COMM 173
Affect and Emotion in Political Communication
Description: Lecture, three hours. There is growing body of work in political communication that emphasizes importance of affect, emotion, and personality in politics. Sensitivity to threat or disgust; reactions of fear, anger, or happiness; tendency to focus more on negative than on positive information--each of these can impact feelings about candidates, and positions on wide range of domestic and foreign issues. Many of these feelings are in reaction to mass-mediated information; and changing media technologies likely increases volume of affective or emotional content reaching public. Review of recent work on these themes, drawn from both media psychology and political communication. Letter grading.
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Fall 2024 - I honestly really liked this class, and it was cool taking it during the presidential election so we could relate the material to current events. We also talked about the election debates and he asked us what our thoughts were. The main thing that I didn't like was participation grade because the election debates were not a part of the required reading, but participation matters but I wouldn't know what to say. I thought that the essays were straightforward though and you can use first person. I heard some other people got marked down though but make sure to cite correctly and use et al. every time if there are multiple authors. I would take notes and use that to help me summarize for the essays and then relate the readings and other events to each other. If you do the readings before class, that can help you participate more too. The main thing is to make sure to participate so you should go to class and the slides were helpful too when we discussed it. You don't always have to read everything beforehand and no one is checking, but the main thing is that it can help you to participate more.
Fall 2024 - I honestly really liked this class, and it was cool taking it during the presidential election so we could relate the material to current events. We also talked about the election debates and he asked us what our thoughts were. The main thing that I didn't like was participation grade because the election debates were not a part of the required reading, but participation matters but I wouldn't know what to say. I thought that the essays were straightforward though and you can use first person. I heard some other people got marked down though but make sure to cite correctly and use et al. every time if there are multiple authors. I would take notes and use that to help me summarize for the essays and then relate the readings and other events to each other. If you do the readings before class, that can help you participate more too. The main thing is to make sure to participate so you should go to class and the slides were helpful too when we discussed it. You don't always have to read everything beforehand and no one is checking, but the main thing is that it can help you to participate more.
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