Unit 1 News
1. What Is NEWS?
2. News Sources
3. Why Do We Need News?
4. Etymology
5. History
6. Forums of News
7. Online Journalism
8. Newsworthiness
9. New Ecology of News
Unit 2 Relations Between Law and Media
1. What Is Law?
2. Why Do We Need Laws?
3. What Is Media?
4. Communications & Media Law
5. Who Regulates Communications?
Unit 3 Freedom of Speech and Expression
1. Importance of Freedom of Speech and Expression
2. The Racial Discrimination Act Amendments
3. Relative Freedom of Speech
4. Conclusions
Unit 4 Freedom of Information
1. Freedom of Information (or Information Freedom)
2. The Information Society and Freedom of Expression
3. Hacktivismo
4. Global Network Initiative
5. Internet Censorship
Unit 5 Defamation
1. Definition
2. Types of Torts: Slander and Libel
3. Criminal Defamation
4. Defenses
5. Defamation and Freedom of Speech
Unit 6 Contempt of Court and Trial by Media
1. Contempt of Court
2. Trial by Media
Unit 7 Privacy
1. Privacy
2. Types of Privacy
3. The Right to Privacy
4. Privacy Protection
Unit 8 Confidentiality
1. Confidentiality
2. Legal Confidentiality
3. History of the English Law of Confidentiality
4. Medical Confidentiality
5. Clinical Psychology
Unit 9 Journalism Sourcing
1. Overview
2. Using Confidential Information
3. Anonymous Sources
4. Not on Tape
5. Attribution
6. Ethics
7. "Speaking Terms"
8. Neologisms
Unit 10 Censorship
1. Censorship
2. Rationale
3. Political Censorship
4. Censorship of State Secrets and Prevention of Attention
5. Censorship of Educational Sources
6. Censorship in Music and Popular Culture
7. Copy, Picture, and Writer Approval
8. Censorship of Maps
9. Meta Censorship
10. Creative Censorship
11. Censorship Implementation
12. Internet Censorship
Unit 11 Advertising
1. Public Service Advertising
2. Types of Advertising
3. Media and Advertising Approaches
4. Criticism of Advertising
5. Regulation
6. Future
Unit 12 Copyright
1. Justification
2. Exclusive Rights Granted by Copyright
3. Works Subject to Copyright
4. International Copyright Law
5. Copyright by Country
6. Obtaining Copyright
7. Copyright Enforcement
8. Limits and Exceptions to Copyright
9. Copyright as Property Right
Vocabulary
References