For Daniel Heimpel, the direction for his career came from a most unusual place: coaching lacrosse to inner-city high school students.

Courtney Cox, a PhD candidate at USC Annenberg researches the lived experiences of athletes and how global frameworks offer us new ways to think about the ways in which the exchange of culture, economy and politics can operate within this sphere.

On Sunday night, March 4, Frances McDormand ended her best actress Oscar acceptance speech with two words: Inclusion. Rider.

Intellect and empathy. Anna Deavere Smith credits her grandparents with instilling these qualities in her as a young girl growing up in Baltimore, Maryland. Now, as an actor and playwright, she relies on intellect and empathy to help her master myriad roles on stage and screen from hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus on Nurse Jackie to HBO’s Notes from the Field, in which she portrays 19 real-life individuals along the school-to-prison pipeline.

Robert Kozinets, professor of journalism, is netnography’s inventor. In the 1990s, Kozinets, the Hufschmid Chair of Strategic Public Relations and Business Communications coined the term — fusing Internet with ethnography — and developed the research method from the ground up. A subset of digital anthropology, netnography is a systematic, ethical approach to following the millions of bread crumbs scattered in plain view across social media platforms. This video explores how he came up with the term and what it means to us.

There are thousands of panel discussions held on college campuses each year, and most have a well-worn look and feel: chairs arranged on stage, occupied by academics. But when Alison Trope, USC Annenberg clinical professor of communication and director of undergraduate studies, was given the opportunity to curate a series of events on fashion, she began by turning the topic inside out, re-imagining the very presentation of scholarly thought.

USC Annenberg’s Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship, or M{2e}, program has tapped Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt as their visiting scholar for the 2017–19 academic years.

“Black girls.” “Latina girls.” “Asian girls.” Back in 2009, when Safiya Noble conducted a Google search using these keywords, the first page of results were invariably linked to pornography.