When it came time for Quentin Schaffer to attend high school, his parents opted to send him to a boarding school a few hours away from his Connecticut home. A self-admitted scrawny kid, Schaffer was bullied and decided to write a book about the experience. When his tormentors happened to find the pages, they tore them up, warning him to never write about them again. “I was amazed that my story...
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New habits developed during lockdown are likely to continue, a USC study finds, which means less driving to work or medical appointments. That said, access to these opportunities still varies by race and income.
Though...
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After 15 years of studying artificial intelligence, Kate Crawford knew that it had many hidden human and environmental costs. But she didn’t realize the extent of those costs until she set out to trace the full life cycle of a single AI consumer product: the Amazon Echo.
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The acceleration of worldwide mobile internet access has made digital media indispensable to commerce, culture and human connection. Digital media platforms and content are driving growth across industries, with sectors such as streaming video, music, games and online publishing experiencing an unprecedented increase in...
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As a kid growing up in Italy, I remember watching the American TV series “...
From his bustling home kitchen, chef Alfonso Martinez is cooking someone else’s recipe for a change — specifically, a recipe for black beans, frijoles de olla , submitted by a reader of the hyperlocal website L.A. TACO .
Martinez, owner of Poncho’s Tlayudas, explains, as an audience watches him work over Facebook Live, that he began stewing the...
With registration for the Fall 2021 semester running from March 29–April 16 for continuing undergraduate students, we’ve assembled a selection of courses to explore across communication, journalism, public diplomacy and public relations.
COMM 315: Health Communication #20500R | Robin Stevens Mon./Wed...
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...
