| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Future Shaping and Media Policy |
| Unit ID: | BADIG3001 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (BADIG1001 or BATCC1001 or BATCC1002) (At least 30 credit points from BADIG or BAFLM or BATCC subject-area at 2000-2999 level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (BADIG2001 and FLMES2451 and FLMES3451) |
| ASCED: | 100799 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This advanced-level unit introduces media policy and explores the dynamics of media regulation in the digital era. Students will examine policy frameworks and contexts across various media industries, analyse contemporary regulatory issues and events, and consider what these conditions and developments mean for the future. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | |  | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Critically examine a range of characteristics, contexts, purposes and effects of media policy. |
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| K2. | Comprehend and elucidate challenges in the contemporary policy landscape and implications for the future. |
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| K3. | Appraise and utilise key debates, issues and perspectives informing media regulation in the digital age. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Research and explain, at an advanced level, policy problems and debates relating to media industries and practices in the digital era. |
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| S2. | Express substantiated, reasoned expositions and arguments concerning the development of selected media policy issues, their social, political, economic and cultural effects and implications for the future. |
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| S3. | Critically review themes, rhetorics, issues and debates that define media regulation and media policy decisions in the digital era |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate developed skills in critical thinking and analysis to assess, argue and discuss, in written, verbal, and/or visual forms, policy issues, decisions and factors relating to the contemporary media landscape. |
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| A2. | Utilise and integrate relevant rhetorical frameworks in analysing and communicating about a range of examples of media regulation and their effects. |
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| A3. | Identify links and tensions between issues, debates, concepts and perspectives that define media regulation in the digital era. |
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| A4. | Demonstrate an advanced level of scholarship by co-designing relevant and authentic assessment relating to media policy in the digital era. |
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| A5. | Engage in critical reflection and assessment of learnings and experiences. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: - What is media policy?
- Forms and characteristics of media policy
- Reasons for media regulation/policy rhetorics
- Media regulation in the digital era
- Doing policy analysis
- Analysis of media industries and their regulatory structures, conditions, issues and challenges
- Contemporary regulatory issues, challenges, and examples across media sectors
- Applied analysis and/or presentation of media policy issues
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| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S3, A1, A2, A3, A4 | Demonstrate understanding of key issues and concepts according to specified criteria for advanced level students. Exact task format and options will be provided in the unit description. | Written and/or multimedia format | 20-35% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S2, S3, A5 | Reflect on key unit learnings and/or experiences. | Critical reflections | 20-30% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3, A4 | Address a policy issue, example, or problem identified by the student. Independently research and present an analysis of the chosen topic, making use of relevant resources, materials, and examples. The specific format options will be specified in the unit description. | Case study or issues analysis | 40-55% |
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