The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanYesterday we spent some time at the Open Society Institute Archives, studying their Samizdat collection.
Samizdat, which means “self-published” in Russian, was the underground literature that was illegally printed and distributed in Soviet Russia and other Soviet controlled countries, including Hungary.
As you can imagine it was incredibly dangerous, so the printers continued to come up with [...]
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Since one of my main interests is the power of media (any media) to move people to action or make change, I thought this was an interesting story.
Have you heard of the Hungarian suicide song? In 1932, Rezso Seress wrote “Gloomy Sunday” - a song which would be implicated in over 100 cases of suicide.
THe [...]
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I arrived today in Budapest for a course called Media, Democratization and Civil Society. Its put on by UPenn Annenberg School of Communications and Central European University.
I’m really excited about it and will be posting about it (maybe live blogging a little, too) over the next couple of weeks.
There was a lot of required readings [...]
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