Undergraduate - UnitAMU3451 - Freedom and control in the media

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia
Offered	Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Callum Gilmour

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to key issues and debates about media regulation, freedom and control. Topics addressed include issues of media ownership, convergence, censorship and classification, globalisation and resistance, as well as democracy and the public sphere. Students will explore examples of policy frameworks that respond to these issues, as well as their implications and effects. The unit examines these policies in different sociocultural contexts, drawing upon material and case studies from the USA, Southeast Asia, and other relevant areas.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Identify the key rhetoric's informing media regulation and the ways in which they function within and through particular policy debates;
Demonstrate knowledge of the historical development and contemporary application of regulatory procedures;
Understand the policy issues of ownership, globalisation, convergence, censorship and resistance;
Analyse media industries and their policy frameworks;
Conduct independent research.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.