| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Freedom and Control in the Media |
| Unit ID: | FLMES2451 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (BATCC1001 or BATCC1002 or FLMES1001 or FLMES1002) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (ATSGC2451 and ATSGC3451 and FLMES3451) |
| ASCED: | 100799 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit introduces students to key issues and debates about media regulation, freedom and control. Topics address issues of media ownership, convergence, censorship and classification, globalisation and piracy. Students explore the policy frameworks that respond to these issues, and their implications and effects. The unit examines histories of different regulatory procedures, their present forms, and their particular application in an Australian context.
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| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
| 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. | Analyse a range of media policy issues and their effects.
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| K2. | Comprehend the challenges facing the media policy landscape.
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| K3. | Appraise and utilise key debates, issues and perspectives informing the study of media regulation, freedom and control.
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Research and explain media policy problems and debates.
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| S2. | Express substantiated, reasoned expositions and arguments concerning the history and development of selected media policy issues and their social, political, economic and cultural effects.
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| S3. | Summarise themes, rhetorics, issues and debates that define media regulation and media policy decisions.
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply skills in critical thinking and analysis to argue, write about and discuss media policy issues, decisions and factors affecting the regulatory landscape.
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| A2. | Utilise and integrate relevant rhetorical frameworks in analysing 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 the study of media regulation, freedom and control.
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: 1.What is media policy? 2.Approaches to policy analysis 3.Ownership and control 4.Convergence 5.Classification and censorship 6.Globalisation 7.Internet regulation 8.Surveillance and privacy 9.Piracy |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| The Federation University graduate attributes (GA) are entrenched in the Higher Education Graduate Attributes Policy (LT1228).Federation University Australia graduates develop these graduate attributes through their engagement in explicit learning and teaching and assessment tasks that are embedded in all Federation Courses. Graduate attribute attainment typically follows an incremental development process mapped through Course progression. One or more graduate attributes must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each Federation University Australia Unit, and all attributes must be directly assessed in each Course. |
| Graduate attribute and descriptor | Development and acquisition of GAs in the Unit | Learning outcomes
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(AT#) | GA 1
Thinkers | Our graduates are curious, reflective and critical. Able to analyse the world in a way that generates valued insights, they are change makers seeking and creating new solutions. | K1, K2, K3, A1, A2, A3 | AT1, AT2, AT3 | GA 2
Innovators | Our graduates have ideas and are able to realise their dreams. They think and act creatively to achieve and inspire positive change. | K2, A4 | AT3 | GA 3
Citizens | Our graduates engage in socially and culturally appropriate ways to advance individual, community and global well-being. They are socially and environmentally aware, acting ethically, equitably and compassionately. | K1, K2, K3, S2 | AT2, AT3 | GA 4
Communicators | Our graduates create, exchange, impart and convey information, ideas, and concepts effectively. They are respectful, inclusive and empathetic towards their audience, and express thoughts, feelings and information in ways that help others to understand. | S1, S2, S3, A1, A4 | AT1, AT2, AT3 | GA 5
Leaders | Our graduates display and promote positive behaviours, and aspire to make a difference. They act with integrity, are receptive to alternatives and foster sustainable and resilient practices. | S2, A4 | AT3 |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3
| Demonstrate understanding of key themes and concepts through analysis of set topic material. | Essay | 30-45% | | 2. | K1, K3, S1, S3, A2 | Provide focused and informed responses to policy concepts, regulatory changes, debates and issues. | Online learning tasks | 10-20% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Application of unit concepts to analysis of a defined case study in policy and regulation. | Case Study Analysis | 40-55% |
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