Innovation Lab senior research fellow Gabriel Kahn will lead an Annenberg Journalism Director's Forum event featuring a number of researchers who are working on projects at the Lab, including:
From Darfur is Dying to Sim City, the field of "impact" or "serious" games is on the rise. Panelists will discuss what it takes to build up a market for these games and offer strategies for developing and selling commercial products. They will also explore these games' tremendous potential for inspiring global change and bringing awareness to various issues, from education to public health. RSVP here..
Welcome to the Oscar Senti-meter — a tool developed by the L.A. Times, IBM and the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab to analyze opinions about the Academy Awards race shared in millions of public messages on Twitter.
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Join Annenberg director Geneva Olverholser for a discussion with the author of "The Case for Open Journalism Now: A new framework for informing communities" and former executive-in-residence, Melanie Sill. The Lab recently published this provoking online discussion paper, and now you'll have a chance to hear her speak next week! Don't miss it!
Some stories aren’t well-suited to linear narrative. Some issues aren’t best explained from a single perspective. So how do you take the deep knowledge of specialists and find ways to stir it together with a broader community in which there is hidden expertise? ArtsJournal will bring together prominent arts administrators, artists, curators, and journalists for a discussion on January 23-27.
Innovation Lab chief advisor, Henry Jenkins, discussed the shifting relations between media producers and their audiences at the recent Futures of Entertainment conference (FoE5).
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Event Date:
Friday, January 27, 2012
Event Time:
9am
Place:
USC Davidson Center
On Friday, January 27, 2012 the X Prize Foundation, a grant organization that funds teams working to solve global issues, will introduce the USC community to Visioneering Day – an event that brings world experts together to spark ideas that will be developed intro an X PRIZE.
Event Date:
Friday, November 11, 2011
Event Time:
N/A
Place:
MIT
Annenberg Innovation Lab Director, Jon Taplin, moderated the Futures of Nonfiction Storytelling panel at this year's Futures of Entertainment conference which took place on November 11 and 12 at MIT. Watch the panel video here.
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Event Date:
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Event Time:
4:30PM
Place:
AIL Lab (Annenberg West Wing, ASC 104)
Mixer for Very Innovative People (That's YOU!)
Every other Thursday, our V.I.P Happy Hour is the place to be for making connections with fellow innovators. Take a load off, play games, enjoy the music, share your ideas and introduce your project
Event Date:
Friday, November 11, 2011
Event Time:
12pm
Place:
MIT - Cambridge MA
As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment
conference, this Forum focused on the emergence of powerful new
production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de
Janeiro. What do these developments portend for the international flow
of media content? Listen to podcast.
Event Date:
Friday, April 01, 2011
Event Time:
N/A
Place:
Davidson Conference Center
Senior executives from some of the most innovative firms in America alongside one of our most important creative artists, T-Bone Burnett, explore some of the possible impediments to innovation in the coming years....
Event Date:
Friday, April 01, 2011
Event Time:
N/A
Place:
Davidson Conference Center
How can researchers, firms and governments use new tools to understand very large data sets created by millions of tweets and posts on Social Networks and blogs?
