This was originally published on The Conversation and is republished here with permission.

As a kid growing up in Italy, I remember watching the American TV series “...

From his bustling home kitchen, chef Alfonso Martinez is cooking someone else’s recipe for a change — specifically, a recipe for black beans, frijoles de olla , submitted by a reader of the hyperlocal website L.A. TACO .

Martinez, owner of Poncho’s Tlayudas, explains, as an audience watches him work over Facebook Live, that he began stewing the...

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A masked Medusa turns the coronavirus into stone while rapper Cardi B yells, “Coronavirus!” A 16th-century Florentine duchess is transformed with the TikTok “party” filter and paired with Doja Cat’s “Boss Bitch” track. Nude Greco-Roman male sculptures are set to Todrick Hall’s “I Like Boys” — just in time for Pride festivities in June.

All of these TikTok posts came from the real-world...

A version of this story also appeared on USC News .

Amid the pandemic, a survey from USC and the California Emerging Technology Fund reveals the regional and financial inequities that fuel the state’s digital divide.

California has reached a digital milestone...

At a time when tackling the world’s biggest challenges demands ambitious collaborations, two of the preeminent schools for communication and media studies — the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication — have jointly...

Reflections about Russian soul and American reality.

The soft strum of a guitar resonates in my ears. Gusts of winter winds whistle through the mountains. My family, along with several other Russian families, huddle around the warmth of the cabin fireplace. Stars glisten through the windows. The fire crackles.

My earliest musical memories come from childhood camping and ski...

Emilio Ferrara has become a groundbreaking scholar at the intersection of data science, communications and politics. During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Ferrara’s analysis showed how automated bots were shaping political debates on social media — research that was later cited in federal investigations into Russian...