VIDEO: Issues in Global Media Literacy

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In 2009, the Salzburg Academy launched a multi-media initiative to address the need to to tell stories about global media in different ways and using different media technologies.

Since then, Academy students, faculty and guest journalists have produced short videos to highlight some of the most pressing issues in global media today.

Below you will find an "Editors' Choice" assortment of videos created for this multi-media initiative. Each is accompanied by a brief summary of the film. Authors and credits can be found at the end of the film. Other films created in this initiative can be found elsewhere on this site, linked to lesson modules and case studies. Even more videos can be found on the Academy's YouTube page.

We appreciate any comments and feedback, and hope these videos stimulate discussion both inside and out of the classroom.


EDITORS' CHOICE VIDEOS - 2010

Agenda Setting in the Media - This mock newscast asks students from all over the world how they see media setting agendas in their home nations.



Media And Corporate Censorship: This short explores how language and censorship have influenced some of the major political and civic issues in the last 20 years.


The Third Screen By telling the story of an individual trapped in the rubble of a hotel collapsed after the earthquake in Haiti, and the Blackberry ban in the Middle East, this short asks how cellphones are changing the media landscape as we know it


Global Access, Global Action offers a stylized look at how the civic voice has grown over the last five years, and calls to action citizens across the world to engage with the issues that will define this generation



Fight For Freedom - This touching vignette shows those fallen while trying to report on issues that many would rather not talk about


What does Freedom of the Press Mean to You? explores the limits of what we can say, when, how, and to what end...



Sex, Lies, and Facebook - In the style of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, this stylized short asks what facebook does to our lives personally, now that we've all done it

Global Warming in Frames makes the case for more advocacy-based journalism on climate change to help spur the dialog and debate on the issues about the environment



Social Media Credibility uses a mock rumor spread by social media to ask: The speed of information sharing is faster and easier but who is controlling it? Where does that leave core journalism values such as objectivity, accuracy and balance?

 

EDITORS' CHOICE VIDEOS - 2009

The Power of Citizen Journalists - The following video explores how Chinese citizen journalists – called "Netizens" – have used the Internet to hold Chinese public officials accountable for prison violence.



Covering Politics: Framing the News - This video details how media portrayed US President Barack Obama's visit to Ghana in 2008 shaping his visit to reflect on international relations and US-African collaboration.


Journalism is a dangerous job - This powerful video briefly brings viewers into the lives and deaths of those journalists who were murdered around the world in 2009.


When Media Focus on Drugs: Chile - The following video outlines the Spice Drug epidemic in Chile and how media has covered the drug and the government's response to crisis.



When Media Focus on Government Corruption: the UK - This video investigates media coverage of a Parlimentary scandal in Britain.


The Power of Photography: Turkey - This moving video outlines how a photo can shift public opinion.


The Cost of Holding Government Accountable: Guatemala - How can journalists report truth when their governments are corrupt? This video details one horrific case of a journalist who was murdered for trying to hold the Guatemalan government accountable for its actions.


How Rumors Get Started: The US and 9/11 - This video outlines how a journalist's coverage of 9/11 was taken out of context and used to "document" conspiracy theories.


Ethics in Media: "Killing" a President (Just Kidding!) - The following video considers problems that arise when entertainment media put "real people" into fictionalized situations.

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