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Erin Reilly is quoted in the Wall Street Journal for the work that the Lab is doing with PLAY! Tweens' Secret Lives Online addresses the conversation that media producers, educators and parents alike are having around the ways in which children use media to establish identities online.
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This month, students and faculty participated in an “Autonomous Objects” Workshop with Innovator-in-Residence Kati London. The session began by exploring what future cities might look like as more and more objects and architectures become networked and more human decision making processes get offloaded onto algorithms, sensors, and data. Using the principles of social, illegal, hyperlocal, and challenge-based design processes, participants considered alternative data sources and explored what other objects in our city can be given autonomous control, removed from human intervention.
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In an article, USC News highlights the Lab's 2012 Innovation Summit, held at the Campus Center on March 30.
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Anne Balsamo's digital arts project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, is featured in an article on Forbes. The idea is that you use the table not as a substitute for looking at the textile panels. You still look at the physical panels — they’re richer than any digital experience. But what our table will allow you to do is search for a particular one. And also get a sense of the scale,” she said.
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Henry Jenkins, lab Chief Advisor and Senior Research Fellow, is profiled on the Daily Edventures blog, where he talks about PLAY!, an ongoing lab project on participatory cultures
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In an article titled, "Innovation Lab: How to Create An American Renaissance," Lori Kozlowski from Forbes highlights the collaborative nature of the Lab and how focusing on transmedia and collaboration opens new doors to the future. Lab Director Jon Taplin says,"America is an information society. We make things that are made out of bits. The very nature of innovation is that we always go further. Like an iPhone app, it must constantly be upgraded. Here, we ask: How do you create an innovation culture, where you get into students’ bones, so they truly begin to think differently?”
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Jeff Sonderman recognizes the Innovation Lab’s Senti-meter in a story about new organizations that are “pressing a new frontier of technology in 2012.”
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Dr. Sarah Kenderdine from the City University of Hong Kong will present material about the recently created immersive interactive called: Pure Land: Inside the Magao Grottoes at Dunhuang that uses a 360-degree stereographic system. Her presentation will examine new paradigms for articulating and enlivening archives as embodied museum experiences.
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Don’t miss the opportunity to meet and network with Kati London, game developer and executive producer for Zynga in New York: London, named one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, will discuss her work at the intersection of games, networked data, and participatory culture, starting Thursday, March 29. RSVP for these outstanding sessions with this year’s USC Annenberg Innovator-in-Residence.
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The Lab's tech manager Dale Macdonald and senior research fellow Anne Balsamo will be speaking at the University of Iowa's Digital Studio for Public Humanities tech discussion.
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IBM Hiring Spring Graduates
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IBM Software Group is hiring spring University graduates! We are looking for college students with a strong background in computer science who are interested in a software development role, technical support role, or client facing role working on technical software projects. To apply, submit your resume ASAP to diversityrecuiting@us.ibm.com. For more information, click here.
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The Lab will be hosting Tinker & Talk Thursdays, starting this evening, a free monthly event that brings together geeks and students to share projects, solve technical problems and brainstorm creative uses for technology.
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Fred Goldring writes about the political "hunger game" on the Huffington Post.
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Congratulations to all of the teams who participated in the 2011-2012 CRUNCH Student Design Challenge. After much deliberation, the judges have selected the winning teams. And the winners are.....
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The Innovation Lab's children and media research team is excited to share this statement on tech and media tools for kids in early childhood programs, which was released today by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center.
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The Lab's Chief Advisor & senior research fellow Henry Jenkins will share expertise with the Orange teams, challenging them on various projects. This partnership will progress analysis and experimentation in an area of activity that is destined to step up from being a trend to acting as a powerful lever.
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WaPoLabs' Greg Barber shares highlights from his recent Innovation Lab visit. During their time at the Lab, Barber and colleague, Elizabeth Schwartz, discussed journalism's technological frontier with Annenberg students and faculty.
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Lab research fellow, Seth Shapiro, questions the validity of 5 popular theories on the death of cable TV.
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A new student group-WE HACK SC-is looking for new design members.
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Using advances in analytics and natural language processing, the Senti-Meter enabled us to analyze millions of daily public comments via Twitter, comparing volume and even more importantly assessing the tone. The project team explains how we did it in this video.
