Schedule/Readings

E-Reserves

Guidelines for analytical reading:
-Who wrote this? What can I find out about this person from the text and/or a Google search (e.g. Current position/institution? Conferences attended in the last 3 years? PhD earned where and in what field? Publication outlets?)?
-When was the text published? (note that data may be 2-5 years old by publication year)
-What is the author's aim?
-What question(s) does s/he seek to answer?
-What is the main argument?
-What are the main themes & key points?
-How does this text relate to other texts assigned for today?
-How does this text related to the course as a whole? (e.g. objectives, themes, etc)
-What are the strengths and weaknesses of the argument? The methods?
-What questions does this text raise for me?

Schedule

* indicates that the author will visit class on this day.

W 9/29 Intro and history of political communication
Handbook: Introduction & Ch.1 Rogers, "Theoretical diversity in political communication".

M 10/4 Mapping the terrain of political communication: functionalist, structuralist and critical approaches
Lazarsfeld, P. F. (1941). Remarks on administrative and critical communications research. In P. F. Lazarsfeld (Ed.), Studies in philosophy and social science (Vol. 9, pp. 1-17): Institute of Social Research.
Gitlin, T. (1981). Media sociology: The dominant paradigm. In G. C. Wilhoit & H. De Bock (Eds.), Mass communication review yearbook (Vol. 2, pp. 73-121).
Garnham, N. (1990). Media theory and the political future of mass communication. In N. Garnham (Ed.), Capitalism and communication (pp. 1-19). New York: Sage.
Wahl-Jorgenson, K., (2004). "How not to found a field: New evidence on the origins of mass communication research", Journal of Communication 54(3): 547-564.
Handbook: Ch. 3 Graber, "Methodological developments in political communication research" Graber & Ch. 4 Lin, "Fragmentation of the structure of political communication research".

BROWSE the following articles as examples of structuralist, functionalist, critical or "combo" political communication research (all are available online, not in reading packet):
Park, H. W., C.-S. Kim, et al. (2004). "Socio-communicational structure among political actors on the Web." New Media & Society 6(3): 403-423. (access journal via UW E-Journals from http://lib.washington.edu/types/ejournals/N.html/)
Lupia, A. and T. S. Philpot "Views from inside the Net: How websites affect young adults' political interest." http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lupia/tasha.pdf
(unpublished manuscript)
Foot, K. A. and S. M. Schneider (In press). "Online Structure for Civic Engagement in the Post-9/11 Web Sphere." Electronic Journal of Communication. http://faculty.washington.edu/kfoot/Publications/040228.Post911-EJOC-final.pdf

W 10/6 Studying news coverage of politics, political issues & political institutions
Handbook Ch. 10 Weaver et al, "Agenda-setting research: Issues, attributes and influences"
Carragee, K. M. and W. Roefs (2004). "The neglect of power in recent framing research." Journal of Communication 54(2): 214-233.
Handbook Ch. 11 Bennett, "Gatekeeping and press-government relations: A multigated model of news construction".
*Smith, M. A. (2004). Political communication and the policymaking process: An integrative model. (unpublished manuscript)

BROWSE Handbook Ch. 2 Newman & Perloff, "Political marketing" and Ch. Haynes, "Design and creation of a controlled vocabulary for political communication".

M 10/11 Studying news coverage of politics, political issues & political institutions (2)

Bennett, W. L., V. W. Pickard, et al. (2004). "Managing the public sphere: Journalistic construction of the great globalization debate." Journal of Communication 54(3): 437-455.
*Domke, D., P. Garland, et al. (2003). "Insights into U.S. racial hierarchy: Racial profiling, news sources, and September 11." Journal of Communication 53(4): 606-623.
Hutcheson, J., D. Domke, et al. (2004). "U.S. national identity, political elites, and a patriotic press following September 11." Political Communication 21: 27-51.
Syllabi review due.

W 10/13 Press & Politics (3)
Norris, P. (2000). A virtuous circle: Political communications in postindustrial societies. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA, Cambridge University Press. (Read chs. 1-3, 9-14; browse chs. 4-8)
Bennett, W. L. (2004). "Transnational communication regimes and civic cultures." Annual Review of Political Science 7: 125-148.

M 10/18 Deliberation & civic engagement
Burkhalter, S., J. Gastil, et al. (2002). "A conceptual definition and theoretical model of public deliberation in small face-to-face groups." Communication Theory 12(4): 398-422.
Gastil, J., P. Deess, et al. (2002). "Civic awakening in the jury room: A test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation." The Journal of Politics 64(2): 585-595.
Price, V. and J. N. Capella (2002). "Online deliberation and its influence: The electronic dialogue project in Campaign 2000." IT & Society 1(1): 303-329.
Handbook Ch. 15 Delli Carpini, "Mediating democratic engagement: The impact of communications on citizens' involvement in political and civic life.

