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Month: June 2021

The scholars prepare for a Zoom session with Dan Barr in Week 2

SUSI: My Wolf Pack that fights for journalism and democracy

Posted on: June 29, 2021 Last updated on: June 29, 2021 Written by: Veera Elina Järvenpää
“You should apply.” Those were the words my friend texted me in November 2019. “Think about it! You would spend four weeks in Alabama and a two weeks tour in the USA.” I clicked the link and replied, “Interested.” We…
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Change is constant

To be digital, or not to be: Is this a question?

Posted on: June 29, 2021 Last updated on: June 29, 2021 Written by: Emiljano Kaziaj
Meditation of a media scholar with no presence on social media  “You are not on social media? Are you for real?!“ As a lecturer coming from Albania, a country in which teaching still means ‘teaching theories’ most of the time, one…
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“Report! Report! Report! Just tell the truth.”

Posted on: June 28, 2021 Last updated on: June 28, 2021 Written by: Nick Zhang
Cronkite School Writer-in-Residence Terry Greene Sterling shared her stories on immigration issues with our SUSI scholars on Saturday morning (Phoenix time) June 26. Terry is a passionate writer. From her stories, we can feel how much she loves her job.…
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Gavel and law books

Getting to know what’s it like being a federal judge

Posted on: June 27, 2021 Last updated on: June 27, 2021 Written by: Euriahs Togar
SUSI Scholars’ privileged behind-the-curtains glimpse No country on earth is crime-free. This being true, the challenge facing leaders (globally) is fighting crime and maintaining law and order. The enormity of the challenge (e.g., crime rate and frequency, type, and so…
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Slide showing some important academic and professional associations

Paths and Bifurcations of the Academic and Professional Life

Posted on: June 25, 2021 Last updated on: June 25, 2021 Written by: Marcela Navarrete
There is more than just one way of being a great professional, academic and/or researcher, but some roads are more effective or convenient than others. There are no recipes, but there are people with professional and academic background who can…
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Diagram of the "Remove, Reduce, Inform" model of misinformation control used at Facebook

Challenging and changing media ecology

Posted on: June 23, 2021 Last updated on: June 23, 2021 Written by: Larissa Tristan
The theoretical metaphor of media ecology argues that media outlets are like species that live and interact in an ecosystem. As in any ecosystem, one change impacts the whole environment. For example, the crisis of the print and broadcast media,…
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Official Study of the United States Institutes logo

SUSI: Spend Unique Sphere Internationally

Posted on: June 23, 2021 Last updated on: June 23, 2021 Written by: Yasmeen Hanafy
When you look up the acronym, SUSI stands for Study of the United States Institutes. But for me it means to “Spend Unique Sphere Internationally,” and that is what I really feel towards the program abbreviation. Ever since I started applying and…
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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Opening Up the Discussion About Government, Press & Democracy

Posted on: June 22, 2021 Last updated on: June 22, 2021 Written by: Lusine Grigoryan
The second week of the program promises to be busier with tougher questions on media regulation, protection of freedom of speech and press, and the boundaries of that freedom in the social media age.  This Monday Daniel Barr, partner in…
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What Should Come First, Please: A Free Press or Prosperity?

Posted on: June 22, 2021 Last updated on: June 22, 2021 Written by: Abdulaziz Dino Gidreta
In Africa, governments hold an awkward sort of orientation that national economic developments should instigate freedom of expression, and so the idea of free press should be postponed. This has even denied room for the discussion of the subject itself,…
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Dr. Marianne Barrett

Just How Else Do You Unveil the Power of Technology in Pedagogy?

Posted on: June 20, 2021 Last updated on: June 22, 2021 Written by: Sharafa Dauda
It was day five at the 2021 Study of the U.S. Institute on Journalism, Technology, and Democracy hosted by the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University, for a cohort of 18 participants from across the world. The thrill of…
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SUSI Scholars Visit Phoenix Media Outlets, Delight in Official Reception

SUSI scholars had wonderful visit to major media houses in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. They also had a delightful reception in the evening. The team of scholars made their first site visit to KPNX-Channel 12 News at…
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Delightfully ‘Living’ the Cronkite School Teaching Hospital Model

Today, the 2021 cohort of the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) Capstone program in Journalism, Technology and Democracy hosted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, started with mixed reactions but ended with something…
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SUSI 2021: The Long-Awaited Reunion

September 25, 2022 marked the official launch of the in-person component of the 2021 Study of the US Institute on Journalism, Technology and Democracy program. Seventeen scholars from all over the world were finally able to meet each other face…
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We Can Do Better Together

Two days left for the SUSI for Scholars 2022 participants to return to their respective countries after five weeks of undergoing various activities at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism of Arizona State University. We started this final week with…
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A Borderless World?

“The world is flat.” This statement was made in the early 21st century by Thomas L. Friedman, who argued that globalization makes the world become a level playing field. The “flatteners” he suggested included the collapse of the Berlin Wall…
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