Communication, Ethics and Democracy
1
2023-2024
02048461
Journalism
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
10.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
The teaching method seeks to combine three elements: lectures on theoretical contents of the curricular unit, which are the responsibility of the teacher (with particular emphasis on points I, II and part of III of the program; provision of mandatory reading texts for the realization of individual files) of student work; collective discussion of contemporary issues of journalism and communication.
Learning Outcomes
The course program aims to create the conditions so that in the end, the student can:
1. Identify the origins and significant currents of contemporary ethical thought and their political and communicational implications;
2. Know current perspectives of the ethics of communication on contemporary issues of the media, information, communication, and democracy;
3. Master critical concepts of information ethics, journalism, and communication;
4. To learn analysis methodologies and conceptual instruments or to develop independent thinking about dilemmatic situations in public communication.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
I. Ethical Inherits of Philosophical Ethics
. Virtue ethics
. Dentistry ethics
. Contractualism
. Consequentialist ethics
. Political perspectives: responsibility and conviction
II. Contemporary perspectives on ethics and communication
. Neo-Aristotelism
. Communication Ethics
. Ethics of responsibility
. Perspectives on the public space
III. Freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of communication
. Freedoms of expression
. French Revolution and America Revolution
. Positive Freedom and Negative Freedom
. Perspectives on market-oriented freedom of expression and democracy
IV. Key concepts and concepts deviating from the ethics of journalism and communication
. Sensationalism
. Infotainment
. Objectivity
. Responsibility
. Public care
. Professionalism
. Normative perspectives on the ethics of communication and journalism.
Head Lecturer(s)
José Carlos Costa dos Santos Camponez
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Synthesis work: 10.0%
Discussion : 10.0%
Frequency: 40.0%
Research work: 40.0%
Bibliography
Ash, T. G. (2017). Liberdade de Expressão – Dez Princípios para um mundo interligado. Lisboa: Temas & Debates.
Edström, M. , Kenyon, A. T., & Svensson, E.-M. (Eds.) (2016). Blurring the Lines – Market-driven and democracy-driven: Freedom of Expression. Göteborg: Nordicom.
Gómez, C. (Ed.) (2003). Doce Textos Fundamentales de la Ética del Siglo XX. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Johannesen, R., Valde, K., & Whedbee K. E. (2008). Ethics in Human Communication (Sixth Edition). Long Grove-Illinois: Waveland Press, INC.
Merrill, J. C. (1997). Journalism Ethics - Philosophical foundations for news media. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Santos, J. M. (2012). Introdução à Ética. Lisboa: Documenta.
Silverstone, R. (2010) La moral de los medios de comunicación – sobre el macimento de la polis de los medios. Madrid: Amorrortu.
Ward, S., & Wasserman, H. (Eds.) (2010). Media Ethics Beyond Borders: a global perspective. New York: Routledge.