Readings

• Robert Cialdini. 2009. Influence: Science and Practice. Boston: Pearson (Chapter 6, ‘Authority’)
• Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Meyers. 2023. A.I.’s use in elections sets of scramble for guardrails. June 25, New York Times (let’s see how far we’ve progressed …..).
• Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum. 2019. A Lot of People are Saying. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 6, ‘Who owns reality?’ 

Lecture material

• • Power and media
  • ‘Legitimate’ authority–a brief sociological review