COMM 3840 - Media, Politics, and Democracy

3 hours (M)

Prerequisites: COMM 2050. Students in this course will examine the historical and contemporary relationship between media and democracy, with particular focus on the United States and other Western democratic nations. In doing so, the comparative role media’s relationship to democracy will be examined through an international context. Lastly, the media’s relationship to the modern political process will be looked at, particularly the exercise of media power by citizens as a platform for advocacy and social change.