Politics, Communication, and Society

The Politics, Communication, and Society Workshop ties together diverse strands of research on the political aspects and social roles of communicative practices. With faculty sponsors and student coordinators drawn from several disciplines in the social sciences, the workshop provides participants with an opportunity to approach the issues of communication from a variety of perspectives and with a variety of focal points. Our conversation over the last few years has been a wide-ranging exploration of topics like the social efficacy of political rhetoric and symbolism, the role of language in the construction of reality, the transformation of concepts through the media, and the relations between sociohistorical processes and systems of signification.