APG5640 Media, law and ethics

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   identify and analyse the legal rights and responsibilities, ethical dimensions, and the historical and political context of journalistic practice;

2. 2

   evaluate major scholarly approaches to and debates about researching media organisations, practice and consumption in a social context;

3. 3

   critically analyse and reflexively deploy the principles of 'the public right to know', 'freedom of expression' and 'access to information' in an international and cross-cultural context;

4. 4

   communicate major scholarly debates in media and journalism studies in a range of formats and for a variety of audiences.