ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Teaching political communication amid changes andchallenges 2Kevin Coe and Diana ZulliPART II PERSPECTIVES AND POSITIONALITIES:NAVIGATING POLITICS IN THE CLASSROOM2 Challenges of teaching "political" topics in politicalcommunication 10Porismita Borah and Kyle Lorenzano3 Teaching media bias in polarized political environments 21Michael W. Wagner4 Teaching deliberative democracy in theory and practice 33Emily Sydnor5 James Baldwin, Black political communication, and the ageof Trump 45Theon E. Hill6 How to talk about politics in a polarized climate: Cultivatingcivil discourse in political communication pedagogy 55Sumana Chattopadhyay7 Naming silence and making space: Reflections on navigatingclassroom tension 68Logan Rae Gomez and Leandra H. Hernández8 Nevertheless, gender persists: Integrating gender into politicalcommunication courses 78Lindsey Meeks and Ant Woodall9 Polarized views: Political communication from Washington toLatin America 91Jorge M. Restrepo Garcia10 Strategies for reducing partisan tensions in practicalassignments 104Ashley Muddiman, Brandon Boyce, and Mackenzie Marquess11 Teaching race in high school classrooms 116Taryn Coe and Harpreet Parhar12 The need for "public listening" courses: A student andinstructor dialogue 127A. Jackson Harris and Madison DuboisePART III APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS: POLITICALCOMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE13 "Am I in an echo chamber?": Teaching politicalcommunication through applied research and collaborativeinquiry 137Dominik A. Stecula14 Creativity with strategy: Using project-based learning andcampaign ads when teaching political communication 147Tim J. Groeling and Georgia Kernell15 Understanding "outsider" campaign communication: Lessonsfrom third parties 157Ryan Neville-Shepard16 Political memes as pedagogy for globally situated politicalcommunication 166Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey17 Educating college citizens on the promise and peril of publicopinion polls: Facilitating campus-wide surveys of students 176Lindsay H.
Hoffman18 Teaching political rhetoric: Political communication from ahumanistic lens 185Orville Tatcho19 Empowering digital citizenship: Open pedagogy as a tool forcountering misinformation 194Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch20 Visualize political communication: Forum prompts to engagethe eyes 204Alena Amato Ruggerio21 The mediatization experience: An experiential learningsimulation on mediatization of politics 215Stefan Geiß and Melanie Magin22 From classroom to podium: Integrating public speaking intopolitical communication pedagogy 225Samuel Mateus23 Into the woods: Using digital platforms to learn aboutpolitical communication 235Curd Benjamin Knüpfer24 Political communication and the ecologies of media: Theory,pedagogy, and praxis 245Erik Gustafson25 Teaching political communication using the C-SPAN videolibrary: An "unfiltered" resource 254Diana Deyoe, Diana Zulli, Jennifer Hall, and Andrea Langrish26 Higher education centers and institutes as hubs for democraticlearning, programming, and research: The case of the Centerfor Sustainable Democracy 264Joshua M. Scacco, Aya Diab, Zakaria Khan, and Andrew Anderson.