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Political Communication

Code	15743
Year	1
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(30H)
Scientific area	Ciência Política
Entry requirements	-- None.
Mode of delivery	-- Face-to-face.
Work placements	-- None.
Learning outcomes	-- The students must acquire an historical and comprehensive vision of the origins and functions of political communication in contemporary societies. -- 1) To delimitate the concept of political communication; 2) To identify and to describe the main models of political communication in contemporary societies; 3) To examine and to evaluate the role of the mass media in the making of the political communication.
Syllabus	1. «Political communication»: Defining the concept 2. Crowds, Public, Audiences 3. The engineering of consent: pulling the wires wich control the public mind 4. Compliance professionals: Storytelling and Spinning 5. Public opinion and propaganda: the planning and the management of the public mind 6. The analytical idiom of propaganda 7. Political espionage 8. António de Oliveira Salazar: case study of political communication
Main Bibliography	1. Lilleker, Darren G., Key Concepts in Political Communication, Sage Publications Ltd, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, 2005. 2. Le Bon, Gustave, Psicologia das Multidões, Edições Roger Delraux, Porto, 1985. 3. Herman, Edward S., & Chomsky, Noam, Manufacturing Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media, The Bodley Head, London, 2008. 4. Ferro, António, Entrevistas a Salazar, Parceria A. M. Pereira, Lisboa, 2007. 5. Essays written by the teacher, which he will provide to students at each session
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	- The teaching methodology makes it possible to attain the main objectives defined for this curricular unit. Through the analysis of real political communication case studies, through the reading and comment of mass media articles and the group discussion and analyses of relevant political communication related topics, the students will be endowed with useful knowledge to the development of their ability to research, to argue and to solve problems related to this curricular unit. Through the elaboration of group discussions about paradigmatic political communication cases, students will improve their critical sense and interpretative capabilities. In turn, the written test will allow teacher to validate if the student acquired the competences in terms of knowledge, understanding and applicability of the syllabus.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.