121-0345/01 – Journalistic ethics (NOE)
Gurantor department | Department of Economics Journalism | Credits | 3 |
Subject guarantor | doc. PhDr. PaedDr. Milan Sekanina, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. PhDr. PaedDr. Milan Sekanina, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
to judge aspects of media internal regulation
to give strengths and weaknesses of professional ethics application in practice
to evaluate ethical principles in practice
to compare media discourse of chosen countries
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
Compulsory literature:
Fink, C. (1995): Media Ethics. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Recommended literature:
Feintuck, M. (1999): Media Regulation, Public Interest and the Law.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
are not other requirements for students
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to the aspects of internal regulation (self regulation) of media as part of the normative framework of media systems of individual nation-states.
2. Theory of journalistic ethics (as part of applied and professional ethics)
3. Application of theoretical knowledge in practice.
4. Analyses of actual ethically questionable cases from the Czech media discourse and media discourses of the chosen countries (especially Great Britain, the United States of America or the Federal Republic of Germany.
5. Codification of ethical principles in the Czech media system.
6. Comparison of ethical codes of the chosen Czech media with media abroad.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction