COMMENCEMENT: During a 3-month-long trip across Southeast Asia, she is finishing up her last class as she prepares to graduate from the Digital Media Management online master’s program.
A USC analysis finds that hate is up, hateful content is more hateful and there’s been no meaningful change in the quantity of bots since Elon Musk purchased the platform in October.
The fund aims to provide permanent financial support for the study of ethics in media and technology at the school and will support a new course on Digital Media Techniques of Entertainment and Fake News.
Samantha Ellman and Natalie Ikhrata’s podcast explains the impact and importance of urban planning.
Amid the buzz about generative AI tools like ChatGPT, USC forms research center with $10 million in seed money and influential experts from the fields of computer science, film, media, education and more.
The live discussions with USC scholars and other experts — launched early in the pandemic — have become hugely popular.
The new show, The Circuit, will highlight weekly stories about notable engineering figures and feats in just a few minutes.
The USC-led study of more than 2,400 Facebook users suggests that platforms — more than individual users — have a larger role to play in stopping the spread of misinformation online.
Professors who host their own podcasts share their “must-listen” list for 2023 — seven podcasts with subjects including history, music and one of America’s most notorious madams.
A USC study is among the first to measure the link between social media posts and participation in the #BlackLivesMatter protests after the 2020 death of George Floyd.
For researchers who use Twitter as a primary source of data, recent changes to the platform and the exit of many users altogether could be debilitating.
Larissa Gurjão Pereira De Lima’s game teaches teams to tackle the most difficult problems facing organizations, governments and countries across the globe.
USC Viterbi student Anshay Saboo shows users the concert festival lineup of their dreams.
USC Shoah Foundation has redesigned its Visual History Archive, the world’s largest collection of primary source video testimonies from genocide survivors.
A USC-developed interactive mapping tool shows the location of every pharmacy in the United States — and which neighborhoods are “pharmacy deserts.”
USC Marshall research finds that consumer-posted photos can predict restaurant success.
Many people don’t even know what an NFT is (it’s a “non-fungible token”) or how to buy one. This Trojan startup aims to take care of that.
A global analysis of 29 studies led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC finds tobacco-related content on social media may recruit young users.
Kristina Thomas, member communications manager for YouTube TV, knew that graduate school was a crucial next step to becoming a thought leader in the digital media industry. USC was the right place for her.
The popular social payments app makes user profiles, payment notes and friend lists public by default. That’s laid the groundwork for millions of privacy leaks.
USC’s Communication and Journalism, Dramatic Arts, and Cinematic Arts schools join forces to help budding storytellers master the medium.
Christina Schucker loves her job in the auto industry but needed to learn more about audience strategy to move ahead. That’s where USC Annenberg’s online Master of Science in Digital Media Management program comes in.
USC Annenberg faculty, students and alumni are exploring the immense potential — and the often less-obvious pitfalls — presented by such technologies as algorithms, bots and machine learning.
Award-winning sportswriter and journalism professor Alan Abrahamson is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Olympic movement.