Knowledge and Skills

Key Knowledge

• ethical and legal issues in the media

Key Skill

• evaluate ethical and legal issues in the media

Key terms and concepts

• media ethics: issues of moral principles and vales as applied to the conduct, roles and content of the mass media (how should the media act?)
• media law: a set of rules and regulations created by a government (what rules must the media follow?)
• media production: how a media product is made and the issues that may arise
• media distribution: how the media product is delivered to audiences and the issues that may arise
• consumption and reception: how a media product is received by an audience, both by how they physically receive it and how they understand it

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