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The Chronicle's blog, Wired Campus, writes about our Oscar Sentimeter's most recent predictions.
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Based on our twitter sentiment analysis, we predict an upset for 'Midnight in Paris' at the Oscar Awards. Forbes' Dorothy Pomerantz reports.
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Innovation Lab Director Jon Taplin recently participated in the University of Colorado Law School's Digital Broadband Migration Conference, which aimed to evaluate intellectual property and competition policy on the Internet.
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On March 1, Washington Post Labs will fuel a discussion about innovation and the news industry, don't miss out!
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Check out Meryl Alper's reflection on the iKids and Kidscreen Summit 2012 on the Cooney Center blog!
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Innovation Lab senior research fellow Gabriel Kahn will lead a Director's Forum at Annenberg featuring many researchers who work closely with the Lab.
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Check out this article from the LA.Streets Blog on a woman's experience cycling through local projects and taking photos as part of a Lab-supported community mapping tour.
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Movie goers on Twitter prefer "Harry Potter" over "Hugo" and tweet more favorably about Glen Close than Meryl Streep. Check out the the latest views on Hollywood's award season with our interactive Oscar Senti-meter graph.
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The Lab and IBM have been using our Twitter sentiment tools to analyze millions of tweets about the Giants' Eli Manning and the Patriots' Tom Brady to determine the public's favorite quarterback. The results?
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Welcome to the Oscar Senti-meter — a tool developed by the Innovation Lab, IBM and the L.A. Times to analyze opinions about the Academy Awards race shared in millions of public messages on Twitter. This project is a continuation of the Lab's developments in big data and sentiment analysis.
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As part of its ongoing relationship with CicLAvia, the Annenberg Innovation Lab supported a cycling event last Sunday which encouraged cyclists to take photos and recordings for a 'crowd-sourced' map of their route from Augustus Hawkins Natural Park in South L.A.'s Central-Alameda neighborhood to the Watts Tower. The LA Times covered the groundbreaking event.
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Join Annenberg School of Journalism Director, Geneva Olverholser, for a discussion with the author of "The Case for Open Journalism Now: A new framework for informing communities" and former executive-in-residence, Melanie Sill. The Lab recently published this provoking online discussion paper, and now you'll have a chance to hear her speak next week! Don't miss it!
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Some stories aren’t well-suited to linear narrative. Some issues aren’t best explained from a single perspective. So how do you take the deep knowledge of specialists and find ways to stir it together with a broader community in which there is hidden expertise? ArtsJournal will bring together prominent arts administrators, artists, curators, and journalists....
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Melanie Sill describes journalism as a "discipline of action". She delves into how she began practicing open journalism and gives her thoughts on "The Case for Open Journalism" in this Poynter article.
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The Lab is now sponsoring Trojan Hack: a 24-hour hackathon where university students come together to represent their schools and see who's the best! It's USC vs. UCLA, you don't want to miss it so sign up soon!
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In late 2011, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop began a new collaborative relationship with the Innovation Lab. The Center's most recent fellow, Becky Herr Stephenson, details some of the exciting new projects that she will be working on with the Lab over the next year.
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"The Case for Open Journalism Now," a project created by Melanie Sill (pictured left) and developed at the Annenberg Innovation Lab, presents an argument for more participatory journalism practices. Sill highlights the 5 main principles of Open Journalism in a recent blog post on PBS MediaShift. "I'm not a middle-of-the-roader and wasn't aiming for a compromise position," she says. "Instead, I sought to identify and propel a culture shift that might build a healthier relationship among those who produce journalism and others who consume news and information."
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The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The program is targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism.
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The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs program will fund U.S.-based individuals who have original ideas for new web sites, mobile news services, or other entrepreneurial initiatives that offer interactive opportunities to engage, inspire, and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest.
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Innovation Lab chief advisor, Henry Jenkins, discussed the shifting relations between media producers and their audiences at the recent Futures of Entertainment conference (FoE5). Watch the full panel video.
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Missed our Young Digital Entrepreneurs Panel? Or simply want to revisit this lively discussion about the keys to success in the digital world? We've got you covered. The full event video is now available.
