COMM 8100 - Publics and Politics

3 Credit Hours
Description
Many terms try to clarify agents of collective action, including publics, movements, parties, classes, crowds, swarms, and others. How do these terms explain social and historical change? How do mediating technologies alter political possibilities and constraints? The course explores accounts of publicity, including the rhetorical and mass communication traditions, American pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, post-Marxism, and others.