Class Highlights

I think there is a long list of new things which I have learned from this class. My whole perspective of viewing media has been changed after taking this class. And the most amazing thing is Pakistani media is alot different from American media. I found American media lot more complicated and interesting then Pakistani media by all means.
I learned lots of new  terms used in media such as Green wash, pseudo events,stringers, Spyware (the scary term) etc. There were many discussions in the class which I did not know about and I searched for them after the discussion. I felt like before this class I was totally out of this world. =D
It was so intersting to know that people in this class knew most of the current events and all of them had different opinion about it. To look at each topic from different point of veiw developed an interest in me to think outside the box. I think a quater is a real short time to get to know so many interesting people with their different perspectives on  media.
I Came to know about South Park, Paris Hilton, and the history of media from this class. I learned that media have both negative and positive effects on people, it is totally upto people how they take the message.
Last but not least the presentations were the best part of this class specially the Presentation on the censorship of interenet in Iran.     

Media Ethics

Lawyers and judges made a series of blunders using social websites in 2009.  Judges “friended” lawyers they should not have.  Lawyers blogged about matters they should not have. The Philadelphia Bar issued an ethics opinion condemning as “deception” a lawyer’s conduct in making a “friend request” of a witness in order to obtain access to the witness’s Facebook page where, it was hoped, the lawyer could find useful evidence.  [First edit:  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an FOIA suit to obtain government documents, including DOJ documents, relating to investigations, fact-gathering, and surveillance using social websites.  If email has been "where the best facts are," then social websites are catching up fast.] 

According to me it is Privacy matter, these people should keep their personal an proffesional life apart from each other alos it is misappropriate that people are catching up each other on such sites.