Ethics and Deontology of Journalism and Communication

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies articulate lectures, texts thematic presentations by students and guided discussions by the teacher.

Apart from the generic literature, students will have a set of texts that will be available for each session, from which it will aimed to make a link between the content exposed by the teacher (first part of each session), actual cases presented by students and discussion raised by the debate (second part of each session). Thus, it seeks to articulate the study of content deemed framers with different rules related to communication and journalism.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the origins and major currents of contemporary ethical thought.

2. Develop skills for ethical and deontological reasoning about media information and communication.

3. Promote critical reasoning about the information and communication society within a framework of thought articulated with issues of law, ethics and morals.

4. Understand the role of the professions in contemporary societies and forms of self-regulation and social responsibility.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I - Legacies of Western ethical thinking.

II - Freedom of Expression

III – Regulation, self-regulation and Professional ethics.

IV - Business Ethics.

VI - Cross-cutting themes of journalism and communication.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Carlos Costa dos Santos Camponez

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Research work: 75.0%

Bibliography

CAMPONEZ, Carlos (2011).Deontologia do Jornalismo. Coimbra: Almedina

FIDALGO, Joaquim (2010).O Lugar da Ética e da Auto-Regulação na Identidade Profissional dos Jornalistas. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

FISS, Owen M. (1999).La Ironia de la Libertad de Expresión. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, 1999

GÓMEZ, Carlos (Ed.),Doce Textos Fundamentales de la Ética del Siglo XX, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2003

JOHANNESEN, Richard L., VALDE, Kathleen S., WHEDBEE, Karen E.(2008). Ethics in Human Communication, Long Grove-Illinois. Waveland Press: INC

KEEBLE, Richard (Ed.)(2005). Communication Ethics Today. Leicester:Troubador Publishing

LAMBETH, Edmund (1992).Committed Journalism – An ethic for the profession. Blomington, Idianapolis, Indiana: University Press

MERRILL, John C.(1997). Journalism Ethics - Philosophical foundations for news media. Boston , New York: Bedford/St. Martin's

VINCENT, Gilbert (org.)(2002). Responsabilités Professionnelles et Déontologiques. Paris: L’Harmattan