Communication professor Josh Kun has been awarded the 2006 American Book Award for Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (University of California Press). The book explores the constantly evolving, endlessly hybrid musical culture that exists in American cities and how it has affected the history of racial...
Geoffrey Cowan , dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, has been named the inaugural holder of the newly-established Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership . The endowed chair is made possible by a major gift to USC from the Annenberg Foundation ...
USC Annenberg welcomes nearly 400 new faces as the Fall 2006 semester begins Monday, August 21 . Joining the roughly 200 incoming master's and doctoral students in communication , communication management , journalism ,...
Journalism professor Bill Celis has had three articles printed as part of a nationally syndicated Public Access Journalism series on battling drug and alcohol addiction in today’s society. The twenty-piece series was written over the course of a nine month period by five different journalists for PAJ. Celis’ articles focus on the...
Communication professor Douglas Thomas' politically focused computer game was featured in a New York Times article about the current expansion of the serious video game market. Since the creation of games like MTV's "Darfur is Dying" and USC Center on Public Diplomacy contest winner "Peacemaker," developers are focusing on games that role play complex real-world political and social conflicts...
Three USC Annenberg graduate students produced "Tale of Two Cities," for the July 21 edition of California Connected , a PBS program covering state and local issues. Laura Cavanaugh , Leo Juarez and Dave Eisenberg edited and produced the segment for their ...
Reporters and editors need to adopt a new perspective when covering science, according to journalism professor K.C. Cole . Prof. Cole is the author of "Weird Science: Why Editors Must Dare to be Dumb," in the July/August issue of the Columbia Journalism Review . In a time when solutions to global problems require an educated public, she...
Communication professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society Manuel Castells has been elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The British Academy is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social...