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KQED features new learning model developed by Henry Jenkins and Erin Reilly

By Alex Reed Student Writer KQED’s “MindShift” featured a story about research being done by USC Annenberg’s Henry Jenkins and Erin Reilly in collaboration with the Annenberg Innovation Lab to create a new teaching model that involves more participatory learning. … Continue reading

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LAist features new project mapping healthy food in South LA

By Alex Reed Student Writer The LAist featured a new project that maps out healthy food available in South LA. In taking a few exploratory bike rides and walks through the community, South LA children and teenagers compiled photos and … Continue reading

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USC Annnenberg Innovation Lab releases its second monthly Advertising Transparency Report

By Alex Reed Student Writer The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab recently released its second monthly Advertising Transparency Report. According to an article from Variety.com, the first report, reporting on all of 2012, showed that Google and Yahoo were among the … Continue reading

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USC Annenberg Innovation Lab a finalist for Innovating Innovation Challenge

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is one of 24 finalists for the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Innovating Innovation Challenge. “With the Innovating Innovation Challenge, we’re looking for examples and ideas that will help us how [to] build innovation into the woof and … Continue reading

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New York Times highlights Annenberg Innovation Lab’s fight against online piracy

The New York Times featured the Annenberg Innovation Lab and director Jonathan Taplin in a piece concerning online advertising and Internet piracy. The story focuses upon the report published earlier this month by the Innovation Lab that ranked ad networks, … Continue reading

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Dean Wilson outlines plans for USC Annenberg in PBS MediaShift Q-and-A

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III described the USC Annenberg School’s recent additions, impending growth, and plans for the future in an in-depth PBS MediaShift Q-and-A on Jan. 18 with Mark Glaser. “What I feel really good about is building on … Continue reading

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LA Times features Innovation Lab report linking Google, Yahoo to piracy websites

The Los Angeles Times featured a USC Annenberg Innovation Lab report about large companies that advertise on websites devoted to pirating music, TV shows and movies. The Jan. 2 article, which ran on the front page of the Business section, … Continue reading

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USC Annenberg Innovation Lab publishes new guides for developing participatory learning

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab has released three new reports that aim to serve as teaching and learning guides for K-12 teachers and administrators who want to develop more participatory learning approaches in classrooms. The guides share insights and lessons … Continue reading

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Innovation Lab’s scientific approach to determining sarcasm in Twitter analysis featured in Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal featured USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and its director, communication professor Jonathan Taplin, in an Oct. 30 article about “The Strange Science Of Translating Sarcasm Online.” The article’s author, Katherine Rosman, wrote that computer programming follows strict … Continue reading

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Annenberg Innovation Lab uses Twitter to chart public sentiment on elections

Following the first presidential debate of 2012, socalTECH.com, a site dedicated to the coverage of Southern California’s technology news, featured a discussion with Annenberg Innovation Lab Director Jonathan Taplin concerning the lab’s use of Twitter as an indicator of public sentiment in … Continue reading

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