Faculty

François Bar

François Bar is Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. He serves on the Annenberg Innovation Lab research council and is a steering committee member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. His research and teaching explore the social and economic impacts of information technologies, with a specific focus on telecommunication…

Hernán Galperin, Director

Hernán Galperin (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, where he is also Director of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. Prof. Galperin is an internationally recognized expert on Internet policy and digital inequality. His research uses surveys, field…

Colin Maclay

Colin M. Maclay currently serves as Research Professor and Executive Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC. Situated at the intersections of disciplines, sectors and communities, the Lab takes a think + do approach to exploring relationships among media, technology, culture and society. Colin has long been motivated to understand how radical changes in…

Jonathan Aronson, Founding Director

Jonathan Aronson is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, as well as Professor of International Relations at USC. Professor Aronson writes on issues related to international communication policy, globalization and international trade and trade negotiations. His current research focuses on ways in which communication and…

Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. He is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Sociology, in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and in the…

Marlon Twyman II

USC Annenberg Assistant Professor of Communication Marlon Twyman is a quantitative social scientist specializing in advanced computational and statistical methods, with a particular focus on social network analysis. By merging perspectives from social networks, organizational behavior and computational social science, his research program focuses on how teams, online communities and organizations form and interact in the digital…

Su Jung Kim

Su Jung Kim is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is also the Co-Founder of the CAKE (Computational Advertising Knowledge Exchange) group, a community of scholars and practitioners interested in applying computational approaches to advertising research. She is interested in how audience behavior takes shape in the digital media…