Tech Can Push Us Apart, but These Games and VR Build Empathy
Meet the digital creators who are using tech to make us feel a little more human.
Creating Video Games for Social Good
Video games can influence society for the better, and these USC game creators are trying to do just that.
Five Trailblazing Interactive Games that Started as USC Student Projects
These titles garnered awards and industry attention — several before their creators even graduated from USC.
USC Annenberg dean has advice for aspiring journalists: Get used to change
Willow Bay notes that the shifting media landscape means journalists — and USC’s communications school — need to adapt and be flexible.
Minecraft game jam looks at USC — 100 years from now
An overnight event gives Trojans the chance to build a new world — the University Park Campus of 2117.
The Mixed Reality Studio is the Newest “Virtual Reality Factory” at USC
The groundbreaking lab at USC School of Cinematic Arts will test the latest virtual reality technology.
Digital Technology Ensures the Lessons of the Holocaust are Never Lost
The USC Shoah Foundation painstakingly guards the last remaining voices of the survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.
Game on: Demo Day shows progress, promise of USC students
Biannual event allows teams to meet potential employers and demonstrate their works.
Bringing diversity to gaming, one class at a time
As games get more sophisticated, they include other perspectives, including those of women and the queer community.
Pry re-imagines the e-book
Co-creator explores a story that lives off the page with touch-screen gestures linked to the narrative.
USC-spawned platform enables digital publishers to go beyond the book
The online publishing tool Scalar finds favor with authors and university presses.
Interactive media master’s degree students show and tell
On their way to their Master of Fine Arts degrees, Interactive Media & Games Division students combine design, art and technology.
Tracy Fullerton named director of USC Games
The longtime game designer and USC leader is the ‘perfect choice’ to oversee the unit, Dean Daley says.
Executives examine entertainment’s evolution
Industry experts discuss the evolving distribution, marketing and consumption of entertainment at a conference hosted by USC Marshall.
Media Arts professor awarded for digital scholarship
“I have been fortunate to be at USC during a very exciting time in the evolution of digital scholarship,” Steve Anderson said.
Media Arts professor awarded for advancing digital scholarship
“I have been fortunate to be at USC during a very exciting time in the evolution of digital scholarship,” Steve Anderson said.
USC center releases global Internet report
The Center for the Digital Future has released the fifth edition of the World Internet Project Report.
Video game provides lift for wheelchair users
For individuals who rely on self-propelled wheelchairs, upper body injuries can be catastrophic.
‘Hunger in LA’ makes its mark at Sundance
In Nonny de la Peña’s immersive journalism piece “Hunger in Los Angeles,” the participants experience a dramatic incident at a local food bank, where a man collapses in line while awaiting his turn.