Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CONNECTIST-ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES, sa.55, ss.61-76, 2018 (ESCI)
This study explores the syllabi used at communication faculties/departments in Turkey with the goal of examining how media ethics is taught at the undergraduate level. Since 1990s, we have witnessed fundamental changes in the media landscape and the proliferation of communication faculties in Turkey. Despite these changes, curriculum planning involving ethics has received little attention within communication studies. Faculties have tended to orient themselves too much toward the profession and too little toward the academy. We assume that this trend overemphasizes the realities of the market while ignoring moral reasoning through the role of profession in a democratic political system. Today, the media profession suffers from ownership concentration and politicization. Turkey has a poor record on press freedom mainly because of the methods used by the government to pressure and control media outlets and journalists. Under these circumstances, exploring the ways of seeing ethics in media education seems more crucial to us. To assess the current scenery of media ethics education in Turkey, syllabi of ethics courses from various faculties were collected to be analysed primarily for their subject content, but some other issues were considered as well, such as course descriptions, objectives, assessment techniques, and teaching methods.