Comm 310: Mass Media Ethics

Tue-Thu Class Syllabus

Wed Class Syllabus

Wed Class REVISED Readings
and
Activities

Homework Grading
Comments

Tue-Thu Class Grades

Wed Class Grades

Ethics Resources

Case Study Assignments
Tue-Thu Class
Wednesday Class

Sample Commentaries

Student Guide
to Avoiding Plagiarism

 

Announcements

Grades were updated 15 Nov.
Please make sure that you have been given proper credit for you work.
Also make sure that you have been assigned three case studies.

Case study assignments: Please make sure you have been assigned three case studies and notify me if you don't have three assignments.

Media deception discussion: There are no reading materials with this topic. We will discuss it in class only.

Tue-Thu commentary assignments were updated 17 Sept

Dan Rather case study

Case study assignment: Read all the case studies. Those who are assigned to write a commentary that weekshould select one case study and write a one- to two-page essay evaluating the actions of the people involved.

In writing your tests and commentaries,
frame your arguments in terms of the philosophies and other tools we have discussed.

Don’t write that you believe the action was right or wrong.

State something like , “if Smith had applied communitarianism, he would have understand his action was incorrect.”

or, “Smith’s apparently applied Mill’s Principle of Utility to decide the best course of action.”

Write in the third person rather than the first or second person. Do not use I, we, our, you, your etc.

Use correct grammar.
Incorrect: By supporting the cause through their project, GAP is making a statement but at the expense of the victims.

GAP is one entity, Use singular pronouns to refer it.
Correct: By supporting the cause through its project, GAP is making a statement but at the expense of the victims.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures

Public relations discussion

New media discussion

Advertising discussion

Media and government discussion

Media economics discussion

Media deception discussion

Photo and videojournalism discussion

Privacy discussion

Loyalties and conflicts of interest discussion

Information ethics discussion

Philosophies discussion