Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Catharine Lumby
Contact via catharine.lumby@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MFJ or MA in Media Law and Culture
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit will give students an advanced understanding of key legal and ethical issues that are relevant to media practice and journalism in the contemporary media landscape. It will offer students without a law background a practical understanding of the legal principles that underpin key emergent areas of online and social media regulation with a focus on how the law is evolving to deal with new technologies and platforms. Students will also gain a sophisticated appreciation of the ethical framework that underpin regulation, co-regulation and self-regulation and their rationale. The unit will engage students in complex critical reflection about the contemporary media, law and ethics.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Presentation | 20% | Ongoing |
Seminar paper | 30% | Ongoing |
Final essay | 50% | 16/6/2014 |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%
You will be asked to present a 15 minute paper on one of the readings at a seminar. Detailed instructions will be posted to iLearn.
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 30%
Following your seminar presentation you will prepare a 1,500 word paper drawing on your presentation and using other scholarly and journalistic resources. Detailed instructions will be posted on iLearn.
Due: 16/6/2014
Weighting: 50%
This essay will allow you draw on and unpack key critical ideas you have encountered in this unit. Detailed instructions will be posted on iLearn and discussed at length in our seminars.
There is a course reader for sale at the university Coop bookstore. You need to check iLearn for additional resources on a weekly basis.
Week One (March 3)
Introduction to unit, assessment and approach to learning
Week Two (March 10)
Introduction to Legal and Ethical Frameworks
Week Three (March 17)
Contempt of court laws and social media
Week Four (March 24)
Copyright laws and social media
Week Five (March 31)
Privacy laws, principles and social media
Week Six (April 7)
Defamation, freedom of speech and social media
Week Seven (April 28)
Media content regulation and social media
Week Eight (May 5)
Online vitriol, hate speech and cyberbullying in social media
Week Nine (May 12)
Celebrities, self and product promotion and social media
Week Ten (May 19)
Pornography, offensive content and social media
Week Eleven (May 26)
Wikileaks, national security and social media
Week Twelve (June 2)
Review of course and discussion
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