Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Journalism and Communications
University of Chile
- City: Santiago,
- Municipality: Ñuñoa,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
1. To develop in the student theoretical and methodological research skills in the field of political communication.
2. To develop in the student the ability to critically evaluate the phenomena specific to this field, both at the academic and professional levels.
Upon completion of the Program, students will be able to: identify problems affecting the field of political communication studies; apply relevant concepts and theories to understand the phenomena affecting the field of analysis; develop tools to analyze political communication processes in the various contexts in which it occurs; and develop proposals that respond to the main challenges of this disciplinary field.
Applicant Profile
Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree or professional title whose level, content, and duration of study are equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from the University of Chile, as determined by the Program's Academic Committee. Applicants must possess specific skills and training that enable them to conduct their own research within the framework of the Program.
Graduate profile
Graduates of the Master's in Political Communication are professionals who critically visualize the conflicts, relationships, and processes that are framed within the work of the area, which they can address in an academic and investigative manner, thus highlighting the central role of the problems of political communication to understand the current world
Lines of investigation
The research carried out within the framework of the Master's Program in Political Communication can be grouped into four main categories of problems related to:
1. Debates and traditions about political communication (political philosophy)
This line of inquiry seeks to examine the concept of the political from a historical perspective and in relation to various objects. The key questions that guide this line of inquiry are: What is the political? What ultimately defines it? What are the relationships between language and the political? How is it expressed in contemporary times? And what changes have occurred in politics? Because the questions are broad, the traditions are multiple, ranging from classical philosophical thought to modern thought and contemporary perspectives.
2. Relationship between communication and subjectivity (political psychology)
This line of inquiry seeks to examine the political in its psychosocial dimensions. The key questions that guide this line of inquiry are: How does the political appear in the realm of subjects? How is the political linked to the processes of identity construction? In what ways is the political reproduced in the realm of everyday life?
3. Social mediatization, communication technologies and politics (mediatization - political sociology)
This line of inquiry seeks to examine the current modernization processes underway in Latin America, within the framework of globalization, which are causing significant and profound sociocultural changes in what has been termed the general mediatization of society. The key questions guiding this line of inquiry are: What are the links between media discourse and politics? What are the relationships between politics and the production of socially relevant meanings? How do media practices influence the construction of narratives about politics?
4. Politics, communication and visuality (visual studies - application).
This line of inquiry seeks to examine the relationship between image and politics, which would be the framework within which contemporary research on the image can be situated. The key questions that articulate this line of inquiry are: What are the modes of relationship between images, in their various media, and politics? What are the functions of images in conveying political meanings? What are the relationships between image and political power? What is the use and meaning of images in the construction of our social relationships?
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