Course code

RIP7024.YK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Poliitiline kommunikatsioon

Course title in English

Political Communication

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Mari-Liis Jakobson (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2026/2027 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Communication is an important strategic function in societal and political processes. The developments over past few decades have shown a particularly significant impact of mediated communication. The aim of the given subject is to give an overview of the discipline of political communication and its applicability in the analysis of various socio-political processes. The course is organized to cover different subfields of political science and therefore gives an alternative input into the student's field of specialization. The objective of the course is to give both an academic overview as well as a venue for analyzing empirical cases both in institutsional processes (elections, functioning of parties, state and media institutions) as well as the grass-root processes (political culture, public sphere, civic

Brief description of the course

Political communication as an object of inquiry. The arenas and actors in the field of political communication, and their arsenal. Technological determinism and the impact of different media. Mediatisation and media democracy. The transforming public sphere. Electoral communications, political campaigning. Governance as political communication: the public sector and its communicativeness.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows and can apply the fundamental concepts and models of political communication;
- can link different political communication theories with practical examples, including their own activities in the field of political communication;
- understands the political communication aspects of political processes (politics, governance, democracy) and political transformations (mediatisation, crisis of public communication, the impact of social media, the transformation of journalism etc).

Teacher

Mari-Liis Jakobson

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