Social Justice Media Agency
Georg is a student of social and cultural anthropology and national economics at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In the Past he also worked on organic farms in Styria, Tyrol, and Lower Austria: and as a free-lance journalist; documentary film-maker; and speaker at fora, congresses, meetings, and academies in Austria and abroad.
He has worked for the human-rights organization Mexico Platform Austria, the coffee co-operative of Smaliyel, Mexico; Fairtrade Austria, an association that promotes fair trade with the countries of the Southern hemisphere; NosOtr@s, an association for intercultural co-operation; Südwind in Lower Austria; and CIEPAC Center for Economic and Political Research for Community Action, Mexico.
Social Justice Media Agency
Millions of people in the world work for social change. Values based on human rights, environmental protection, autonomy, and justice are cultivated in day-to-day work. All around the globe, alternative blueprints for life are an answer to societal fragmentation, privatization, individualisation, and de-territorialization. At the same time, media monopolies promote socio-cultural, political, and commercial uniformity. What the media disseminate to their audiences is largely oriented towards economic exploitation and monetary possibilities. Issues of social justice are hardly ever presented in the news reports of media monopolies.
We follow the call for more democracy in audio-visual communication. We want to give those players in society who work for the causes of social justice an opportunity of documenting their work and projects by professional audio-visual means. Films, net streamings, trailers, video spots or visuals can convey their content, intentions, stories, messages, dreams, and commitment to a larger audience: forgotten and marginalized people will thus have a voice and a face.
Advanced communication technologies and strategic co-operation cut costs and give under-resourced projects access to the media world.
Specialists with multi-media training co-operate across disciplinary boundaries to open up the fields of development policy, video advocacy and restorative justice videos, expressive therapy for social change, video activism, visual social science, visual peace journalism, and charity to the target groups - social entrepreneurs, NGOs, grassroots movements, foundations, sociologists, mediators, therapists, law firms, courts, human rights organizations, journalists.
The long-range goal of the Social Justice Media Agency is to design an Internet TV programme - The Social Justice Media Programme - which will broadcast contributions from all over the world. Co-operation with alternative media centres in the Americas, Europe, and Africa has already started.
Georg is a student of social and cultural anthropology and national economics at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In the Past he also worked on organic farms in Styria, Tyrol, and Lower Austria: and as a free-lance journalist; documentary film-maker; and speaker at fora, congresses, meetings, and academies in Austria and abroad.
He has worked for the human-rights organization Mexico Platform Austria, the coffee co-operative of Smaliyel, Mexico; Fairtrade Austria, an association that promotes fair trade with the countries of the Southern hemisphere; NosOtr@s, an association for intercultural co-operation; Südwind in Lower Austria; and CIEPAC Center for Economic and Political Research for Community Action, Mexico.
Social Justice Media Agency
Millions of people in the world work for social change. Values based on human rights, environmental protection, autonomy, and justice are cultivated in day-to-day work. All around the globe, alternative blueprints for life are an answer to societal fragmentation, privatization, individualisation, and de-territorialization. At the same time, media monopolies promote socio-cultural, political, and commercial uniformity. What the media disseminate to their audiences is largely oriented towards economic exploitation and monetary possibilities. Issues of social justice are hardly ever presented in the news reports of media monopolies.
We follow the call for more democracy in audio-visual communication. We want to give those players in society who work for the causes of social justice an opportunity of documenting their work and projects by professional audio-visual means. Films, net streamings, trailers, video spots or visuals can convey their content, intentions, stories, messages, dreams, and commitment to a larger audience: forgotten and marginalized people will thus have a voice and a face.
Advanced communication technologies and strategic co-operation cut costs and give under-resourced projects access to the media world.
Specialists with multi-media training co-operate across disciplinary boundaries to open up the fields of development policy, video advocacy and restorative justice videos, expressive therapy for social change, video activism, visual social science, visual peace journalism, and charity to the target groups - social entrepreneurs, NGOs, grassroots movements, foundations, sociologists, mediators, therapists, law firms, courts, human rights organizations, journalists.
The long-range goal of the Social Justice Media Agency is to design an Internet TV programme - The Social Justice Media Programme - which will broadcast contributions from all over the world. Co-operation with alternative media centres in the Americas, Europe, and Africa has already started.
