“Surveying the Digital Future” — the longest-running study that explores the views and behavior of Internet users and non-users — has been released by USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future.

When the popular television series “Game of Thrones” ended last month, fans bemoaned the long wait until the final season. Speculation pegs next summer as the earliest possibility. In the meantime, posts on the dragon Viserion’s blue flames, memes on the hookup of fictional characters Jon Snow and Daenerys and chatter about potential battle strategies indicate that there is plenty to ponder.

Findings explore the connection between negative senior portrayals on TV and their effect on mental and physical health

Contribution also will fund new debate programming and fellowships at USC Annenberg

New study examines depictions of computer science in TV and film content

Willow Bay, veteran broadcaster and digital communication leader, has been officially instated as dean of USC Annenberg and as the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication.

Brit Wigintton has been named the 2017–18 recipient of the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Fellowship, a program that supports the next generation of film critics. Wigintton begins her studies this fall in USC Annenberg’s master of arts journalism program, the foremost graduate degree of entertainment and culture storytellers.