Communication Science: Political Communication

The Political Communication track addresses questions at the core of our democratic societies. How do citizens learn about politics in the era of disinformation and algorithm-driven social media? How can journalism survive and thrive? And how can political actors best reach the public? We focus on the interactions (and tensions) between politicians, journalists, audiences and technologies in the modern digital media era.

The curriculum of the Master’s in Political Communication comprises one year of full-time study. You will study how interactions between (non-)governmental actors, politicians, journalists, and citizens take shape, and with what effects. You will learn how (social) media influences political engagement, powerful journalists are in setting the (political) agenda, and take a comparative look at how this differs in different countries.