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Media Ethics
Postgraduate | GRF-COM260 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
Scrutinise national and international examples of media codes of ethics and analyse their effectiveness. Sift through a history of ethics. Take media regulation into account.Pick apart the responsibilities of people who work in the media.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Media Ethics
About this subject
The generic outcomes are a broad understanding of issues in media theory and the place of new media theory, providing you with the skills and knowledge which are the basis of current communication practices.
Cognitive outcomes include developing the ability to map the creation of a project from concept to finished product delivered to an audience in a planned setting. Affective outcomes (eg attitudes, values, and ethics) are an inherent result of working collaboratively towards a professional outcome. Within the production environment, skills-based outcomes (eg: problem solving etc) are key to the daily challenges involved in creating an audience-based product with technologically-based gathering of content. The subjects specific aims and outcomes are to provide a professional qualification for those who wish to work in the creative and communication industries.
- An introduction and overview
- The nature and history of ethics
- Morality, ethics and the professional
- Journalism and ethics
- Beyond the code: some issues in Journalism training
- Comparative media ethics
- Media regulation
- Media regulation and ICTs
- Copyright
- Case studies in 21st Century media ethics
- Review
- Review
- Review
This subject begins with a review of various national and international media codes of ethics and conduct. We then question the effectiveness of these codes in teaching the moral reasoning required in a fast-paced industry that rapidly reformulates itself to avoid significant ethical issues. In particular, this subject will review contributions from traditional ethics to appreciate the importance of the ethical formation of the individual. How then should the ethical individual media worker conduct themselves? Are their responsibilities limited to insisting that organisations and corporations adhere to their own ethical precepts? Or do they also have a responsibility to themselves to ensure that they develop their own personal code to provide the persistence and strength to maintain their own voice in often difficult and traumatic events?
- Online Discussion 1 (20%)
- Online Discussion 2 (30%)
- Essay (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
one of
- GRF-COM110-Introducing Communication Studies
GRF-COMM110 (Not currently available)
and one of
- GRF-COM120-Visual Culture
GRF-COMM120 (Not currently available)
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
GRF-COM150 (Not currently available)
GRF-COMM150 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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