2011-2012 YEAR THREE - Cardiff University

Indicative Syllabus Content
a) Introduction to the study of citizens‘ political participation, journalism
and new media
b) Journalism, new media and public opinion
c) Social movements and traditional and new media
d) Twitter and televised debates: a more interactive representation of the
public sphere?
e) Journalism, new media and citizens‘ participation in elections
f) Journalism, new media and processes of democratisation: the ‗twitter
revolutions‘
g) Citizens‘ political participation and popular culture: political satire
and reality TV
h) Political institutions and citizens‘ political inclusion: e-democracy and
e-government
i) Journalism, new media and young citizens
Suggested Reading
Axford, Barrie and Richard Huggins (eds) (2001) New Media and Politics,
London: Sage.
Carpentier, Nico (forthcoming) Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-
Democratic Struggle, Bristol: Intellect.
Coleman, Stephen and Jay G. Blumler (2009) The Internet and Democratic
Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Dahlgren, Peter (2009) Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication
and Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hindman, Matthew (2009) The Myth of Digital Democracy, Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Lewis, Justin (2001) Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What
They Like and We Seem to Go Along with It, New York: Columbia
University Press.
Lewis, Justin, Sanna Inthorn and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (2005) Citizens or
Consumers? What the Media Tell Us about Political Participation,
Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Papacharissi, Zizi (ed.) (2009) Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas in
Communication, New York: Routledge.
Papacharissi, Zizi (2010) A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age,
Cambridge: Polity.
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