A masked Medusa turns the coronavirus into stone while rapper Cardi B yells, “Coronavirus!” A 16th-century Florentine duchess is transformed with the TikTok “party” filter and paired with Doja Cat’s “Boss Bitch” track. Nude Greco-Roman male sculptures are set to Todrick Hall’s “I Like Boys” — just in time for Pride festivities in June.
All of these TikTok posts came from the real-world...
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Amid the pandemic, a survey from USC and the California Emerging Technology Fund reveals the regional and financial inequities that fuel the state’s digital divide.
California has reached a digital milestone...
At a time when tackling the world’s biggest challenges demands ambitious collaborations, two of the preeminent schools for communication and media studies — the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication — have jointly...
Reflections about Russian soul and American reality.
The soft strum of a guitar resonates in my ears. Gusts of winter winds whistle through the mountains. My family, along with several other Russian families, huddle around the warmth of the cabin fireplace. Stars glisten through the windows. The fire crackles.
My earliest musical memories come from childhood camping and ski...
Emilio Ferrara has become a groundbreaking scholar at the intersection of data science, communications and politics. During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Ferrara’s analysis showed how automated bots were shaping political debates on social media — research that was later cited in federal investigations into Russian...
Kate Crawford, one of the world’s foremost experts on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the author of Atlas of AI , is joining USC Annenberg to advance critical research on the role of justice and power in socio-technical systems.
In her two decades as a scholar of science and technology, Crawford has focused her groundbreaking work on...
As the child of refugees from Vietnam, Vanessa “Vanni” Le held two very important jobs for most of her youth: interpreter and advocate for her parents. “There are people out there who would judge my parents’ intelligence based on the way they speak English,” said Le, who was born in Orange County, California and moved to Tampa, Florida when she was 7. "It was really frustrating to see them...
Arianne Edmonds is a 5th generation Angeleno and founder of the J.L. Edmonds Project, an initiative dedicated to preserving the legacy of The Liberator newspaper, one of Los Angeles’ earliest newspapers, and Black Angeleno history and culture.
As one of the recipients of the 2020–’21 Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellowship, Edmonds has been able to “find her tribe.” The...
