Ethics

Code	9506
Year	1
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Mode of delivery	Face to face.
Learning outcomes	This curricular unit aims to promote refection about the ethical questions regarding the journalistic practice and raise awareness to the importance of professional ethics by emphasising the role of journalism in the general and ethic-moral formation of individuals. At the end of the unit students should be able to (i) explain the role and value of the professional ethics; (ii) state the main contents of journalistic deontology; (iii) discuss the purposes and implications of the journalists’ deontological code; (iv) evaluate the journalistic practice in the light of ethical principles and deontological norms.
Syllabus	1. Propaedeutics 1.1. Ethics and moral: definitions 1.2. Ethical typology 2. Ethics at work 2.1. Applied ethics 2.2. Ethics, deontology and law 2.3. Professional ethics in the media 2.4. Business ethics – journalism in the business logic 2.5. Ethics and digital journalism 3. Ethics and deontology in journalism 3.1. The deontological code as a normative support 3.2. The contents of the deontological codes 3.3. Weaknesses and strengths of deontology 3.4. Ethical dilemmas
Main Bibliography	AURÉLIO, D. P., Livro de Reclamações. Exercícios de deontologia da informação, Lisboa, Editorial Notícias, 2001. BÉGIN, L. (dir.), L’Éthique au Travail, Montréal, Liber, 2009. BERNIER, M.-F., Éthique et Déontologie du Journalisme, Saint-Foy, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2004. BLÁZQUEZ, N., La Nueva Ética en los Medios de Comunicación, Madrid, BAC, 2002. CORNU, D., Journalisme et Vérité. Jornalismo e Verdade. Para uma ética da informação, trad. A. P. Silva, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 1994. FAUSTINO, P. (org.), Ética e Responsabilidade Social dos Media, Porto, Formalpress, col. Media XXI, 2007. LIBOIS, B., Éthique de l’Information. Essai sur la déontologie journalistique, Bruxelas, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 1994. PERALES, E. (coord.), Ética de la Información y deontologías del periodismo, Madrid, Tecnos, 1995. PERALES, E. (ed.), Ética de la Comunicación Audiovisual – Materiales para una ética mediática, Madrid, Tecnos, 1999. RICO, L., VILLEGAS, J. & JIMÉNEZ, M. (ed.), Desafíos éticos de la comunicación en la era digital, Madrid, Editorial Dykinson, s.d. WECKERT, J. e ADENEY, D., Computer and Information Ethics. Ética Informática y de las Ciencias de la Información, trad. P. Asenjo, Madrid, Fragua Editorial, 2000.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.