SYLLABUS : MEDIA LAWS AND ETHICS: Delhi University

SYLLABUS : MEDIA LAWS AND ETHICS

UNIT – I (15 hours)

UNIT I: Ethical framework and media practice

• Freedom of expression (Article 19(1) (a) and Article 19(1)2)

• Freedom of expression and defamation- Libel and slander, Issues of privacy and

surveillance in society

• Right to Information Idea of Fair Trial/Trial by Media

• Issues of Copyright

• Media ethics and cultural dependence

• Live reporting and ethics Legality and Ethicality of Sting Operations,

• Phone Tapping etc. Ethical issues in Social media ( IT Act 2000, Sec 66 A and the

verdict of the Supreme Court )

UNIT – II (15 hours)

UNIT II: Representation, Regulation and ethics

• Advertisement and Women

• Pornography related laws and case studies- Indecent representation of Women

(Prohibition) Act,1986 and rules 1987, Protection of Women against Sexual

Harassment Bill, 2007, Sec 67 of IT Act 2000 and 292 IPC etc

• Regulatory bodies, codes and ethical guidelines

• Self-regulation, media content- Debates on morality and accountability: taste,

culture and taboo, censorship and media debates

UNIT – III (15 hours)

UNIT III: Media and Social Responsibility

• Media reportage of marginalized sections- children, Dalits, tribals, gender, differently-abled, old-aged persons.

• Media coverage of violence and related laws - inflammatory writing (IPC 353), Sedition- incitement to violence, hate speech

Practical component (if any) - NIL Essential/recommended readings:

- Nanda, Vartika, Media Laws and Ethics, Kanishka Publishers 

- Thakurta, Paranjoy Guha, Media Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2009 2. Barrie mc Donald and Michel petheran Media Ethics,mansell, 1998.

- Austin Sarat Where Law Meets Popular Culture (ed.), The University of Alabama Press, 2011.

- Vikram Raghvan, Communication Law in India, Lexis Nexis Publication, 2007

- Iyer Vekat, Mass Media Laws and Regulations in India-Published by AMIC, 2000

- William Mazzarella, Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity, 2013

Suggestive readings:

- Raminder Kaur, William Mazzarella, Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction, 2009

- Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible, 1999