您将分析并反思社交媒体，通信行业和24/7新闻周期的增长所驱动的政治和政策变化。近年来，机构​​政治变得更加媒介化，而政治领导人现在则是由媒体主导并以口头表达。政治竞选活动不仅限于选举前时期，公共关系战略家和政治顾问已越来越成为政治的中心。这些联系也正在影响国家和国际政策。互联网的普及和社交媒体的发展也改变了公民及其政治代表之间的关系，并为公民的政治审议，活动家，抗议者和新的社会运动的组织提供了新的平台。 （通常在跨国级别）。这门新课程旨在严格审查这些问题和许多其他问题。
You will analyse and reflect upon changes to both politics and policy driven by the growth of social media, the communications industry and the 24/7 news cycle. In recent years, institutional politics have become more mediatised, and political leaders are now media-driven and speak in soundbites. Political campaigning is no longer limited to pre-electoral periods and public relations strategists and political consultants have become more and more central to politics. These links are affecting policy too, both at the national and the international levels. The spread of the internet and the development of social media has also brought changes to the relations between citizens and their political representatives, and constitute a new platform for citizens political deliberation, and for the organisation of activists, protesters, and new social movements (often at a transnational level). This new course aims to critically examine these and many other issues.