To introduce students to political communication and rhetoric and to the relationship between media and politics.
Contents
Learning about research on political communication and rhetoric and the relationship between media and politics.
Modes of study
Lectures, a book exam (see literature) and/or a compensatory essay to be agreed on with the teacher in charge.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
Charteris-Black, Politicians and Rhetoric. Persuasive Power of Metaphor. Palgrave 2004 (2 ECTS); Palonen - Summa (eds.), Pelkkää retoriikkaa. Vastapaino 1998 (1 ECTS); Meyer, Media Democracy. How the Media Colonize Politics. Polity Press 2002. (2 ECTS)