Media Highlights
NBC Los Angeles reported on the new USC Polarization Index, which uses social media data to measure how far apart Americans are on top political issues.
Glimpse from the Globe spoke with Clayton Dube of the USC U.S.-China Institute about the legacy of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “Ordinary people saw a hypermodern, organized, successful Olympics," he said. "That had a big impact on American views of China,” Dube said.
Rolling Stone cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showing that women are underrepresented in leadership positions in the music industry.
Slate interviewed Kate Crawford about the biases built into machine learning. When AI uses vast data sets to build a worldview, Crawford said, that process is "intensely complicated and highly political.”
Vulture cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the lack of representation for Muslim and Middle East/North African characters in top films.
Variety reported that the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative would receive an organizational award from Women In Animation for "its longtime research efforts into representation, characterization and inclusion in the entertainment industry."
Protocol spoke with Mike Ananny about transparency at tech firms. "It needs to be meaningful transparency," he said. "It can't just be transparency as theater or as performance."
Marlon Twyman II appeared as an expert guest and provided opinions on what the working environment will be like in an era where we need to co-exist with COVID-19.
In a profile of new Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr., the Associated Press cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showing low percentages of women as music producers and engineers.
In a profile of actress Rita Moreno, Elle cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative into the low number of Latinos in producer roles for top Hollywood films.
Undark quoted Kate Crawford in an article about the many problems with the huge data sets required by artificial intelligence. “It really goes to the core of what supervised machine learning thinks it’s doing," she said.
The Dallas Morning News quoted Marc Ambinder on AT&T's agreement to carry the One America News Network, which Ambinder called "a reflection of AT&T's realization that right-wing eyeballs mean big money."