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GLO 580: Digital Media Law in a Global Context: Frameworks & Perspectives

This course will take you on a global journey through the law of digital communications, including but not limited to free speech v. hate speech, intellectual property, defamation, privacy, the right to be forgotten, access to information, media regulatory mechanisms and frameworks promulgated by governmental bodies, as well as those regulatory mechanisms and frameworks used by non-governmental bodies (such as the platform “law” concept used by Facebook and Twitter.) You will learn about comparative historical and theoretical legal concepts important to media professionals and responsible digital citizen-scholars.

GLO 698: Capstone

The capstone may be a professional portfolio, a professional project or an academic paper. Professional Portfolio allows students to compile a dossier that aggregates and adds to work from the program. This could include but is not limited to a website for prospective employers that showcases a professional biography, updated résumé or CV, and writing or multimedia samples. Professional Project allows those with professional experience in journalism to complete a journalistic project for the degree. Those with nonprofit, governmental, intergovernmental or policy work background may write a grant proposal, policy paper, global media studies course development or other major work for the capstone. Academic Paper allows those with theoretical, conceptual and methodological backgrounds to complete a small study for the capstone. Students selecting this option must have taken Global Media Theories, Concepts & Research Methods.

GLO 560: Disinformation & Information Security in a Global Media Context

This course explores the concept of disinformation and theories of propaganda to contextualize contemporary issues in cases around the world. Also covered are the spread of online misinformation and disinformation, the growing issue of information security in open and closed media ecosystems, public receptiveness to correcting misinformation and disinformation, surveillance tactics targeting journalists and tools for verifying information in text, images, video and audio.