Dr. Sangita Shresthova is Director of Research for USC Annenberg’s Civic Paths , a group she co-founded with Professor Henry Jenkins . In fact, Jenkins was a major factor in developing Shresthova’s career and...

On the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles, a group of professors at USC have created a collaborative project to examine the relationship between race, the arts, and how they collide to create and influence urban spaces in cities like LA.

RAP (Race, Arts, & Placemaking) is supported by a...

The oldest park in the city of Los Angeles will soon be getting a new look.

Pershing Square Renew was conceived in 2013 as a collaboration between city government, the LA community, and business leaders to revitalize and reimagine the park that sits in the center of Downtown LA. The international design competition was announced in the...

The word “hacker” might conjure up images of a keyboard criminal shutting down websites, raiding bank accounts, exposing diplomatic secrets, and stealing identities. But current writing from several Annenberg scholars reveals hacking and making to largely be creative, communal acts in which technology is used productively, rather than destructively.

The...

1959. The Cold War. In Cuba, Castro came to power. In Moscow, then-Vice President Nixon debated Soviet Premier Khrushchev in the "Kitchen Debate."

And that same year in China, African-American activist and writer W.E.B. DuBois met with Chairman Mao.

Six years later, African-American civil rights leader Robert F. Williams would move to China after leaving the U.S. as a political...

Like a game of telephone on steroids, rumors and hoaxes on Twitter travel as fast as a user can tap the little “retweet” arrows.

Sometimes online rumors are silly and ultimately inconsequential, like the recent hoax that had a former 90210 actress engaged to much-older comedian Jon Lovitz. But other times, rumors can have a real, tangible effect, such as those about vaccines causing...

What do quirky t-shirt designs--avocados riding a bicycle built for two, a cat astronaut, pages and pages of movie, TV, and pop culture references--have to do with how humans create networks with one another?

A grant from the National Science Foundation is allowing USC Annenberg Communication Professors...

Conversation is important to Professor Henry Jenkins .

He’s written and/or edited 17 books over the last twenty-five years, he’s a prolific blogger at Confessions of an Aca-Fan , he teaches at both USC Annenberg and the...