Prerequisites

No prior requirements.

Course Description

The goals of the media are divided between news, supervision, education, entertainment, advertising and others, but each goal depends mainly on information and methods of obtaining it, preparing it, storing it, displaying it, publishing and receiving it through visual, print and audio media, a process behind which interests and motives affect the audience and shape its values and personality in the long run.
While the controversy continues over what morals are, is it voluntary or mandatory, is it individual or collective, and the ways to adhere to it, traditional and digital media penetrate people’s lives, and ethical problems are increasing in the media and other professions as one of the features of the progress we are living in, Hence the importance of focusing on the ethics of media work.

Course Objective

- Knowing the importance of ethics in the media.
- Familiarity with media ethics.
- Knowing the consequences of the media lack of commitment to ethics.

Course Outline

- The difference between ethics, laws and standards.
- Ethics in the media is the responsibility of whom?
- Challenges facing ethics in media work.
- Damage to societies due to non-compliance with media ethics.
- Applications to media ethics.
- Digital media and professional ethics.

Course Benefits

- A participation certificate from Al Jazeera Media Institute.