Creative Industries and Ethics

Course aim

To provide students with a contextual understanding of ethical issues pertaining to rapidly growing media and communication industries; to foreground the growing industry recognition that applied ethics is a multi disciplinary field, encompassing a wide variety of disparate areas, investigation of which has an important role to play in public, academic and professional life; to prepare students to critically engage in and analyse ethical issues impacting on creative industries as they are transformed by digital media development, globalisation, and convergence; to understand ethical issues pertaining to policy development in creative industries.

Course content

Applied ethical theory, creative industry policy development, digital communications, censorship, privacy, intellectual property, security, the Internet, games industries, corporate communication, digital ethics, popular music, publishing, broadcasting, magazines, public relations, advertising, global journalism and photojournalism, fashion industry ethics, publishing industry ethics.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

9 units of the major in Communication, Media and Culture or COMM 2066 Corporate and International Public Relations.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, TAYLOR'S BUSINESS SCHOOL
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HELP COLLEGE OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Major Case Study, Minor Case study, Weekly Journal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.