MEDIA AND POLITICS B A POLITICAL SCIENCE: OPEN COURSE 6D04 POL

Unit I              Introduction

a)Communication, Media, Society and Politics.

b)Theories of Political Impacts of Media

1)Pluralsi Model,2)Dominanat Ideology Model,3)Market Model,4)Elite Value Model

Unit II             Mass Media and Political Communication

a)Political Communicators.

b)Context of  Political Communication: Historical, Economical, Techonological, Organisational, Legal and Cultural

c)Characteristics of Mass Media:Print and Electronic,Social Media d)Overview of  Major  Global and National Media

Unit III           Politics in the Media Age

a)Forms of Political Communication

1)Direct: 2)Indirect:

b)Mass Media and Election:Political Mobilisation

c)Role of  Media in Different Political Systems

d)Mass Media and Public Sphere

Unit IV           Media & Public Policy .

Media in the Constitutional Framework

Media Freedom

Media Regulatory Framework

Media Ethics: Self-Censorship Vs State Regulation

Media Ownership: Public Private and Foreign Investment

Unit V             The Media and Social Capital

Soft News, Infotainment, Culture Industry

The Nature of News in the Twenty-first Century:Critique

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