2019/2020

2021/2022

DM270

SPS/04 (POLTICIAL SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Politica e amministrazione

3°

1st semester (27/09/2021 - 10/12/2021)

6

40 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

LEGNANTE GUIDO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Mass media and technology are narrowly connected with the mechanisms of public opinion formation and both élite and citizens behaviour.
The aim of the course is giving students knowledge and tools in order to analyse (theories, concepts,
empirical research)and undestand the relationships between elections, the processes of public opinion formation and the characteristics of the media. The course will put a prevalent focus on the Italian case in comparative perspective.

The topics dealt with will be: public opinion and electoral competition, polls and surveys; mass media and the technological revolution, politics on the media, electoral campaigns, 2018 and subsequent elections, the effect of the pandemic on political competition.

The course includes lectures, tasks and discussions.

1) G. Legnante (a cura di), Dispensa su Elezioni e opinione pubblica. Edizione 2021-2022 (available at the CLU bookshoop);
2) other texts which will be communicated at the beginning of the course and made available on the Kiro platform.

Oral (with eventual presentations and tasks to be planned with the professor).
The exam aims at testing students' competence (substantively and methodologically) in analysing the relationship between the processes of public opinion formation and élite, media and citizens.

4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.5, 5.b, 5.c, 13.3, 16.7
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