Unplugged: Living without the media

The University of Maryland's International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA), teamed with the Salzburg Global Seminar's Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is launching a global follow up to its first wildly successful "Without Media" study, completed in the Spring of 2010.

The experiment, called Unplugged, is part of a Salzburg Global Seminar collaboration developed last summer during the 4th annual  Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change and launched following a New Directions meeting of international journalism deans, sponsored in part by the Better Hong Kong Foundation.

ICMPA teamed up with the Salzburg Academy and its partner universities to ask students in ten universities worldwide if they can go 24 hours without any media. No internet, no phone, no email, no media. In an age of constant connection, this study asks how our dependence on media technologies have changed the way we think about the world, our communities, our relationships, and our dependencies. Unplugged also asks how students from all over the world see the role of media in their lives.

The study will conclude in Winter 2010, and the results will be published in early 2011. Read about the Unplugged Global study as reported by the BBC, by clicking HERE.

For more information on the Unplugged study, please write to:
icmpa@umd.edu

For more information on the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, please write to:
pmihailidis@salzburgglobal.org