Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2010

COM 407 A: Communication Technology and Politics (SSc)

COM 407 A: Communication Technology and Politics (SSc)

SLN 12105 (View UW registration info »)

Kirsten Foot (Communication)
Office: 102 Communications Bldg, Box 353740
Phone: 543-4837
Email: kfoot@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students

Cross-listed with POL S 451 A, SLN 18002.
Employs some core concepts of political communication and theories of democracy to examine the emerging role of information and communication technologies in candidate and issue campaigning; online voting; protest and advocacy movements; law-making and electronic governance in the United States and internationally.