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The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is a multidimensional initiative that provides curricular materials, training and support for journalism schools, programs and classrooms across the world. It is organized through a network of participating universities in China, East Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the UK, Latin and North America and brings together expert Faculty and around 70 students, from undergraduate to Ph.D level.
The Academy’s objective is to lead the creation of global media literacy curricula, multimedia stories, and comparative research, and to become a leading hub for global media education in the 21st Century. The curriculum developed over the past six years has led to the publication of News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom by Academy Director, Paul Mihailidis. Students work in international teams and across disciplines.
Some of the key questions addressed by students were:
Each year, participants build web-based and downloadable lesson modules on how global media cover issues of critical importance. Past topics have included Terrorism, Climate Change, Religion and Civic Voice and Protest.
The overarching themes in 2015 were “Civic Voices: Justice, Rights, and Social Change”. Students identified emerging challenges to civic rights and justice in their respective communities and analyzed how digital culture and media supporting social progress in a more globally connected world. This work emerged in the form of case studies of community change, and instances where civic activism helped bring forth the marginalized and oppressed voices around the world. In 2015, the Academy was working with the Media for Change initiative founded by University of Miami's professor Sanjeev Chatterjee and Engagement Lab at Emerson College.
Paul Mihailidis, Program Director, Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria & Associate Professor, Emerson College, USA
Clare Shine, Vice President & Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Margot Steenbergen, Program Officer, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Netherlands
Community Resilience in Urban Areas (CRUA) - Summary. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center
Susan Moeller, Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, University of Maryland, USA (Available Upon Request)
Ivan Sigal, Executive Director, Global Voices, USA
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, Researcher of political communication, Iberoamericana University, Mexico
Stephen Reese, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Moody College of Communications, the University of Texas at Austin, USA
Eric Gordon, Founding Director, Engagement Lab, Emerson College, USA (slides upon request)
Maya Morsy, Regional Gender Team Leader, UNDP Regional Bureau of Arab States, Egypt
Roman Gerodimos, Principal Lecturer in Global Current Affairs, Bournemouth University, UK
Anthony Ioannidis, Founder, IAsquare, UK
Stephen Salyer, President & CEO, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Sanjeev Chatterjee, Award Winning Documentary Media Maker & Professor at University of Miami, USA; and Rhys Daunic, Founder & Director, The Media Spot, USA
Bruno Smadja, Founder, Mobile Film Festival, France
Moses Shumow, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Florida International University, USA
Belen M. Smole, Teacher, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
Do not hesitate to contact program associate Ginte Stankeviciute (Ms.) with any questions you may have at gstankeviciute@SalzburgGlobal.org
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