The Writing for New Media is the class where I have to do this blog. It’s about the legal and ethical issues in writing. The other purpose is to learn how to write a blog (obviously) and practicing what we learned about the issues.
There is a lot of things what a journalist has to keep it in mind while writing. But also there is a lot of rules what every people should comply when they are posting on social media platforms but we don’t really think about it. Leastwise I’m not. So I was surprised at some points when we learned about copyrights and the intellectual property. There was a lot of really important things we have to do otherwise it can lead to serious lawsuits. I don’t want to scare anyone with this and stop them posting instead just before you do it, do a little research and know your rights. Maybe I can say that this was the most useful topic for me until now.
As I mentioned it in a previous blog post every module has a more practical lab and tutorial class. In the labs we are developing our blog sites and learn how to create a html website. I’m not too good at this technical and programming things using codes but it was interesting to see how some words (codes) can lead to a new website. It’s still not my favourite but definitely useful. It would be much more comfortable if I just had to write the posts and someone else dealing with creating my website. Of course it’s not an option, just kidding. That’s what I mention a lot of times that learning about and practicing every part of the medias is what makes this education better here.
In tutorials we mostly practicing those things what we learned in the lectures. For example once we had to find a copyright case and introduce it to the others. My example was the fake Banksy exhibition in Budapest which was opened some weeks ago. Most of the people thought that it’s an official Banksy exhibition organized by him and his team but turned out it’s not, it’s just from his original prints what they bought from his website. And what was interesting for me that it’s not punishable because after you buy someone’s art legally you can exhibit them and you don’t have to ask for their consent. But we heard some examples about music plagiarism cases which happens really often. But we also had to look after fake news and talk about them at the class. It’s not a good exercise only because we have to learn a lot of news or we have to be able to summarize a story but because we practice to stand out in front of the others and speak to people. It’s always scares me a little bit especially because I have to speak a language which is not my first in front of native speakers but as I saw it everyone understood what I wanted to say and they are so nice and patient. Or they are just too polite.
So in this module we learn about a lot of different things but mostly about those what’s included in the ethical issues field and of course blogging. I hope a bit later you can see it too that I’m practicing it!
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