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COMM 801: TGR Project

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit

COMM 802: TGR Dissertation

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit

COMM 102S: Political Communication and Social Media

This course will explore how social media and mobile computing platforms affect the modern political landscape. Topics: how these technologies change the mix of news, information and campaign materials we get; structure our relationships with candidates and representatives; augment modern politicians' fundraising and campaign efforts; and make possible new forms of political organization and collective action. Possible case studies: the Obama campaign's successful use of social/mobile technology to campaign in 2008 and 2012; how constituents use social media to communicate with their representatives; and the role of social-mobile technologies in modern revolutionary movements.

COMM 107S: Engendering Compassion with Interactive Digital Media

This course will draw on research regarding behavioral, cognitive, and physiological indicators and predictors of compassion, as well as computer-mediated communication, intimate and ubiquitous computing, social networking, and multitasking to better understand how interactive digital media affects compassionate behaviors, including altruism and helping. For their final project, students will either (1) propose an experiment for future research investigating compassion in HCI, or (2) propose a design change for an extant technology to engender compassionate responses.

COMM 134: Public Participation and Public Policy (COMM 234)

Examines the role of public participation in public policy making. Around the world, policymakers seek to engage their publics. But, even though public participation is important, it is also problematic. Public meetings can become dysfunctional and turn into media spectacles instead of actually gathering the opinions of the public. The question becomes, when and how should the public be consulted in order to effectively impact public policies? There are consequences of engaging the public, and this seminar explores the methods used to engage publics around the world.

COMM 147: Modern History and Future of Journalism (COMM 247)

(Graduate students register for COMM 247.) The birth and evolution of local and national television news. The modern history of newspapers. Can they survive in the era of online journalism?

COMM 161: Research Seminar on Political Campaigns

This seminar will provide students with the opportunity to design and implement a research project concerning the effects of campaigns on public opinion/voting preference. The first half of the course will expose students to principles of research design (including field experiments, surveys and content analysis) and major repositories of election and campaign data including the American National Election Studies, the Wisconsin Advertising Database, and other compilations of national and statewide polls. The second half of the course will cover recent scholarship into the effects of exposure to political campaigns on vote choice, turnout, polarization, and related outcomes. Prerequisite: COMM162/ Polisci 120b

COMM 163: Running Time: Running and Winning Elections (POLISCI 229R)

This course aims to teach you the nuts-n-bolts of political campaigning. How do campaign consultants organize a campaign, draft a strategy, come up with a theme, target voters, raise money, write and produce ads and get voters to the ballot? Drawing upon academic writings in the fields of political science and communication, articles by campaign consultants, TV ads, and documentaries, you will learn all about how elections are won and lost. You will master, and yet learn to be critical of, current electoral politics with their emphasis on money, polls, and sound bites. Finally, you will harness this new knowledge to do some good, by promoting a worthy cause.

COMM 167: Advanced Seminar in Virtual Reality Research

Restricted to students with previous research experience in virtual reality. Experimental methods and other issues.

COMM 177I: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Investigative Reporting (COMM 277I)

Graduate students register for COMM 277I.) Under the supervision of editors from the Center for Investigative Reporting, students will work on a group investigative project with the end-goal of publication and distribution through CIR's California Watch project. The class will emphasize the history and role of investigative reporting as well as skills and techniques needed to do it. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: instructor consent. Go to http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/grimes for application instructions.
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