Topic 1: Social Media and Politics. Explore how ordinary citizens, politicians, and activists engage with politics on social media platforms. Trace the effects such political engagement has on both the political landscape and the platforms themselves. Analyze how communication theories around self presentation, imagined audience, affordances, and identity shape political communication on social media. Communication Studies 367P (Topic 1) and 367P (Topic: Social Media and Politics) may not both be counted.

Topic 2: Social Media Analysis. Analyze content on social media platforms using computational methods. Use the Python programming language to understand how individuals, companies, political campaigns, and social movements communicate using social media to advance their goals. Combine data collection, analysis, and visualization to develop insights using social media data.

Topic 3: Dark Side of Political Rhetoric. Survey the ways in which the figure of the devil has been invoked in cultural politics, beginning with Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and concluding with the influence of QAnon conspiracy theory in present-day electoral politics.