Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU \u2013 Trondheim, invites applications for a PhD\/Research Course in Media, opinion and political behavior to be held in Trondheim from August 19th to 23th, 2013.<\/p>\n
Lecturer: Shanto Iyengar, Professor at Department of Communication and Department of Political Science, Stanford University and Adjunct Professor at Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU – Trondheim.<\/p>\n
Course code and title: POL8509 – Media, Opinion and Political Behavior<\/p>\n
Course dates: 19 – 23 August 2013 Course credits: 10 pts (ECTS) Deadline for application: August 1st, 2013.<\/p>\n
Semester fee: 430 NOK<\/p>\n
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To download the application form please follow the link below<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ntnu.edu\/c\/document_library\/get_file?uuid=c8c648ef-ad30-4116-a8f9-6c39f71ffb14&groupId=140138<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information please contact:<\/p>\n Senior Executive Officer Einar Gimse Syrstad,<\/p>\n Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU.<\/p>\n Phone: +47 73591705, e-mail: einar.syrstad@svt.ntnu.no<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Objectives <\/strong>The objective of this course is to survey the literature in political communication with an emphasis on empirical approaches to examining the interplay between news media use, political attitudes and voting behavior. The course will cover a variety of methodological approaches – both observational and experimental – for studying the effects of mass media. Although much of the work is based on American data, we incorporate cross-national studies and evidence where available. At the end of the term the student shall hand in a term paper where he\/she demonstrates the ability to discuss a related theme in an independent analytical manner. This paper should be at a high international level and written individually.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Reading needed for the course: <\/strong>Iyengar, Shanto (2011) Media Politics: A Citizen\u2019s Guide<\/em>. New York: W. W. Norton<\/p>\n All other course readings will be included in a compendium made available to participants in August (see lecture outline for details).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n LECTURE OUTLINE <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 1: <\/strong>News Media as a Political Institution <\/strong><\/p>\n Readings: Media Politics, Chapter 2; Curran et al., \u201cMedia System, Public Knowledge and Democracy: A Comparative Study;\u201d Iyengar et al., \u201cCross-National Versus Individual-Level Differences in Political Information: A Media Systems Perspective;\u201d Aalberg et al., \u201cMedia systems and the political information environment: A cross-national comparison\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 2: Explaining the Content and Reach of News Programming <\/strong><\/p>\n Readings: Media Politics, Chapters 3-5; Bennett, \u201cToward a theory of press-state relations;\u201d Hindman et al., \u201cGooglearchy: How a few Heavily-Linked Sites Dominate Politics on the Web;\u201d Iyengar et al., \u201cSelective exposure to campaign communication;\u201d Hamilton, All the News That\u2019s Fit to Print, pp. 137-56; Lawrence et al., \u201cSelf-segregation or deliberation: Blog readership, participation and polarization\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 3: Long-term influences on Public Opinion <\/strong><\/p>\n Readings: Almond and Verba, The Civic Culture, Chapter 1; Iyengar et al., \u201cFear and loathing in party politics;\u201d Kinder and Kam, Us Against Them, Chapter 2; Mondak et al., \u201cPersonality and civic engagement;\u201d Campbell et al., The American Voter, Chapter 6; Jennings, \u201cThe intergenerational transfer of political ideology in eight western nations;\u201d Vittrup and Holden, \u201cExploring the Impact of Educational Television and<\/p>\n Parent\u2013Child Discussions on Children\u2019s Racial Attitudes\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 4: Uninformed Opinion and Heuristics <\/strong><\/p>\n Readings: Achen and Bartels, \u201cBlind retrospection, electoral responses, flu, and shark attacks;\u201dLupia, \u201cShortcuts versus encyclopedias;\u201d Popkin, \u201cInformation shortcuts and the reasoning Voter;\u201d Kull et al., \u201cMedia, Misperceptions, and the Iraq War;\u201d Gordon and Segura, \u201cCross-national variation in the political sophistication of individuals: Capability or Choice?\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 5: Methodological Strategies for Media Effects Research <\/strong><\/p>\n Reading: Iyengar, \u201cLaboratory experiments in political science;\u201d Hovland, \u201cReconciling conflicting results derived from experimental and survey studies of attitude change;\u201d Vavreck and Iyengar, Vavreck & Iyengar, \u201cThe future of political communication research: Online panels and experimentation\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 6: Persuasion and Attitude Change <\/strong><\/p>\n Reading: Iyengar, Media Politics, pp. xx-xx; Zaller, \u201cA model of communication effects at the outbreak of the Gulf War;\u201d Mutz, \u201cCross-cutting social networks: Testing democratic theory in practice;\u201d Bennett and Iyengar, \u201cA new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of political communication\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 7: The Agenda-Setting Paradigm <\/strong><\/p>\n Reading: Iyengar, Media Politics, Chapter 8; Iyengar & Kinder, News That Matters, Chapters 3 & 7; Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Rune Stubager, \u201cThe political conditionality of mass media influence: When do parties follow mass media attention;\u201d Hart and Middleton, Priming, Projection, or Both? Reevaluating the Classic Media Priming Hypothesis; Walgrave and Van Aelst, \u201cThe Contingency of the Mass Media\u2019s<\/p>\n Political Agenda Setting Power: Toward a Preliminary Theory \u201c<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 8: Framing Effects <\/strong><\/p>\n Reading: Tversky & Kahneman, \u201cThe framing of decision and the psychology of choice;\u201d Scheufele and Iyengar, Handbook chapter on framing research; Chong & Druckman, Dynamics in mass communication effects research<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 9: Campaigns and Voting <\/strong><\/p>\n Reading: Iyengar, Media Politics, Chapter 9; Stevenson and Vavreck, \u201cDoes campaign length matter? Testing for cross-national effects;\u201d Iyengar & Petrocik, The impact of campaigns on party and approval-based voting;\u201d Arceneaux, \u201cDo Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis;\u201d Silver, \u201cModels, Models, Everywhere\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lecture 10: summarize and synthesize session <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The lecturer <\/strong>Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution as well as an adjunct professor of Communication at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU -Trondheim.<\/p>\n Iyengar’s teaching and research addresses the role of the news media and mass communication in contemporary politics. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen’s Guide <\/em>(W. W. Norton, 2011), Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate <\/em>(Free Press, 1995), Explorations in Political Psychology <\/em>(Duke University Press, 1993), and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion <\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 1987).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iyengar currently serves as the editor of Political Communication <\/em>(Taylor and Francis), an inter-disciplinary journal sponsored by the American Political Science Association and the International Communication Association.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iyengar’s research has been published by leading journals in political science and communication. He is also a regular contributor to Washingtonpost.com. His scholarly awards include the Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award for research in political communication, the Philip Converse Award for the best book in the field of public opinion (for News That Matters), the Goldsmith Book Prize (for Going Negative), and the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU \u2013 Trondheim, invites applications for a PhD\/Research Course in Media, opinion and political behavior to be held in Trondheim from August 19th to 23th, 2013. Lecturer: Shanto Iyengar, Professor at Department of Communication … Continue reading