UGC NET Mass Communication and Journalism — Paper 2, subject code 63

All ten units are written, in 23 chapters: two for each unit, except three for Unit 1, Introduction to Journalism and Mass Communication (the history of print and electronic media in India, the Press Council, the Press Commissions and media policy; models and theories of mass communication; Indian and Western traditions of communication, media and culture and globalisation), three for Unit 6, Media Laws and Ethics (the Constitution and Article 19(1)(a) with its leading cases; the criminal and statutory media laws; regulators, information and digital law, and ethics), and three for Unit 9, Film and Visual Communication (film and television theory and the national cinema movements; Indian cinema and television; visual communication, film language and rasa and dhvani). The units carry the document's own titles. Media law is taught as it now stands, with each superseded provision quoted as the syllabus gives it: the Indian Penal Code sections it cites were replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, in force from 1 July 2024, so defamation (IPC 499-502) is taught as BNS section 356, obscenity (IPC 292-294) as BNS sections 294 to 296, and sedition (IPC 124A, written "124(A)" in the syllabus) as omitted, after Kedar Nath Singh (1962) read it down and S. G. Vombatkere (2022) held it in abeyance, with BNS section 152 on acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India taught as a different offence; the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867 has been repealed and replaced by the Press and Registration of Periodicals Act 2023, in force from 1 March 2024, an Act about periodicals, and the course makes no claim about how books are now registered; the Cinematograph Act 1952 is taught as amended by the Cinematograph (Amendment) Act 2023, with age-based UA 7+, UA 13+ and UA 16+ categories, certificates valid in perpetuity and anti-piracy offences; the syllabus's "Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act 1995" is taught under its correct title, the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995, and the draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill only as a draft; the IT Act 2000 is taught with Shreya Singhal (2015), the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules 2021 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023; and the Working Journalists Act 1955 is taught as subsumed by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020, whose commencement should be checked. This is academic preparation, not legal advice. Media-planning, production and research figures are worked with checked answers: column-centimetre cost, gross rating points and cost per thousand, recognition and conversion rates, share of voice, frames, pixels and file sizes, click-through rates, a newspaper's break-even subsidy, an experimental effect, a sample size, inter-coder reliability, a standard deviation, chi-square degrees of freedom and a rank correlation. The document's slips are quoted and taught correctly: "dairy" (diary), "Mobile adaption" (adaptation), "Cable Television Network" (Networks), "124(A)" (124A) and "Malviya" (Malaviya). The overlap with material already on this platform was scoped precisely. Unit 2 and the communication models of Unit 1 touch NET Home Science's Unit IX, Communication for Development, which teaches the same field for extension workers; here it is written as a question for journalists and media scholars. Unit 1's communication and Unit 10's research methods touch the Paper-1 chapters and the research chapters of NET Sociology, Psychology, Home Science and Library and Information Science. Unit 6 touches NET Law's chapters on fundamental rights, torts, criminal law under the BNS and intellectual property and IT law, and NET Library and Information Science's chapters on information law and the 1867 Act, taught consistently with them. Unit 4 touches NET Management and Commerce on the marketing mix and consumer behaviour. Units 1, 8 and 9 touch NET Sociology on media, culture and the digital state; its passing mention of rasa is the only other place the platform touches Indian aesthetics. Each was opened and written independently from this document's own list, as journalism and media studies; nothing is adapted or reworded. Units 3, 5, 7 and 9, and most of Units 1 and 4, have no equivalent elsewhere on the platform.