Civic Voices: Justice, Rights and Social Change

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:

How do news media affect our understanding of ourselves, our cultures and our politics?
How can we use media to better cover global problems and better report on possible solutions?
How can media literacy make students more engaged citizens?

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.

Date

Jul 20 - Aug 09, 2015

Session no.

SAC 09

Location

Salzburg, Austria

Content overview

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Speaker Presentations

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 Living in fear of the rain: The impact of recent flooding in Greater Belfast. The British Red Cross report. 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