Good morning, everyone! And welcome to this very special ceremony as we dedicate Wallis Annenberg Hall.
This building stands at the heart of our university, and that is no coincidence. In the digital Age of Information … communication and journalism lie at the heart of human connectivity. Today, as we embrace the birth of a revolutionary building dedicated to advancing the fields of...
In 2010, Wallis Annenberg and I began a conversation. We reflected together on the importance of journalism and communication for the future of democracy in the United States of America. She described her deep commitment to the eternal values of openness, inclusion and transparency. She articulated a vision of these values — values that would inform the design and the purposes of any new home...
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...
Elisa Schreiber USC Annenberg. Elisa Schreiber has made a career out of working with technology start-ups that look 10 years into the future.
“The entrepreneurial urge runs deep in me,” she says.
Schreiber is one of twelve Third Space Founding Advisors. Schreiber was also a participant in Annenberg Forum 2014, which was about the Third Space. Today, from her perch at the...
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...
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 “...