Mobile devices are rewiring the way parents and teens connect with one another in countries across the globe. How is the near-universal presence of these devices affecting parent-teen relationships in the United Kingdom?
These were the key questions at a London event today where USC Annenberg and Common Sense Media announced the release of a...
Since the USC Annenberg media center opened in 2014, the 22,000-square-foot, glass-walled production hub has helped students create a flood of inspired multimedia content. With its recording studios, cameras, control rooms and green screens, the center seems to have everything an aspiring storyteller could want.
Now...
Media’s Gender Revolution: An honest conversation about women in journalism — reporting on sexual harassment, fighting for funding, and finding champions.
One year into the contemporary #MeToo movement, a panel of four women discussed what has changed for women — and what hasn’t. Featuring Dean Willow Bay; Cindi Leive, senior fellow at the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy...
Early next month, a group of 11 USC graduate students will host the first USC Annenberg graduate student conference. Called “ Critical Mediations ,” the two-day event, set for Oct. 4-5, is designed to advance cultural studies scholarship in the field of communication.
Organized around the theme “The Fire This Time: Afterlives of 1968,” this...
Johnny Flores’ journey to USC Annenberg started in the rural farmlands of the Coachella Valley, where his grandfather tilled the fields well into his 70s.
While the schools near his home were not well-funded, Flores ’19 had the opportunity to attend a prestigious high school several miles away. “That was a huge culture shock for me,” he said. “There’s a great divide between the haves...
Willow Bay notes that the shifting media landscape means journalists — and USC’s communications school — need to adapt and be flexible.
Even as today’s media industry faces unprecedented financial upheaval and fallout from “fake news,” USC’s efforts to educate the next generation of storytellers are only growing stronger.
At the USC Annenberg School for Communication and...
Once a shy kid held back by physical disability, Hawken Miller has flourished since becoming an active student at USC.
Growing up with a rare muscle disease, Hawken Miller often felt isolated. He couldn’t run around at recess, play sports or join friends on backpacking trips.
But when Miller ’19 arrived at USC over two years ago, his physical limitations didn’t prevent him...
New study finds inequality by gender and race/ethnicity for film reviewers across 3 years and 300 movies.
Everyone may be a critic, but when it comes to film reviewers, a new study reveals that the old adage doesn’t ring true.
The report , titled “Critic’s Choice II,” is the second in a series from...