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As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum focused on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro and announced the Innovation Lab's partnership with some of Brazil's foremost industry players.
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Ten students and three alumni from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism will be selected to participate in the first X Prize Foundation Visioneering Day at USC, which will take place on January 27, 2012. The X Prize Foundation is a grant organization that challenges private teams to find solutions to global issues, providing multimillion-dollar awards as an incentive. Visioneering Day is a day of activities and brainstorming designed to spark ideas that will be developed into an X PRIZE to incentivize innovations that address issues of global health. We're currently accepting applications from interested students and alumni.
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Bet you never thought social media played an important role in baseball. Well, it does. With today's technologically savvy individuals, social media is just as important to the game as keeping score, downing a couple beers or enjoying your favorite Dodger dog. AIL is partnering with IBM to explore these new social tools and the unrestricted research they provide on fan's experiences and perspectives. Using advanced technology, the partnership aims to unveil the hidden feelings behind Twitterverse around this year's #postseason, and many other baseball trends. Fast Company's expert blog covers the innovative collaboration.
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What would it mean to take culture seriously in the design of innovative technologies? Anne Balsamo, Director of Emergent Technologies
and Culture at AIL addresses this question in her new transmedia book,
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke
University Press). In her examination of three sites of the
technological imagination (the industrial R&D center, the
science-technology museum, and the research university) illustrates how
the process of technological innovation produces not only new devices
and applications, but also sets in place the foundation for the creation
of cultures in the future.
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AIL officially opened its doors to the USC community at an Open House event the afternoon of August 23, 2011. The event featured demos of the Lab's most recent and upcoming projects. Provost Elizabeth Garrett provided remarks to a full house in the Annenberg West Lobby. She noted the Lab's unique approach to working at the intersection of technological innovations and analytical work, leading to social change, new business models, ideas and understandings. Congratulations to Dean Wilson, Jonathan Taplin, Erin Reilly and the entire faculty and staff who have worked so hard to bring this lab to reality. See Daily Trojan coverage.
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Variety's Peter Bart discusses the new algorithms driving film marketers...
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USC launches Twitter movie box office predictor
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What's the buzz on big movies opening this summer?
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Having just presented at The Access to Knowledge for Development Center's (A2K4D) second annual workshop at AUC's Tahrir Campus, AIL's Laila Shereen Sakr (aka VJ Um Amel) and R-Shief are generating a lot of interest....
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See AIL's Jonathan Taplin on Nightline, explaining how we're using IBM software to look at public sentiment regarding summer blockbuster movie releases!
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IBM's Building a Smarter Planet blog notes AIL's innovations in "Event-Driven Analytics"
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Read about four mobile news solutions developed for local news organizations by this year's News Idea Incubator Fellows.
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Facebook and Twitter experts expect “Hangover II” to blow away the competition this weekend. “Can it do $100 million?” Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC, asked rhetorically. “Yes, $100 million this weekend is easily doable.”
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iMAP PhD candidate and Innovation Lab researcher Laila Shereen Sakr expects to see more uprisings in the Middle East. Her source? Twitter.
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The Chairman of the Innovation Lab's Advisory Board had some inspirational words for this year's graduates at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Jon Friedman's Media Web profiles USC Annenberg and the Annenberg Innovation Lab under the leadership of Dean Ernest Wilson: Journalism + Innovation = Entrepreneurship.
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Check out the agenda, speakers and videos from our first annual conference, held April 1, 2011. Check back here as we continue to post more after the event!
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In the company of Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, and Susan Crawford (among others), USC's own /Henry Jenkins has been named one of "the top ten minds whose ideas are helping to shape our future" by Prospect Magazine, who cite Jenkins as "perhaps the world’s most influential and radical scholar" addressing issues of culture and education in the digital world through Project New Media Literacies.
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Congratulations to François Bar and Sasha Costanza-Chock who have received one of the United Nations World Summit Awards for Mobile Content and Apps, in the "m-Inclusion & Empowerment" category!
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"While mobile telephony is a global network, the best content comes from producers developing very local content. India and US producers are winning 4 awards each in the 8 categories of the WSA-mobile. Russia and Germany score high in content quality with 3 winners each. More than 420 products from close to 100 UN member states were entered in the 2010 contest."
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