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Ethics of Media - KFIL062
Title: Ethics of Media
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 12 [weeks]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil. (19.12.2022)
In the current era of increasing influence of the media on political, social and economic life, media ethics is
becoming a necessity not only for professionals and specialists, but in fact for everyone. The lectures will focus on
two sets of issues: the ethical significance of the media as a source of information and the media as a factor of
cultural and moral change. In the margin, we will also look at specific tools of media ethics and the new ethics of
the audience.


Program
1) The conflict between the right to information and the protection of private sphere
2) The problem of truth and truthful information
3) The right to free expression, the problem of fake news censorship
4) The pedagogical influence of the media
5) The problem of protecting traditions, cultures and minorities
6) Trivialisation and commercialisation of everyday life
7) Market pressure and economization
8) The social problem of isolation and loneliness
9) Tools of media ethics
10) Ethics of the audience
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil. (19.12.2022)

Ess, Ch., Digital Media Ethics, Cambridge 2014.

Keeble, R., Ethics for Journalists, London - New York 2009.

Raom, S. - Wasserman, H., Media Ethics and Justice in the Age of Globalization, Houndmills 2015.

Fortner, R. S. - Fackler, P. M. (vyd.), The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, Malden (MA) 2011

Ward, S. J. A., Ethics and the Media. An Introduction, Cambridge 2011.

 
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