Class Ethics and Communication Law

This curricular unit, divided into three programmatic nuclei, aims to address some aspects of classical ethics’ problems and their development on nowadays societies, on a broad sense and on a specific communicational aspect.  This will cover several dimensions of contemporary communicational reality, analyzed from the point of view of the ethical practices required on a deontological, axiological or methodological nature. It is also intended to deepen the sense of social responsibility inherent in the professions and media activities. The third part addresses the juridical questions on the specific matters of Portuguese communication’s regulation. On the overall sense, the UC is critical to the future development of the studies on Communication Sciences and to the further student’s professional life.

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1. Ethics

1.1. Ethics and Moral

1.2 Deontology and Axiology

1.3. Origin of Ethics in the Platonic Dialogues

1.4. Ethical Structures: Teleological; deontological; Consequentialists.

1.5. From Virtues to Imperatives (Aristotle and Kant)

1.5. Ethical Currents: The Ethics of Virtues; Contractualism; Utilitarianism; Communitarianism.

1.5. Ethics and contemporaneity (Tension asceticism/hedonism). Practical Ethics.

1.6. Emotivism; Ethical Egoism; Moral Blindness.

1.7. Problems in Ethics and Communication. The sensory borderline.

1.8. Inform, Entertain and Info-entertain.

1.9. From deontology to ethics in informational mediation

2. The Right and the Laws

2.1. The Law and the Communication’s Regulation.

2.2. Fundamental aspects of the legal regulation of the action of the Portuguese Media (Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising).

Students are encouraged to carry out their own research in the formulation of ethical and deontological problems throughout the semester. The final evaluation consists of the oral critical presentation of a work (individually or in a group of no more than three people) corresponding to 40% of the classification, submission via Moodle of the final written version of this work (maximum length of 5 pp. of text, Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spaces The remaining 20% ¿¿corresponds to the quality of class participation.

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• FIDALGO, J. & CHRISTOFOLETTI, R., (Orgs.) (2014). Ética na Comunicação. Revista de Comunicação e Sociedade (25).

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• SANDEL, M. J. (2015). Justiça. Civilização. Brasileira

• SINGER, P. (2006). Como havemos de viver? A ética numa época de individualismo. Dinalivro.

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