Once a shy kid held back by physical disability, Hawken Miller has flourished since becoming an active student at USC.

Why should we care about how journalists have been portrayed in media? What makes such an area worth studying? Those are the questions that Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and communication, answers in this short video. For the past 20 years, he has studied film, television and books and has created a worldwide resource on this subject. He explains why this subject is important and what the image of the journalist tells us about the health of U.S. democracy.

New study finds inequality by gender and race/ethnicity for film reviewers across 3 years and 300 movies.

What do wizards, explosions, and the world economy have in common? Dmitri Williams, associate professor of communication, researches games, online communities, technology, data and society. In this video, he details the social and economic impacts of online gaming.

Talking computers have been a science fiction staple since at least the days of the original Star Trek series. Now that digital assistants that respond to voice commands are firmly in the realm of science fact, a recent study suggests that this technology has some very enthusiastic users who might have watched the warp-driven adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise when they first aired in the 1960s.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Schoofs is joining the USC Annenberg School of Journalism to teach, train and inspire the next generation of high-impact digital journalists.

For Sophie-Marie Prime, when she watches the 80s teen movie Deadly Friend, exacerbation hits the moment Paul Conway blends the brains of his teenage crush with a robot. “Nobody has come up with this idea before,” he declares. What films like this perpetuate, she explains, is the Frankenstein trope or man’s inability to give birth and his subsequent appropriation of a women’s power to foster life. It also perpetuates objectification of women, she adds, because Conway is essentially turning a person into an object.

On May Day 2006 more than 500,000 people rallied in downtown Los Angeles for immigrant rights. Rogelio Alejandro Lopez, 19 at the time, attended the march with his mother and his younger sisters.