A home away from home On June 2, 18 scholars who were invited to participate in the 2024 SUSI Scholars Program entered the airspace of the United States from all over the world. After transferring from San Francisco, Houston, Detroit,…
Teaching Communication in the 21st Century
Teaching communication in the 21st century requires changing our minds, our budgets and of course our universities. Students aspire to be successful in the labor market for the next 40 years with new knowledge and skills. A step in that…
Media Research and Media Education in the Global South: Comparative Studies and Joint Online Courses by SUSI ’23 Scholars
For the SUSI Scholars, June 16 was a day for working on research projects and curricular agendas. Every scholar presented their research project and curricular agenda proposals and pitches. Some scholars have not yet made up their minds about the…
Dreams & Lights We See for Freedom & Journalism in Room 444
The morning of July 5, 2023, was different for 18 of us. As we opened our eyelids, we did not find our loved ones around us. We did not even find ourselves at our very own places. We were already…
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…
A Reactionary Wind Is Blowing Almost Everywhere: What is the Role for Media Educators?
In June, event marketing software platforms were used to market events in various national settings, resulting in international media coverage and a shift towards conservative beliefs. Starting in the United States, where the Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe v.…
Every Profession Has Its Own Struggle
Today I learned one important thing through the SUSI program: every opportunity that comes along brings its own consequences and struggles. After two weeks of attending classes and activities with experts in their fields, I believe they are also still…
Full Throttle
It was an energetic start to the fourth day of the SUSI program on Thursday. And I am not yet talking about the classes. The thing is: Argentinian scholar Soledad finally acquired a thermos and was able to drink mate…
Layered Mysteries & a Phoenix-Inspired Future
Phoenix is a city of mysterious aura. In mythology, Phoenix symbolizes renewal as well as the sun. As an anthropologist, I was always fascinated by the imaginary representations and the construction of realities. What journalists do is give meaning and…
Media and Journalism : Professionalism, Pandemics and technology
Since the global pandemic hit the world at the earlier of 2020, every single aspect of life has been radically changed. In-person class switched to virtual. Unfortunately, not everything could be easily converted to virtual in learning about media and…