Progress continues on our groundbreaking Third Space initiative, and I am pleased to announce that we’ll delve more deeply this Fall, at the first-ever Annenberg Forum. This conclave will unite thought leaders from business, digital media, academia and the communication field in the debut exploration of the Third Space. For those of you not yet familiar with what the Third Space is, please...
Augmented Reality Total Immersion is not just for gaming any more. Last fall, USC Annenberg Professor Robert Hernandez led a group of students through an immersive storytelling experiment that revealed nuances of the Los Angeles Public Library , while...
As of July 1, both schools at USC Annenberg entered a new era of leadership, as Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser became the director of the School of Communication, while online and broadcast journalist Willow Bay assumed directorship of the School of Journalism. USC Annenberg Dean...
USC Annenberg Professor Alan Abrahamson has covered a total of eight Summer and Winter Olympics throughout his journalism career, most recently the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
Abrahamson reported from Sochi for various outlets, including NBCOlympics.com, MSNBC and Today. He also fed a steady stream of updates and observations to his various social media platforms. In Sochi, Abrahamson...
Museums’ attention to their visitors reached a peak in the late 20th century with the new museology and the populist trend. The field of visitor studies continues strong, with museums still commissioning and conducting studies that provide detailed information on both physical and online visitor demographics, behavior patterns and affinities. Aside from the more traditional surveys and focus...
In the Annenberg Innovation Lab’s Edison Project , we argue that the media and entertainment industry is experiencing its biggest changes since Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope.
A big part of this is the “...
By Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay *
Teaching theory in media education is important, but teaching diversity in media is complicated. Despite almost-daily public criticism of content that draws on, and perpetuates, stereotypes and social discrimination, students still ask, “Why do we have to learn this?” Instructors may believe...
Immediacy meant two different things in a newsroom that had two processes of newswork ongoing at the same time. There was both the old world of immediacy, where breaking news meant tomorrow, and the new world of immediacy in online journalism, where immediacy meant “fresh” constant updates and where the homepage would not look the same in any way after six hours. The print news cycle...