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Upcoming
Social Media Week 2010
As part of Social Media Week, the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) hosts a lecture by Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley titled "The Business and Culture of Social Media." Blakley's lecture will explore how social media has forever altered the media landscape, and how organizations must adapt to identify their new au...
September 20th, 2010
2010 Everett M. Rogers Colloquium
Martine Bouman, director of the Center Media & Health in the Netherlands, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education. Her career is a rare combination of roles as social scientist and educator, designer of EE campaigns, and public policy advocate. Her work has led to television ...
September 22nd, 2010 12:00pm
2010 Sentinel for Health Awards Ceremony
The Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program will announce the winners of the eleventh annual Sentinel for Health Awards Ceremony. Six categories of storylines will be recognized – daytime drama, primetime drama, primetime comedy, primetime drama minor storyline, children's programming, and the newly-added global health storyline. Th...
September 22nd, 2010 6:00pm
Open World Forum
Lear Center Fellow David Bollier hosts a panel and workshop on the commons at the Open World Forum, a major, international open-space business conference where stakeholders in the Free/Open Source movement can meet and make new connections. September 29 through October 1, 2010Paris, FranceFor more information, visit the website at www.openworldfo...
September 29th, 2010 - October 1st, 2010
The Popular Music Project Presents: Raymond Roker
Raymond Roker, Co-Founder and Publisher of URB magazine and URB.com, is the 2010-2011 Distinguished Artist in Residence for the Popular Music Project. A former DJ, Roker is actively imagining new avenues for digital media,music, social networking, and branding/marketing to commingle in creative ways. The Popular Music Project will host an intro...
October 7th, 2010
Why Me? A Visions & Voices Event
In 1974, Annenberg Journalism Professor Joe Saltzman produced what has been acknowledged to be the first TV documentary on breast cancer, an hour-long program called Why Me? This groundbreaking documentary addressed a subject not seen before on television. The award-winning program was viewed by one out of every three women in the Western world, ...
October 21st, 2010 6:30pm
Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform
Lear Center Fellow David Bollier hosts a panel discussion as part of the International Commons Conference (ICC) "Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform." The event seeks to bring together a diverse group of about 150 international and Germany/European based commoners, intellectuals, activists and policy makers. Questions to be exp...
