Responsible Content: Children, Families and Sensitive Topics
Featuring children and covering sensitive topics responsibly: duty of care, consent, assent and dignity, Canadian privacy, Quebec civil and consumer law, child performer rules and voluntary set-asides, platform rules for minors, family privacy and safety, safe messaging on suicide and eating disorders, grief and trauma, misinformation, accessibility, children's advertising and brand terms, and a capstone responsible content policy.
CRE-450 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h 33 min
Offered by HSM University · Content Creation
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain why content involving children and sensitive topics needs special care and apply a duty-of-care check before publishing
- Apply consent, assent, dignity and workload principles to children in content, using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Describe Canadian privacy, civil, consumer, child performer and criminal law affecting children in content, and calculate voluntary set-asides
- Distinguish content featuring minors from content made for children and follow platform policies on labels, comments and livestreams
- Reduce privacy and safety risks in family content using data minimization, location scoring, delayed posting and misuse reporting
- Discuss mental health and suicide using safe-messaging guidelines, content warnings, crisis resources and kind responses to viewers in crisis
- Create eating-disorder-safe content about food, bodies and fitness, label edited images and screen appearance sponsorships
- Cover grief, trauma, violence, true crime and disasters with ongoing consent, trauma-informed practice and respect for legal limits
- Verify claims with SIFT and lateral reading, correct errors visibly, use prebunking and explain the legal context for misinformation
- Make content accessible with captions, audio description, alt text, sufficient contrast and plain language, and portray people inclusively
- Apply advertising rules for children, child-friendly disclosure, brand suitability, child welfare standards and protective contract terms
- Write, apply and review a responsible content policy for a family channel, supported by an audit and calculated measures
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 33 min total · final exam
- 1 Why responsible content matters 27 min · quiz
- 2 Children in content: consent, dignity and the digital footprint 26 min · quiz
- 3 Child creator, performer and privacy law in Canada 29 min · quiz
- 4 Platform policies for minors and family content 26 min · quiz
- 5 Privacy and safety practices for family content 26 min · quiz
- 6 Mental health, suicide and safe messaging 27 min · quiz
- 7 Eating disorders, body image and appearance content 26 min · quiz
- 8 Grief, trauma, violence and disasters 28 min · quiz
- 9 Misinformation and responsibility 26 min · quiz
- 10 Accessibility and inclusion 30 min · quiz
- 11 Working with brands on family and sensitive content 30 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a responsible content policy for a family channel 32 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Featuring children and covering sensitive topics responsibly: duty of care, consent, assent and dignity, Canadian privacy, Quebec civil and consumer law, child performer rules and voluntary set-asides, platform rules for minors, family privacy and safety, safe messaging on suicide and eating disorders, grief and trauma, misinformation, accessibility, children's advertising and brand terms, and a capstone responsible content policy.
Part of the Film & Photography stream, typically taken in year 4.