences and Features, Political Communication, 16:3, 209-230 Blumler, Jay (2005) "The Fourth Age of Political Communication". Keynote address at the a Workshop on Political Communication Online, the Free University of Berlin, September 12, 2013. ___________________________________________________________________________ Week 3 (2.3.): Democracy and political engagement in the age of Internet Readings: Stephen Coleman & Jay G. Blumler (2012) The Internet and Citizenship: Democratic Opportunity or More of the Same? In Holli A. Semetko & Margaret Scammell (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication. London: SAGE, pp. 141-153 Jack M. McLeo; Nam-Jin Lee (2012) Social Networks, Public Discussion and Civic Engagement: A Socialization Perspective. In Holli A. Semetko & Margaret Scammell (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication. London: SAGE, pp. 197-209
Presentations: (1) Norris, P. (2000). A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies. Cambridge University Press. Chap. 14: A Virtuous Circle?, pp. 309-319.
___________________________________________________________________________ Week 4 (9.3.): New media in campaign communication (1): towards hypermedia campaigning Readings: Howard, P. N. 2006. New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Hypermedia Campaign, pp. 1-27.
Presentations (case studies): (2) Howard Dean 2004 Campaign Recommended source: Hindman, M. 2005. "The Real Lessons of Howard Dean: Reflections on the First Digital Campaign". Perspectives on Politics 3(1): 121-128. (3) Barack Obama 2008 Campaign Recommended sources: Stromer-Galley, J. 2014. Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age "Ch 5: 2008: Networked Campaigning and Controlled Interactivity", pp. 104-139. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Cogburn, D. L. & F. K. Espinoza-Vasquez. 2011. "From Networked Nominee to Networked Nation: Examining the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Media on Political Participation and Civic Engagement in the 2008 Obama Campaign". Journal of Political Marketing 10(1-2): 189-213. (4) Nicolas Sarkozy / Segolene Royal 2007 Campaign Recommended source: Lilleker, D. G., & Malagón, C. (2010). Levels of Interactivity in the 2007 French Presidential Candidates’ Websites. European Journal of Communication, 25(1), 25-42. doi:10.1177/0267323109354231
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Week 5 (16.3.): New media in campaign communication (2): big data and networked campaigning Readings: Stromer-Galley, J. 2014. Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age "Ch 6: 2012: Data-Driven Networked Campaigning", pp. 140-170. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Presentations: (5) Tufekci, Z. (2014). Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics. First Monday, 19(7). Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4901 (6) Kreiss, D. 2014. "Seizing the Moment: The Presidential Campaigns’ Use of Twitter During the 2012 Electoral Cycle". New Media & Society (Online First). ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 6 (23.3.):New media in campaign communication (3): adoption of SNSs by political actors across Europe Readings: Larsson, A. O., & Kalsnes, B. (2014). "Of course we are on Facebook": Use and non-use of social media among Swedish and Norwegian politicians. European Journal of Communication, pp.1-16. Presentations (case studies): (7) Adoption and use of social media by political actors in [YOUR COUNTRY] (8) Adoption and use of social media by political actors in [YOUR COUNTRY]
Week 7 (30.3.): Social media and civic activism (1) Readings:
Bennett, W. L. & A. Segerberg. 2012. "The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics." Information, Communication & Society 15(5): 739-768.
Presentations: (9) Occupy Wall Street
Recommended reading: Dahlgren, Peter (2013) Occupy Wall Street: Discursive Strategies and Fields. Chap.4 in The Political Web. Media, Participation and Alternative Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 67-87. (10) M15 / los indignados ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 8 (Easter Monday): Reading Week Readings: Coleman Stephen and Blumler, Jay G. (2009) The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5: E-democracy from below, pp.117-138.
Neuman, W. R., B. Bimber & M. Hindman. 2011. "The Internet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship". In: The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media, Eds. R. Y. Shapiro & L. R. Jacobs, et al., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 22-42. W. Lance Bennett; Deen G. Freelon; Muzammil M. Hussain; Chris Wells (2012) Digital Media and Youth Engagement. In Holli A. Semetko & Margaret Scammell (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication. London: SAGE, pp. 127-141
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Week 9 (13.4.): New media and democratization: the Arab Spring Readings: Tufekci, Z. & C. Wilson. 2012. "Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square". Journal of Communication 62(2): 363-379. Presentations (case studies): (11) Social media and political activism: the case of Turkey (12) Social media and political activism: Bulgaria 2013/2014 protests (13) Role of social media in the conflict in Ukraine (14) Social media and political activism [YOUR COUNTRY] __________________________________________________________________________
Week 10 (20.4.): Social media and civic activism (2): critical perspectives Readings: Morozov, E. (2009). Foreign Policy: Brave New World Of Slacktivism. Retrieved January 6, 2015, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104302141 Howard, E. (2014, September 24). How "clicktivism" has changed the face of political campaigns. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/24/clicktivism-changed-political-campaigns-38-degrees-change McCafferty, D. (2011). Activism vs. Slacktivism. Commun. ACM, 54(12), 17-19. doi:10.1145/2043174.2043182 ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 11 (27.4.): Debating politics online: communities or cyberghettoes? Readings: Farrell, H. 2012. "The Consequences of the Internet for Politics." Annual Review of Political Science 15: 35-52.
Presentations: (15) McPherson, M., L. Smith-Lovin & J. M. Cook. 2001. "Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks". Annual Review of Sociology 27: 415-444. (16) Freelon, D. 2010. "Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication". New Media & Society 12(7): 1172-1190.z ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 12 (4.5.): Journalism and political agenda-setting in the age of social network sites
Readings: Chadwick, A. 2013. The Hybrid Media System. Politics and Power. Chapter 4: The Political Information Cycle, pp. 60-88. ___________________________________________________________________________
Week 13 (11.5.): Presentations of team projects
For the team projects, students will be divided into 4-5 teams. Each team will be analysing the use of social media in following campaigns/elections: A) Parliamentary Elections in Estonia (March 2015) B) Parliamentary Elections in Finland (April 2015) C) General Elections in the UK (May 2015) D) Presidential Elections in Poland (May 2015) E) Any other elections/campaign to take place during the semester in a chosen country
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Additional resources:
McNair, B. (2011). An introduction to political communication. Taylor & Francis. Lilleker, D. G. (2014). Political Communication and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan. Semetko, H. A., & Scammell, M. (Eds.). (2012). The SAGE handbook of political communication. SAGE Publications. Dahlgren, P. (2013). The political web. Palgrave Macmillan. Papacharissi, Z.A. (2010). A private sphere. Democracy in a digital age. Polity. Howard, P. N. (2006). New media campaigns and the managed citizen. Cambridge University Press. Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. N. (Eds.). (2010). Routledge handbook of Internet politics. Taylor & Francis. Chadwick, A. (2013). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. Oxford University Press. Castells, M. (2013). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. John Wiley & Sons. Howard, P. N., & Hussain, M. M. (2013). Democracy's fourth wave? Digital media and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. Coleman Stephen and Blumler, Jay G. (2009) The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. Introduction, pp.1-14.
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