Play computer games, watch TV, become a YouTube star. For children and young people from socially disadvantaged families, media usually have a very important function for helping them cope with their daily lives and with identity formation. This is a central finding that the Salzburg communication scientist, Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, has drawn from the media socialization study, which has now been completed after 12 years.

On 28 June, the children’s town of Mini-Salzburg opened its doors for the 8th time in Salzburg’s Eisarena. Several hundred children aged 7 – 14 stormed “their” city, where they worked, studied and enjoyed their leisure time in the restaurant, the milk bar, the beauty salon, boating and much more with the self-earned money (= Saletti).

On 23 June, 2017, Verena Lorber received the Maria Matzner Prize for Women for her dissertation “Angeworben. GastarbeiterInnen in Österreich in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren”. The prize is awarded by the Association of Social Democratic Academics (BSA) Styria for dissertation projects with aspects of women’s policy, as well as high socio-political impact.