​This course deals with the ethical and legislative foundations of media and communication professions as well as the organizational frameworks that regulate these professions in today’s digital age. This course focuses on understanding global legal and regulatory contexts as well as national ones. Moreover, it examines honor codes and codes of conduct that govern communication and digital media professions. The course will also focus on professional values such as the protection of privacy, confidentiality, avoiding defamation and misinformation, spreading rumors, intellectual property rights, the ethics of data collection and use, free access to information, ethical contents, the creative Digital Commons agreements, conflicts of interest, news ethics and values, dealing with public complaints, and the rights and obligations of communicators towards the digital media community​