Communication

This course examines Singapore’s media law and policy with socio-legal and socioeconomic analysis, which is essential for good media practice. Students learn about legislation that consolidates the media legal framework in traditional areas such as broadcasting, print, advertising, film and art, etc.; as well as the new areas of concern such as social media, platform media, digital minorities, etc. Students will develop an understanding of the historical, cultural and particular contexts in the implementation and function of media law and policy by studying and contrasting different approaches in other nation-states.

This course focuses on intersections between Holocaust memory and cinema in the digital age. It discusses films from various countries and decades in relation to present challenges of commemorating the Holocaust in the 21st century and various concepts of cultural and collective memory. The course provides interdisciplinary knowledge in cinema studies, media studies, and memory studies. Students analyze visual culture in relation to social and historical discourses and situate current cinema in context of global memory cultures and digital technologies as well as within the film historical context. Students examine topics including the history of Holocaust cinema and other media representation of the Holocaust, contemporary discourses on Holocaust memory, analyzing films and other visual and digital medias and applying knowledge of narrative and stylistic conventions in order to explore media of memory as social and historiographical mediators in the global age, and using and applying theoretical and empirical concepts of Holocaust memory (including memory conflicts) on popular visual and digital culture.

The course introduces approaches and topics rooted in linguistics such as intercultural pragmatics (speech acts and linguistic politeness), sociolinguistics, intercultural semantics (cultural keywords and scripts), non-verbal communication, gender differences, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to understanding how identities and values are reflected and constructed through language and communication. It takes as a point of departure the idea that language is both a resource that enables communication and collaboration within a community, but can also act as a boundary between insiders and outsiders. In this context, paradigms to the study of culture, like the distinction between cultures as rooted in essences or functions and thus more objectivist or constructivist scientific worldview are also introduced and related to questions of the study of intercultural communication.

The course provides a broad overview of how citizens, politicians, and the media interact across Western democracies during both electoral and governing periods. While the course covers key aspects of political communication in the United Kingdom, the focus is mostly on the differences that exist in media-politics relationships across the Western world.

This course introduces common visual knowledge to provide a minimum of visual media literacy. Topics: the basic situation of visual communication development; basic theory and knowledge of visual communication; and entry-level visual communication practice skills.

This course examines the basic theoretical knowledge of the legal norms and ethical norms of news dissemination, carries out research on important legal and ethical issues that have emerged in the current practice of news communication in China through a combination of theories and case studies, helps students to learn, use, and obey news laws and ethics, so that they can not only conform to the characteristics of the Internet era, but also use relevant theoretical knowledge to analyze practical problems. Through the course, students will be trained and improve their legal literacy; maintain the right of news dissemination; fulfill the obligation of news dissemination; and observe the professional ethics of journalism.

This course includes the following topics: legal basis and legal thinking; overview of Chinese and foreign news communication laws and regulations; news communication activities and national security; news communication activities and social order; administrative management of news communication; news infringement; news communication activities and reputation protection; news communication activities and privacy protection; advertising message release and management; overview of news ethics; internet rumors and internet governance in China; internet governance and freedom of expression; internet and copyright infringement; Internet and personal information rights protection; Internet industry innovation and compliance research; financial information disclosure misrepresentation and insider trading, etc. ; maintain the authenticity of news; "hidden interviews"; prohibit news sensation, hype, and vulgarity; supervision of public opinion and "news trials"; prohibit "paid news", "paid negligence" and news blackmail.