Mark Latonero

Director of Research and Instruction

Mark Latonero is the Director of Research and Instruction at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.

Latonero investigates the impact of emerging media and technology on social change; from the impact of the internet on music, to social media and emergency management, to the role of technology in foreign policy.

He is an experienced instructor, teaching at USC Annenberg, both in Los Angeles and as the lead faculty for the school's London program, and at California State University, Fullerton, where he held a faculty appointment in CSUF's College of Communications. He has developed CCLP executive education programs with Hong Kong University's School of Continuing and Professional Education and the Kennerly Institute on Photojournalism.

Under a grant from the Annenberg Program on Online Communities, Latonero is researching the role of social media in monitoring and combating human trafficking.

He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from USC Annenberg and was a post-doctoral Research Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Latonero has published in Information, Communication & Society, Intermedia: Journal of the International Institute of Communications, and Communication Research and presents at the International Communication Association, Association of Internet Researchers, and Information Systems for Crisis Response and Emergency Management among others.

More about Mark Latonero's research can be found on his website and blog ICT for Humanity.

He can be reached at latonero@usc.edu.