Comm 310: Mass Media Ethics

Syllabus

Case Study Assignments
It is your responsibility to make sure that you have three assignments

Grades

Ethics Resources

Sample Commentaries

Student Guide
to Avoiding Plagiarism

Announcements

Revised semester grades were posted 20 Dec. Please make sure you have been given proper credit for your work.

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

Arts and Entertainment discussion

Deception discussion and case studies

New media (Chap 9) discussion

Media economics (Chap 7) discussion

Media and democray (Chap 6) discussion

Photojournalism (Chap 8) discussion

Strategic communications (Chap 3) discussion

Privacy (Chap 5) discussion

Conflicts of interest (Chap 4) discussion

Information ethics (Chap 2) discussion

Ethical decision making discussion

Tips for writing well discussion

Rene Decartes discussion