Media Ethics and the Law

Paper Code: 
CJMC 404
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to understand the various laws related to media prevailing in India.  It will also acquaint the students with the media ethics and pressures on media.

 

20.00
Unit I: 
I

Freedom of speech and expression and limitations , Press Council of India , First and second Press Commissions .Defamation- Libel and slander, Right to Privacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.00
Unit II: 
II

Right to Information. Broadcast Bill, NBA guidelines. Parliamentary Privileges, Censorship, Cinematograph Act. Sting Operations,  IT Act 2000, Contempt of Court.

20.00
Unit III: 
III

Advertisement & Women, Indecent representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Work Place  Act 2010 ,Sec 67 of IT Act 2000 and 292 IPC.AAAI,ASCI

10.00
Unit IV: 
IV

Copyright Act, Working Journalist Act, Parliamentary Privileges, Indian Penal Code. Sec 67 of IT Act 2000 and 292 IPC.

Unit V: 
V

Prasar Bharti Act, Right to Education,  Democracy and Media, Media & Economic Pressures. Hate Speech. Drugs and Magic Remedies Act 1954.

Essential Readings: 
  1. Thakurta, Paranjoy Guha, Media Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2009

 

  1. Barrie mc Donald and Michel Petheran Media Ethics,mansell,1998

 

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

 

  1. VikramRaghvan, Communication Law in India, Lexis Nexis Publication,2007

 

  1. IyerVekat, Mass Media Laws and Regulations in India-Published by AMIC, 2000

 

  1. William Mazzarella, Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

 

  1. RaminderKaur, William Mazzarella, Censorship in South Asia: CulturalRegulation from Sedition to Seduction .

 

  1. Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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