Robert Hernandez uses cutting-edge tech to teach the next generation of immersive storytellers
The medium is the message, as the words of media theorist Marshall McLuhan have echoed for several generations of communications students, and no media in the last several years has had quite the potential to upend the message like 360-degree video and virtual reality.
Last month,...
Focusing on identity through media literacy
Dillan Barmache, a high-school senior, visited USC Annenberg along with his teacher, Mara Gellman, and fellow students from Canoga Park High School. There, they met with Alison Trope to share the media work they were doing in their honors English class.
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As the media industry copes with fake news, journalists still relish the chance to tell stories that matter.
Illustration by The Heads of State
One weekend last December, 28-year old Edgar Maddison Welch, a father of two, drove from his home in North Carolina to Washington, D.C. on a mission to protect kids.
In search of what he had heard were secret underground...
Hufschmid Chair pioneered the method of research, a subset of digital anthropology
It isn't often students get a front-row seat to an academic first. But this past spring, 11 USC Annenberg master’s students participated in the world premiere of “Netnography,” the course. Although netnography is widely used in classroom exercises, this was the first time anyone taught a course...
USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun has been named a recipient of the Berlin Prize, a semester-long fellowship in Berlin awarded annually to top-tier scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States.
Kun’s class of 22 recipients, announced by the American Academy in Berlin on May 10,...
Joe Saltzman , professor of journalism and communication at USC Annenberg, has received the 2017 Outstanding Service Award from the USC Association of Trojan Leagues.
As part of their mission to foster and promote the interest of the university, the association has honored one outstanding USC professor with the...
Fred Cook has had a lot of jobs.
He’s been a cabin boy on a Norwegian ship, cleaning up after roughly 50 sailors — their beds often covered in grease from the engine room.
He was a doorman at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, memorizing guests names off their luggage tags to get extra tips.
He was a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District...
This story originally published in USC News .
By Joanna Clay
Standing on the sand at Venice Beach, Soraya Simi knew her best view of her subject – a stand-up paddleboarder – would be from the water.
So she grabbed her wetsuit, fins and GoPro and jumped in.
This is the...