Transforming the world
through Global Media Literacy.

Check out the Salzburg Academy's Global Media Literacy curriculum and lesson plans to find out how you can help promote global awareness and understanding.

  • How and why do different news media send different messages?
  • What are the roles media play in global affairs and policy?

Those are the questions asked at the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. The Academy opened its second annual session on July 29, 2008.

Video produced by James Blue & edited by Matthias Tomasi

"Freedom of expression:
the tool to use everyday.

To be able to remain silent, to be able to speak aloud, to say what you think with no fear and to use your voice and thoughts in order to express yourself.

That’s what it is: mankind’s way of saying 'here I am.' And my way of saying 'there I will be.' "

Natalia Bocassi, Salzburg Academy Student

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Salzburg Academy Visitors and Members.

The third session of the Salzburg Academy begins this summer. This world map tracks the location and home institution of some of the thousands of users of the Global Media Literacy curriculum created by the students and faculty of the first two Salzburg Academy sessions.
 

For a realtime version that tracks all current visitors to the curriculum since May 3, 2009, please click on the map at the bottom of the page.

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The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

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The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations' Media Literacy Clearinghouse joins forces with the Salzburg Academy to offer resources and dialog around global media literacy.

UNESCO: The Importance of Freedom of Expression

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“Everytime a Sudanese refugee is heard on radio it’s a sign to the perpetrators of genocide that they have failed,” said UNESCO officer George Papagiannis.

Discovery Producer James Blue: "Telling the Story"

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It's essential for journalists reporting global events to tell “the story taking place around the story,” said producer James Blue in his Keynote Address to the 2008 Academy.

What Does Freedom of Expression Mean?

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Where are you from? How do you define Freedom of Expression? A Google Map tracks what the 2008 Salzburg Academy students have to say.

What Others Are Saying

Peter Sutherland, Chair BP & Goldman Sachs Int'l

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"Media literacy must become an essential component of national, European and global policy agendas," noted Peter Sutherland.

Vanessa Redgrave: The Courage to Express the Truth

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“We are not aware of what’s going on that the camera hasn’t focused on," said Academy-award winning actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Daniel Barenboim Closes the First Salzburg Academy

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“In music you don’t express just yourself, you listen to others and are an accompaniment to them,” observed Maestro Daniel Barenboim.

Justice Kennedy Opens the First Salzburg Academy

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“Judges and journalists play critical and parallel roles in securing freedom,” declared U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.