Day to day, as we are approaching the end of this jam-packed program, we are thinking more and more about questions of how to make our unique opportunity as SUSI Scholars useful for our work and micro society we live…
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…
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…
To be digital, or not to be: Is this a question?
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…
How to Launch a Full-Fledged War Against ‘Fake News’ in 18 Countries at Once
The world has never been this way. Everyone has to battle the invisible army of coronavirus while also trying to guard against the darkness of “fake news.” It is difficult and challenging. It is at times like this we should…
Does Journalism Need Surgery?
The journalism teaching hospital The quest to save the journalism profession persists. The symptoms of its death abound; so do the theories about resuscitating it. Will it take a mere CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)? Many claim that technology and social media…