Intercultural Journalism – Theory and Practice, Teaching Project Prof. Thomas A Bauer, Winter Term 2009/10

Perspective
European news media reporting on Africa is still full of stereotypes: Misery, poverty, hunger. People begging for charity dominate the discourse on Africa thus reducing motives of cooperation between Europe and Africa to development aid. The generalization of this attitude towards Africa prevents European institutions from building ccoperations on an equal, two-sided basis. Cooperations that expect African partners to fully participate, not to simply and passively receiving aid. A bias on real cooperation with respect to the competences of partners on both continents is needed. Read more »

Die nächste deScripto- Ausgabe, produziert als Kooperation von IPKW und SEEMO unter besonderer Beteiligung von Communication/Media-Studierenden der Singudunum University Belgrade erscheint Anfang Juni 09, widmet sich dem Schwerpunkt-Thema “Medienentwicklung in Serbien”

Statement of the editor:
“Serbia in the last years has become a significant example, maybe also a model for an active transition. The political way of and for change was not easy to be done but now has happened irrevocably. There are many areas where that move of change can be observed. One of those areas is media. Since media is not just a system of devices or of organization, but much more a social system of intermediation, it is a cultural, political, educational and economical platform of building a society.”