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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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COMM 3110U – Communication Ethics: Making Media for the Social Good

Communication ethics refers to the principles and standards that guide how we conduct ourselves when communicating. What ethical frameworks are available for helping us to make judgements about what is “good” or “bad” about various media? What conditions help or hinder ethical frameworks for guiding our professional communication and media creation practices? How can we uphold ethical frameworks of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, self-restraint, equity, diversity, inclusivity, and sustainability?  How are our ethics employed when producing, circulating, consuming, using, and interacting with media? This course is based in theoretical concepts of philosophy and employs historical and contemporary case studies to address and analyze ethical behaviour in interpersonal, mass-mediated, and social media communication.  Students learn how to conduct themselves as ethically minded media-makers and users, and understand how to become professional communicators in ways that make our society and culture more just and good.