Spring 2018 - CMNS 333 D100

Broadcast Policy,Law and Regulation in a Global Context (4)

Class Number: 2962

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Wed, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    CMNS 230 or 240; and 261.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Television, in various formats, in Canada, is traditionally seen as important to political and cultural self-determination. The production, financing, and distribution of information and entertainment TV services are restructuring, with profound consequences for broadcast law and regulation in global markets. The rudiments of strategic analysis of stakeholders, companies, industrial sectors (strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities) and technical policy writing and interventions will be covered. A simulation will be staged around a convergence theme drawn from the contemporary regulatory agenda in Canada.

COURSE DETAILS:

Overview:

New broadcasting technologies change long grown economic and political structures.  This creates challenges and opportunities for regulators, policy-makers, content producers, distributors, and audiences.  New platform formats, such as Facebook Live, establish additional arenas for distributing and consuming content, while legacy broadcasters explore new means for distributing content through application software, on their webpages and off-site.

In this seminar, students will research current processes, policy programs, involved stakeholders, and related public discourses evolving around the re-definition of broadcasting.  Students will learn how to assess questions regarding interests, responsibilities, values and rights, when it comes to content distribution, production and consumption.  Students will discuss the tensions that arise between the national-regional and global jurisdictions, and how these are relevant to their own everyday-life.

Note:  Attendance in the first session is mandatory for all students.   

Grading

  • To be confirmed in the first class.
  • Attendance 10%
  • Group Presentation 20%
  • Empirical Group Work 25%
  • Self-Reflective Take-Home Essay 15%
  • Theory Based Take-Home Essay 30%
  • Evaluation is based on both individual and group assignments.

NOTES:

A minimum 2.25 CMNS GPA and 2.00 overall CGPA, and approval as a communication student is required for entry into most communication upper division courses.

The School expects that the grades awarded in this course will bear some reasonable relation to established university-wide practices with respect to both levels and distribution of grades.  In addition, the School will follow Policy S10.01 with respect to Academic Integrity, and Policies S10.02, S10.03 and S10.04 as regards Student Discipline.  [Note: as of May 1, 2009, the previous T10 series of policies covering Intellectual Honesty (T10.02), and Academic Discipline (T10.03) have been replaced with the new S10 series of policies.]

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

All readings will be made available on Canvas.

Registrar Notes:

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

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