Professional ethics and information law

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2016/2017
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2016/2017
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
8
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
64
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (64 hours)
Final Examination: 
Orale
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Course description and learning objectives

The course gives the essential tools for the understanding and the analysis of main juridical problems about journalist’s professional deontology and communication law, about constitutional principles and those deduceble from European Convention of Human Rights and from judicial cases (European Court of Human Rights, Constitutonal Court, ordinary civil and criminal judges’ jurisprudence).

Final assessment

Oral test.

Subject of the course will be the analysis of both positive law and juridical, disciplinary, trial cases, concerning paper, TV and web information. Journalistic profession’s deontological priciples will be deeped through Deontological Code and other legislative textes’ study. The method will be essentially based on the laws exegesis and pratical cases’ illustration.

R. Razzante, "Informazione: istruzioni per l'uso", Cedam, 2014.

G. Giliberti, "Introduzione storica ai diritti umani", Giappichelli, 2012

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