This seminar seeks to develop the major issues related to the social responsibility of the  media  and in particular with the individual responsibility of the journalist, as well as the ethical and deontological means for their pursuit. Major contemporary debates on freedom of expression, professional secrecy, codes of professional conduct as well as the role of influence magistratures and regulatory bodies will be able to be the subject of research, in a perspective that is desired in "rupture" with common sense and corporate and professional discourse.