Responsible Content: Children, Families and Sensitive Topics
Featuring children and covering sensitive topics responsibly: duty of care, consent, assent and dignity, state child influencer laws, Coogan accounts and COPPA, 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 31 min
Offered by HSM University · Content Creation
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian 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 US state child influencer laws, Coogan accounts and COPPA, and calculate required 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 31 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 influencer laws, Coogan accounts and COPPA in the US 28 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 26 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, state child influencer laws, Coogan accounts and COPPA, 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.