Digital Media in Politics and Society

Lecture Script

Author

Andreas Jungherr

Published

January 21, 2024

Welcome and housekeeping

Welcome to the lecture notes to Digital Media in Politics and Society. The lecture series is developed and written by Andreas Jungherr, Professor for Political Science, especially Digital Transformation at the University of Bamberg, Germany. The lectures are designed for the Master Degree programme in political science at the University of Bamberg and its focus areas Computational Social Science and Governance of Innovative and Complex Technological Systems.

This course follows the flipped-classroom approach. In class, we will discuss the topic of the respective session and any open questions you might have. In order to profit from these sessions, it is mandatory that you read the notes to the respective session and listen to the lectures. Both will be made available approximately one week before the respective topic is discussed in class. In the final session of the course, there will be an exam testing you on what you have taken away from the class. In preparation for the exam, make sure to study the review questions made available to you on this site.

You can find the script to this lecture on this website.

For ease of use, there also is a pdf version of the script available here. Please note that the pdf will be updated during the course of the semester.

There is a podcast accompanying the lecture series which is available on your podcast platform of choice or on YouTube.

Topics: Winter 2023/4

Topic Date Script Recordings
Introduction and Housekeeping October 16
Computational Social Science (CSS) October 23 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Group discussion October 30
Digital media in politics and society November 06 Script Recording
Group discussion November 13
Data November 20 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Algorithms November 27 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Group discussion December 04
Challenge December 11 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Public arena December 18 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Group discussion January 08
Artificial Intelligence (AI) January 15 Script Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Group discussion January 22
Wrap up January 29
Exam February 05

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