Journalism ethics 2700-L-DM-Z3ETDZ-DZI
The aim of the course is theoretical analysis and practical study of the universally recognized principles and ethical standards. Students will receive knowledge that will allow them to consciously act in professional practice following ethical standards, workshops help them make difficult decisions and solving moral dilemmas. Classes should shape the kind of ethical sensitivity, which will be translated into a conscious responsibility for preparing and editing press materials. It will also allow to justify the choices that students will make at work, and which will be associated with the moral difficulties. The aim of the class is to internalize the basic ethical values so that the student was able to apply them in their work and that these values would constitute an internal imperative to self-control connected with published content.
Discussed topics in class include:
1. Introduction to codes of ethics.
2. Values in the media world.
3. Independence of journalists versus political and religious involvement.
4. Limits of disclosure: professional ethics of an investigative journalist and a reporter-documentarian.
5. Journalistic accountability and responsibility.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE:
After completing the course student knows the basic concepts and terms defining the system of values and journalists obligations that are contained in the journalistic ethics codes. Graduate knows that moral responsibility is the most personal and inalienable part of human freedom and the most precious from human rights. It cannot be taken from other man, cannot be shared and passed on others,
SKILLS:
Graduate has the skills to distinguish and use standards and rules existing in the contemporary media ethics codes. The graduate is able to solve the crisis in moral dilemmas, it also has a greater awareness of the consequences of words and deeds.
OTHER COMPETENCES:
Graduate has a social orientation related with the universal, generally accepted moral standards, is aware of the principles of social coexistence and is aware of their autonomy and identity.
Assessment criteria
Lecture:
Assessment methods:
- description,
- explanation,
- discussion,
- elements of lecture.
Assessment criteria:
- a prerequisite for the participation in the assessment is the successful pass of classes,
- the assessment will be held in the written form,
- the student is expected to have both theoretical knowledge and the ability to apply it in practice,
- A minimum score of 60% is required to achieve a pass mark,
- positive grades cannot be improved.
Class:
Assessment methods:
- description,
- discussion,
- excercises.
Assessment criteria:
- attendance (to pass students should attend classes at least 5 times; the lecturers do not provide the possibility to make up classes in which the student was not present, excused absences from classes are included in two admissible absences),
- active participation in the classes (discussion based on the course literature indicated in the syllabus, knowledge of the practical dimension of ethical standards),
- final assignment (ethical analysis of the a journalistic material - case study),
- written test based on material discussed in class (pass mark – at least 50% of the total possible cumulative score).
Pass mark from the class will be granted to students who have fulfilled all of the above criteria.
Bibliography
• I. Dobosz, Prawo i etyka w zawodzie dziennikarza, Oficyna a Wolters Kluwer – business, Warszawa 2008.
• M. Drożdż, Etyka mediów – utopia czy powinność. Tarnów: Wydawnictwo Biblos 2017.
• S. Fengler, T. Eberwein, M. Karmasin (eds.), The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. Routledge 2022.
• B. Golka, B. Michalski, Etyka dziennikarska, a kwestie informacji masowej, COM SNP, Warszawa 1989.
• H. M. Kepplinger, Mechanizmy skandalizacji w mediach, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagielońskiego, Kraków 2008.
• T. Kononiuk, Etyczne dziennikarstwo: ewolucja deontyczna zawodu, Warszawa 2015.
• T. Kononiuk, Rzetelne dziennikarstwo. Aksjologia i deontologia, Warszawa 2018.
• M. Mijalski, „Teoria śni, praktyka uczy”. Etyka zawodowa dziennikarzy. Refleksje. Pismo Naukowe studentów I doktorantów WNPiD UAM, 2020, (19-20), 9–19. https://doi.org/10.14746/r.2019.1.2.
• E. Ossowska, Normy moralne. Próba systematyzacji, PWN, Warszawa 1997.
• J. Pleszczyński, Etyka dziennikarska, Delfin, Warszawa 2007.
• W. Rivers, C. Mathews, Etyka środków przekazu, WAiF, Warszawa 1995.
• M. Zaremba, M. Łoszewska-Ołowska, K. Drozdanowicz, Prawo prasowe. Komentarz, Warszawa 2018.
Kodeksy etyczne:
• Deklaracja mediów masowych - w sprawie podstawowych zasad dotyczących udziału organów informacji w umacnianiu pokoju i zrozumienia międzynarodowego, w popieraniu praw człowieka i w walce przeciwko rasizmowi i podżeganiu do wojny (proklamowana przez Konferencję Generalną UNESCO na 20. sesji w Paryżu, 28 listopada 1978 r.)
• Deklaracja Paryska zawierająca Międzynarodowe Zasady Etyki Zawodowej w Dziennikarstwie (przygotowana pod auspicjami UNESCO w ramach spotkań międzynarodowych i regionalnych organizacji dziennikarzy w latach 1978-1983, wydana podczas IV Spotkania Konsultacyjnego, reprezentującego 400 000 dziennikarzy, w Paryżu 20 listopada 1983 r.)
• IFJ Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists (Deklaracja Zasad Międzynarodowej Federacji Dziennikarzy)
• Karta Etyczna Mediów
• Kodeks Etyki Dziennikarskiej Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy Polskich
• Kodeks Dobrych Praktyk Wydawców Prasy
• Dziennikarski Kodeks Obyczajowy Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
• Deklaracja ideowa Katolickiego Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy
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