[ecrea] CMDS Summer School on “Media Capture: The Relationship Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy”

Apply to the CMDS Summer School on “Media Capture: The Relationship 
Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy”

Arguably, the biggest challenge to media freedom and independent 
journalism today is the systemic political corruption in which private 
interests shape the decision-making process in state bodies and 
institutions. Increasingly, a model of captive, politically 
instrumentalized news media financed by owners, corporations, social and 
political groups, or governments, is becoming dominant in most parts of 
the world. This has severe consequences on independent media and journalism.

The aim of the 2017 summer course of the Center for Media, Data and 
Society https://cmds.ceu.edu/ at the School of Public Policy of Central 
European University https://www.ceu.edu/  to be held**26 June - 7 July, 
2017 at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary is to provide 
participants (researchers, journalists, activists, media practitioners, 
policymakers, advocates) with in-depth understanding of the nature of 
these new power relations and how they influence media and journalism; 
and with advocacy training to help them play a role in campaigning for 
progressive media policy and laws in their countries. Participants will 
come away with a deeper understanding of key literature, scholars, 
networks, and research projects related to state capture and media 
power, of which will be of use to them in their scholarship and applied 
work back home.

Application deadline: March 31, 2017

Financial aid is available.

Further information and details on the application can be found here: 
https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/media-2017

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