W 10/20 NO CLASS

M 10/25 Public opinion
Handbook Ch. 13, Noelle-Neumann & Petersen "The spiral of silence and the social nature of man"
Mutz, D. (1998). Impersonal influence: How perceptions of mass collectives affect political attitudes. New York, Cambridge University Press. (Read chs. 1-3, 8-9, browse chs. 4-7)

W 10/27 Public opinion (2)
Handbook Ch. 14 Sotirovic and McLeod, "Knowledge as understanding: The information processing approach to political learning".
Althaus, S. (2003). Ch.1, "Introduction", from Collective preferences in democratic politics: opinion surveys and the will of the people. New York, Cambridge University Press.
McCleod, J. M., D. A. Scheufele, et al. (1999). "Community, communication, and participation: The role of mass media and interpersonal discussion in local political participation." Political Communication 16(3): 315-336.
* Moy, P., M. McCluskey, et al. (2004). "Political correlates of local news media use." Journal of Communication 54(3): 532-546.

M 11/1 (11/2 Election Day) News coverage of elections, and the Internet & politics
Handbook: Ch. 9 Gulati et al, "News coverage of political campaigns", and Ch. 12 McKay & Paletz, "The Presidency and the Media".
Handbook Ch. 19 Tedesco, "Changing the channel: Use of the Internet for communicating about politics"
Graber, D., B. Bimber, et al, (2004). The Internet and politics: Emerging perspectives. Academy and the Internet. H. Nissenbaum and M. E. Price, Lang Publishers.
Journal review due.

W 11/3 ICTs, electoral politics and news coverage
Margolis, M. & Resnick, D., (2000) Ch. 1 "The normalization of cyberspace", Ch. 3 "Parties and interest groups", and Ch. 9 "Democracy and cyberspace: A peek into the future", from Politics as usual: The cyberspace "revolution", Sage.
Foot, K., S. M. Schneider, et al. (unpublished manuscript). "The influence of political-structural factors on candidates' Web practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate and gubernatorial elections."
Foot, K. A. and S. M. Schneider (2002). "Online action in Campaign 2000: An exploratory analysis of the U.S. political Web sphere." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 46(2): 222-244.
Iyengar, S. and S. Jackman (2003). Can information technology engergize voters? Experimental evidence from the 2000 and 2002 campaigns. American Political Science Association, Philadelphia. http://pcl.stanford.edu/common/docs/research/iyengar/2003/energize.pdf

BROWSE Iyengar, S. (2002). Experimental Designs for Political Communication Research: From Shopping Malls to the Internet. Workshop in Mass Media Economics, Department of Political Science, London School of Economics and the Web site of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford: http://pcl.stanford.edu/index.html

M 11/8 NO CLASS
W 11/10 NO CLASS

M 11/15 Political messages
Handbook Ch. 6 Gronbeck, "Rhetoric and politics", Ch. 7 Kaid, "Political advertising", and Ch. 8 McKinney and Carlin, "Political campaign debates".
Literature review essays due in class.

W 11/17 ICTs & political culture
Malina, A. (1999). Perspectives on citizen democratization and alienation in the virtual public sphere. Digital democracy: Discourse and decision making in the information age. B. N. Hague and B. Loader. New York, Routledge.
*Howard, P. N. (2003). "Digitizing the social contract: Producing American political culture in the age of new media." The Communication Review 6: 213-245.
Howard, P. N. and T. J. Milstein (2004). Spiders, spam, and spyware: New media and the market for political information. Internet Studies 1.0. M. Consalvo (Ed.), Peter Lang.

M 11/22 Information politics & issue advocacy
Rogers, R. (2002). "Operating issue networks on the Web." Science as Culture 11(2): 191-214.
*Bennett, W. L. (2003). "Communicating global activism: Strengths and vulnerabilities of networked politics." Information, Communication & Society 6(2): 143-168.

W 11/24 Information politics & policymaking
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2004). The anarchist in the library: How the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world. New York, Basic Books. (Read chs. Introduction, 1-3, 10-12, browse chs.4-9)
*Jones, B. and F. Baumgartner (2004). How government processes information and prioritizes problems. The politics of attention: How government prioritizes problems. (unpublished manuscript) <Bryan Jones will visit class 1:30-2pm on 12/1>

M 11/29 NO CLASS

W 12/1 International perspectives on political communication
Handbook Ch. 17 Holtz-Bacha, "Political communication research abroad: Europe" and Ch. 18 Willnat and Aw, "Political communication in Asia, Challenges and opportunities".
Golding, P., & Murdock, G. (1991). Culture, communications, and political economy. In J. Curran & M. Gurevitch (Eds.), Mass media and society (pp. 15-32). New York: Hodder & Stoughton.

M 12/6 Presentations - schedule to be determined
W 12/8 Presentations - schedule to be determined

Turn in final paper by noon on Monday, December 13 (office mailbox).