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Doctoral student Hoan Nguyen awarded top student paper
Congratulations to our own Hoan Nguyen who has won the student paper prize awarded by the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) for her paper “ICTs Use for Mitigating Social Exclusion in the Lives of Homeless Women”. The paper, which is part of the Connected Skid Row Project, examines the role digital technology plays in countering…
Read MoreMapping the distance learning gap in CA
We are pleased to announce the release of a new Connected Communities and Inclusive Growth (CCIG) report that examines the ability of K-12 students in California to engage in distance learning based on the availability of an internet-connected computer at home. This follows the release of previous report that focused on families in Los Angeles…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and the Distance Learning Gap
As schools across the country transition to distance learning due to the COVID-19 crisis, a new Connected Communities and Inclusive Growth (CCIG) report documents the extent of the distance learning gap in Los Angeles County. The distance learning gap refers to the gap between students living in households with high-speed Internet and a desktop or…
Read MoreRachel Moran Accepts a Postdoc Fellowship
Congrats to our very own Rachel Moran for accepting a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Knight Foundation at the University of Washington! She will be researching at the Center for an Informed Public. For more information about the Center, please see the following link: https://www.cip.uw.edu/. We wish you all the best Rachel!
Read MoreAll Events at USC Cancelled
Hello everyone, We at ARNIC hope that you are staying safe and healthy during this stressful time. As many of you have already heard, USC has decided to move courses online for the rest of the semester and also decided to suspend all on-campus events as a result of the surge in COVID-19 cases in…
Read MoreThoughts on Steven Weber’s Presentation
By Juliana Dias On Wednesday, February 12th, Steven Weber joined our ARNIC seminar. Steven, a 2020 Berggruen fellow, is a professor in the School of Information and Dept. of Political Science, UC Berkeley. He conducted the seminar in order to talk about his new project which is currently under development: “How to make Machine Translation…
Read MoreARNIC Member Hoan Nguyen Presents at PTC’20
Hoan Nguyen, ARNIC Member, and USC Annenberg Doctoral Student presented her paper entitled Splintering Communications: The Reality of Digital Practices Among People Experiencing Homelessness in an Urban Ghetto at the PTC’20: Vision 2020 and Beyond conference organized by the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) in Honolulu from January 19-22. She also received the Yale M. Braunstein…
Read MoreARNIC member Sunghan Ryu publishes new book Beauty of Crowdfunding
Congratulations to ARNIC member Sunghan Ryu on the recent publication of his book Beauty of Crowdfunding! Below is more information about the book as well as links to where you can purchase it. While the limitation of the traditional capital market with its definite inequality has been discussed extensively, crowdfunding is expected to resolve the…
Read MoreWho Gets Access to Fast Broadband in Los Angeles?
In this new Policy Brief from the Connected Cities and Inclusive Growth (CCIG) project, we probe for evidence that ISPs in Los Angeles County are neglecting investments in low-income areas and communities of color. The analysis is based on the most recent deployment data available for fixed residential services collected by the CPUC in combination with…
Read MoreARNIC Director Hernan Galperin Presents at TPRC
Associate Professor and ARNIC Director Hernan Galperin presented a paper at the 47th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) in Washington DC (Sep. 20-21, 2019). The paper is titled Who Gets Access to Fast Broadband? Evidence from Los Angeles County 2014-17, co-authored with doctoral students Thai Le and Kurt Daum, argues that competition between broadband providers and…
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