Faculty fellow Philip Seib named USC Annenberg Vice Dean

Faculty fellow Philip Seib has been named the Vice Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, effective July 1. In addition to his role as a Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and a Professor of International Relations, he also served as director of USC's Center on Public Diplomacy. Seib will use his 30 years of interdisciplinary teaching and research experience to develop more collaborations at Annenberg. "Among my goals is to make sure that there is more common ground shared by the School of Communication and School of Journalism – that there is a real……Continue Reading Faculty fellow Philip Seib named USC Annenberg Vice Dean

Latonero joins Data & Society’s inaugural class of fellows

Research director Mark Latonero has been named to the inaugural class of fellows at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York. Launched this year and led by pioneering scholar danah boyd, Data & Society aims to "advance the public's understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by a networked society." By hosting events, developing policy frameworks, and creating projects and publicly available research backed by interdisciplinary collaborations, Data & Society addresses social, ethical, legal, and policy issues affected by data-driven technology. The Institute's fellows will work on "a bunch of thorny and interesting data and society issues," writes boyd…….Continue Reading Latonero joins Data & Society’s inaugural class of fellows