- Code
- COM 412
- Name
- Media and Ethics
- Semester
- 2
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
This course will address the ethical aspects of media. The course will provide an overview of the school, the ideas of ethical views as analytical instruments for judging the various issues, which are derived from the ways in which different media reflect events of the day. In the continuation students will be acquainted with the ethical judgment models, with problems of "low language", the importance of clarity and accuracy, with views associated with the truth and objectivity, privacy or phenomena expressed in terms of new media.
- Objectives
-
In this course students will be trained in the development and consolidation of ethical judgment of phenomena that appear often in the work of media and especially the work of new media. They will be able to identify the various case studies and justify their answers.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Basic notions of ethics
- 2
- Ethical school of old Greece.Virtue to me and to my companionship according to Plato
- 3
- From utilitarians to the pessimism of Shopenhauer / Nietzsche, Spenser, Darwin, Sartre, Charles Taylor: Ethics of Authenticity
- 4
- Model of ethical judgment - (Clifford Christian)
- 5
- Relations with media and actual malice
- 6
- Media and ordinary people
- 7
- Low language, consequences and legal treatment
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Responsibility to audiences - the public interest
- 10
- The truth, clarity, accuracy. The BBC's ethical code
- 11
- Private life and media interventions
- 12
- New media and consequences of multiple actors (as we understand the truth)
- 13
- Privacy, violence and pornography - concerns in the era of new media
- 14
- To save communication (D.Wolton)
- 15
- Repetition
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will acquire knowledge about the media ethics.
- 2
- Students will study the norms, guidelines governing the media industry.
- 3
- Students will be able to discuss the construction of an ethical and professional media industry.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 50% 50%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 6 84
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 8 8
- Final exam
- 1 10 10
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 150
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.00
- ECTS
- 6.00