MEDIA ETHICS & LAW (6 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:Analyse interactions between freedom of expression and regulations to curb it; explain histories of policies in controlling media and analyse the impact of political and economic powers to the policies, Analyse political economy logics behind policies in mass media.Describe the principles of organization; describe the basic concept of organization communication; explain the methods of creating an effective communication in an organization.   Explain the general connections between words “communication” and “community”. Evaluate communication functions in space and time metaphors. Construct transmission and ritual aspects of each communication situations.

Topics:

The class provides students with understanding and critical attitude towards the relation between media, law, policies, and the source of needs to regulate media. Different screenings and class discussions equip students with understanding of the needs to regulate media systems, contents, even audience and ways of consuming media.

The course introduces the student to ways of communicating in organizational context. Concept, process, and theories of Communication in Organization are discussed and demonstrated in the class in order to illustrate the contemporary situation. The class explores interconnectivities of media, communication, culture and society, discussions of meanings in communications that shape identities of members of societies. Students are asked to understand communication beyond its function as a means of control and beyond its effects to audience, to embrace the more ritualistic functions of communication for members of the society.

Pre-requisite:  None