Each year, as a major part of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, Fellows work together in groups to produce their own media outputs centered around the key theme of that year's Academy.
These digital publications feature stories, reflections, and ideas inspired by the programs they've attended. Read more below about the publications created by Fellows in recent years.
The final publication, "Love Against the Machine", of the 2024 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "Belonging in the Age of Machines: Reimagining the Soul of Media". This program asked how we could support and prioritize human belonging, compassion, attentiveness, and solidarity in a time of increasingly invasive technologies. We explored what practices and pedagogies could advance relations and radical co-existence. Alternative truths and existing inequities threatened the best of intentions for machine learning and artificial intelligence. At a time of global conflict and strife, we looked for pedagogies that centered care and the humanities as a way to develop with technology and communities that were both positive and productive. As we looked around the world, the need to fight for more inclusive and connected futures was of great urgency.
The final publication, "Lovers, Lunatics, and Poets," of the 2023 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "Imagining Inclusive and Equitable Futures." This program asked how we can imagine more inclusive futures through visioning media practices and pedagogies that work to advance meaningful and robust human connections and interdependency in digital culture. The 2023 Media Academy focused specifically on how we can use immersive pedagogies to nurture transformational futures, where media practitioners and educators can help communities imagine more robust and care-driven realities.
The final publication, "ReConnect," of the 2022 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "After the Pandemic: How Can Media Advance Equitable and Just Civic Futures?" During this program, discussions focused on how media organizations can aspire to a transformational future where they are able to care for their communities, help communities imagine alternative futures, and cultivate greater abilities for communities to participate meaningfully in media and daily life.
The final publication, "ReBuild," of the 2019 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "The Cost of Disbelief: Fracturing Societies and the Erosion of Trust." Participants of this program responded to the challenge of digital media environments becoming more divisive by bringing together emerging media makers and storytellers to create speculative futures focused on media infrastructures that can renew trust, re-imagine community engagement, and inspire new norms for participation in daily life.
The final publication, "Persist" of the 2018 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "Re-Imagining Journalism: News and Storytelling in an Age of Distrust." As trust in media organizations continues to decline amidst cries of fake news, this program analyzed the fast-moving media landscape and experimented with new approaches to reporting and storytelling that combine rigor and engagement to combat the age of distrust.
The final publication, "Reaction," of the 2017 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "Voices Against Extremism: Media Responses to Global Populism." This program focused on the topic of global populism and explored the construction, production, and dissemination of populist narratives, how such narratives emerge and are perpetuated in digital and mainstream media spaces, and how civic media, including journalism, advocacy, and civic voice can respond in dynamic ways.
The final publication, "Move," of the 2016 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change centered around the theme "Migration, Media & Global Uncertainty." Participants of this program explored the role of media literacy in engaging citizens, journalists, governmental bodies, and capacity organizations in cross-cultural dialogue about migration and its portrayal in contemporary digital culture.