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2023/2024

Критические исследования медиаправа

Статус: Маго-лего
Кто читает: Институт медиа
Когда читается: 4 модуль
Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 3
Контактные часы: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course is aimed at improving students’ awareness of legal issues in the media industry. Topics to be covered include freedom of expression, privacy and personal data protection in the digital field, intellectual property and copyright protection, as well as advertising regulation. The course will touch on global trends in digital media platforms regulation. It will examine the role of social media platforms in online content regulation and users’ data commodification. The focus of the course is on a critical analysis of how the law applies to the media industry.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To develop an understanding of the role of law in the capitalist society
  • To examine peculiarities of privacy and personal data protection in the digital field
  • To introduce students to the major trends in the regulation of digital media platforms
  • To provide insight into the basics of copyright law
  • To develop students ability to critically evaluate media laws, policies, and regulations
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the role of media law in maintaining the status quo of society
  • Identify the main sources of media law at the international level
  • Discuss and reflect over freedom of expression in a national, regional and global setting
  • Critically analyze specific media laws, regulations and policies
  • Critically examine how media law upholds the right to privacy and personal data protection
  • Explain how copyright law applies in the production of media content
  • Specify the basic restrictions and requirements for online advertising
  • Appraise media law cases
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Power and inequality in the capitalist society: Media and law
  • Online content regulation: The role of governments, platforms, and Internet users
  • Privacy and personal data protection in the digital field
  • Copyright protection
  • Advertising regulation
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Test
  • non-blocking Case analysis
  • non-blocking Debates on social media content moderation
  • non-blocking Collective discussion on transparency obligations for digital platforms
  • non-blocking Final essay
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.1 * Case analysis + 0.1 * Collective discussion on transparency obligations for digital platforms + 0.15 * Debates on social media content moderation + 0.5 * Final essay + 0.15 * Test
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Nataraj Venkataramanan, & Ashwin Shriram. (2017). Data Privacy : Principles and Practice. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Armand Mattelart, & Michael Palmer. (1993). Shaping the European Advertising Scene. Commercial free speech in search of legitimacy. Réseaux. The French Journal of Communication, 1(1), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.3406/reso.1993.3268
  • Castells, M. (2013). Communication Power (Vol. 2nd edition). Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=620218
  • Fuchs, C. (2019). Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Pluto Press.

Authors

  • PEREIASLOV ALEKSEI DENISOVICH