London,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Birkbeck's MSc in Political Communication offers comprehensive training in analyzing key aspects of political communication, covering topics like campaign impacts, media influence, misinformation, global media frameworks, and civic tech tools.
This field plays a pivotal role in electoral processes and policy formation, focusing on information exchange between:
elected officials
government bodies
news organizations
citizens.
The program explores how digital innovations and user-generated content have revolutionized political communication studies. You'll examine how established media and political systems can evolve within today's complex information landscape, marked by both factual content and widespread misinformation.