Susan Moeller
Susan Moeller is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an associate professor of media and international affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an affiliated faculty member at the School of Public Policy. Moeller is also the lead faculty member for the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, a program in Austria that each summer brings 60 students and a dozen faculty together from all over the world to jointly create Global Media Literacy course materials.
Prior to coming to Maryland, Moeller was a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Kennedy School. Moeller has also taught at Brandeis and Princeton, and was a Fulbright professor in Pakistan and Thailand.
Moeller has just published a new book Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit (Wiley-Blackwell), and is the author of several other books, including Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death (Routledge).
- 01/08/13 Numbers Are Never Enough (especially when dealing with Big Data)
- 11/12/12 How to Evaluate Bias and the Messages in Photos
- 12/21/11 #8: Media and Policy Makers Need to Connect to Online "Influentials"
- 04/06/11 What Kind of News Comes in 140 Characters or Facebook Status Updates? – New Global Study
- 05/13/10 Transparency in All Things: Even Research
- 04/26/10 Not the New York Times: Where College Students Get Their News
- 04/06/10 Innovation for the Development Sector (Hint: The iPad Probably Isn’t It)
- 11/18/09 You Know and Use Web 2.0 Tools. What About Those of Science 2.0?
- 01/12/09 Media Literacy: Teaching that the Open and Fair Exchange of Information Is Vital for Civil Society
- 12/17/08 Media Literacy: An Avenue to Broader Citizen Participation & Good Governance