Upcoming Events
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 4/22 at 5:00PM PT led by Dr. Nicole P. Marwell titled: “A New Approach to Measuring Digital Redlining” About the Talk The term “digital redlining” is often used to refer to different aspects of the structural exclusion of certain groups from the benefits of the Internet. Internet…
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Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 4/15 at 5:00PM PT led by Lilian Coral titled: “Trump’s Tech Governance: Making Sense of the Administration’s First 100 Days“ About the Talk At a time when there is a slew of new information surrounding the administration’s quick and vast executive actions, the Open Technology Institute (OTI)…
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ICTD is dead—long live ICTD. After the experience of three years as founding director of an information and communication technology and development (ICTD) research institute within the United Nations, along with the many global challenges experienced within today’s cyberspace, Dr. Michael L. Best believes that the ICTD research community is undertaking a necessary reboot. A…
Read More »Monday, April 16, 2018 4-5:30 ASC (Annenberg School of Communication) Room 207 Sponsored by the Annenberg Network on International Communication https://arnicusc.org/ & USC Libraries Speakers: James J. Owens, The World is Just a Book Away is a children’s literacy non-profit organization based in Santa Monica, CA. Since 2008, WIJABA has established nearly 100 libraries, launched 2 mobile libraries (serving…
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ARNIC will be joined by Mizuko Ito at our lunchtime seminar series on March 20th. Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the…
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Next week Dr Myria Georgiou will be joining the ARNIC seminar. She will be giving a talk titled: Representing Others, representing Us: The “refugee crisis” in the European Press. Her presentation will map out the key parameters of media language that defined Europe’s “refugee crisis” during its 2015 peak. The discussion draws from a cross-national content…
Read More »ARNIC will have guest speaker ‘Ramesh Srinivasan’ on November 16th 2017. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments. He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world.…
Read More »Visiting scholar Ellen Helsper will be giving a talk October 12th, 2017, in ASC 225. Talk description: Digital inequalities theories focus on structural and individual factors to explain the links between social and digital inequalities. Research suggests the existence of vicious cycles where those who are better off in a traditional sense are able to take…
Read More »Talk Description: Our economic transactions are increasingly mediated by platforms such as Amazon, Uber, Kickstarter, eBay and many others. These platforms claim to operate as neutral intermediaries between private parties. However, platform design choices can greatly affect outcomes. In a series of related studies, Prof. Hernan Galperin shows how discrimination operates in Freelancer.com, one of…
Read More »Thomas Hazlett, Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University and director of the Information Economy Project, will be giving an ARNIC guest lecture on September 28th. He talk about his book “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone” followed by…
Read More »Many ARNIC doctoral students and faculty members will be sharing their work at the annual International Communication Association Conference this year, held in San Diego, California. Please see below for a list of preconferences, presentations, and sessions at which they will be in attendance: Wednesday, May 24 (Preconferences) Hernan Galperin, PhD. Plenary session on…
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Jonathan Donner, Senior Director of Research at Caribou Digital, will join USC ARNIC to give a guest lecture, entitled “Happening Now: Encoding Participation in Global and Mobile Information Economies,” followed by Q&A. Lunch will be provided. His presentation will draw on several current projects, in Digital Financial Services, in Digital Identity, and in New Internet…
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