Click on the graphic below and go to a new page to hear 6 journalists & professors from around the world share their insights on many of the core issues facing today's news media.

Listen too as these journalists talk about how media literacy can help news rooms come to grips with journalism's challenges in the digital era.



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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.
 



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1.  Netizenship in China
Influencing public opinion, private life and official corruption.

2.  Micro-communication
A short note left in an old bomb...

3.  Impressionistic media
Criticisms of Twitter parallel past criticims of new forms of art...

from a scathing 1874 review of a Monet seascape

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Academy Launches New Mulitmedia Initiative

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Salzburg Academy creates "Global Media Literacy Shorts" to address some of the presssing issues in media and citizenship in the 21st century.

The Academy Experience, 2007 - Present

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How does the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change affect those students who attend the summer program?

Academy's Lesson Plans in Use Around the World

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Universities, secondary schools, ministries of education, NGOs and international organizations are just some of the institutions teaching media literacy via the Salzburg Academy.

Ivory Post: Student Anita Tibasaaga Writes

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Academy Student Anita Tibasaaga, from Makerere University, Kampala, reports on the Salzburg Academy for an Ugandan online newspaper.

Voices at the Academy

Sir Gilbert Levine: United in Music

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How can musicians, clergy of all faiths, as well as students can strive for peace among religious cultures through the message and medium of music?

Tom Stoppard: A "Lever" to Move the World

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"Journalists of your generation," said British playwright Tom Stoppard, "very often and quite rightly are considering things you'd like to change in the world..."

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 Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave.

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.