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

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