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Getting it Right: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War:
As part of the Lear Center's Historians, Journalists and the Challenges of Getting It Right project,
Jewish historian Bernard Wasserstein explains that the collapse of the
European Jewish civilization prior to World War II was as much the
result of internal decay as of external attack.
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Crazy Stupid Cancer:
Cancer does not discriminate. In this invitation-only event—presented by Hollywood, Health & Society in partnership with the Writers Guild of America, West—top-notch screenwriters, medical experts, cancer survivors and educators will discuss the science, stories and solutions regarding this pervasive disease.
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How Media Shapes Perceptions of Science and Technology for Girls and Women: Lear Center Managing Director and Director of Research Johanna Blakley contributed to this white paper published by FEM-inc.com, a new venture designed to drive positive change for women, through media.
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Dan Rather in Conversation with Marty Kaplan:
Dan Rather reflects on his life with CBS News and the future of television journalism in this conversation with Lear Center director Marty Kaplan. Part of Writers Bloc Presents.
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Media in Our Image: Women's Studies Quarterly:
Lear Center Managing Director and Director of Research Johanna Blakley pens this piece on social media in gender that appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of Women's Studies Quarterly. A social media component includes a Tumblr blog and Pinterest page.
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Educating for the Common Good: Perspectives for Higher Education in The 21st Century: Lear Center director Marty Kaplan opened the Educating for the Common Good symposium at the Ernest L. Boyer Center April 13, 2012 at Messiah College with this special presentation celebrating the ongoing influence of Dr. Boyers.
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Tom Brokaw in Conversation with Marty Kaplan: Politics. History. Love. Newt. Nothing was off limits at this conversation between Lear Center director Marty Kaplan and Tom Brokaw. Part of Writers Boc Presents.
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Marty Kaplan: From Attention to Engagement:
Barcelona Media, an interdisciplinary center of research and innovation, invited Lear Center director Marty Kaplan to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration on March 6, 2012. Kaplan's presentation explored the impact on the attention economy of new metrics for the audience.
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Warren Bennis: How Leaders Collaborate:
A pioneer in the study of collaboration across disciplines, organizations and sectors, Warren Bennis has first-hand knowledge of legendary teams and what makes them tick. Here, he shares some of what he’s learned about successful groups as part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy Initiative.
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Global Health in Lights:
Top TV producers, writers and performers come together with key Washington policymakers to focus on how global health is portrayed in entertainment media. Actress Mariska Hargitay and television producer Dr. Neal Baer from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit participate.
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Primetime War on Drugs & Terror: This report provides a portrait of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs as seen in TV dramas. America's most popular shows stayed closer to reality than common stereotypes about what terrorists and drug users look like and what drugs Americans are abusing.
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The Heat is On! Creating a Viable Future in the Face of Climate Change: Health and entertainment experts speak about the science behind climate change, the way it affects human health, emerging solutions, and the entertainment medias portrayal of these issues. Part of Hollywood, Health & Society's continuing outreach to TV/film writers.
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Martine Bouman: It Takes Three to Tango:
Martine Bouman, director of the Center Media & Health in the Netherlands, became the first woman to receive the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education in 2010. Here she discusses her unique career as social scientist and educator, designer of EE campaigns, and public policy advocate.
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Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy: Technology has enabled university research to become more rapid, more dynamic and more collaborative, but it also challenges some traditions & practices. This publication spotlights novel ways that research communities use technology and innovation to foster creativity and collaboration, part of a major USC symposium.
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Why Me? A Visions and Voices Event: In 1974, Annenberg journalism professor Joe Saltzman produced Why Me?, a landmark documentary acknowledged to be the first television documentary on breast cancer. The program was viewed by one out of every three women in the Western world, and has been credited with saving thousands of lives. This transcript features Saltzman's remarks at a special screening as part of Visions & Voices.
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Addiction: Fact and Fiction:
Recovered addicts, medical experts, drug experts and TV writers share their compelling stories about addiction and how they dramatized it for television.
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You Want a Piece of Me? Organ Transplantation Stories From the Real World: 63If you were given the chance to save eight lives, wouldn’t you take it? Experts and writers discuss leading edge technology and therapy and
expose the myths of organ donation. Part of Hollywood, Health & Society's continuing outreach to TV/film writers.
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Art, Culture, Politics: A Conversation with Shepard Fairey:
BrandSpace's Sarah Banet-Weiser sits down with guerrilla artist Shepard Fairey to discuss his take on art, politics and free culture in this engaging Visions & Voices event.
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Johanna Blakley at TEDWomen: Social Media & the End of Gender:
As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Lear Center Deputy Director Johanna Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media. Download the slides here.
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Johanna Blakley at TEDx: Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture:
Lear Center deputy director Johanna Blakley delivered
a witty and incisive talk at the 2010 TEDxUSC about how the fashion
industry flourishes creatively and financially without the protection
of copyright, while other creative industries -- music, TV and movies
-- are often hobbled by draconian copyright laws. Download the slides here.
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Does LA Local TV News Cover News Locals Need?:
Martin Kaplan, director of the Lear Center, is co-principal investigator, along with Seton Hall's Dr. Matthew Hale, on this unprecedented study of more than 11,000 news stories aired by eight LA TV stations.
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The Business & Culture of Social Media:
Everything we know about reaching an audience has changed with the emergence of social media. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan and Deputy Director Johanna Blakley explore the ever-changing media landscape and search for the people "formerly known as the audience" in this special presentation.
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Public Space, Public Art & Public Life:
Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates this panel discussion that explored the interplay between art and architecture in urban spaces. The panel featured Christopher Janney; Scott Fisher, chair of the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Robert Kraft, composer and CEO of Fox Music, Inc.; and USC School of Architecture dean Qingyun Ma, among others.
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World of Stories:
Hollywood, Health & Society hosted this enthralling conversation between global health experts and top television writers who have created award-winning storylines about global health issues in their primetime television shows. Tachi Yamada, executive director of the global health program at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the keynote speaker.
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Celebrity Diplomacy: The Norman Lear Center and the USC Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy host a discussion on the pros and cons of celebrity participation in international diplomatic efforts.
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2009 Everett M. Rogers Colloquium:
Dr. Garth Japhet was the 2009 recipient of the Everett M. Rogers Colloquium honoring the memory of former USC professor Everett Rogers. Japhet was recognized for his immense contribution to entertainment education through his work with the TV program Soul City and his subsequent Heartlines project. Read about the Award.
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Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity:
This groundbreaking conference explored the fashion industry's enthusiastic embrace of sampling, appropriation and borrowed inspiration, core components of every creative process. It also featured trend forecasts, fashion shows and an eclectic mix of experts from fashion, music, TV and film.
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Between the Seams, A Fertile Commons:
Duke Law Professor Jennifer Jenkins and intellectual property lawyer Christine Cox explore the relationship between fashion and various U.S. intellectual property regimes, examining why fashion design is generally not protectable under copyright, design patent, trademark or trade dress.
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Music & Fashion: The Balancing Act Between Creativity and Control: Two USC Scholars Aram Sinnreich and Marissa Gluck examine the subtle yet effective way the fashion community regulates copying, in contrast to the dense copyright protection and brutal legal force that characterize the music industry.
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Local TV News Coverage of the 2004 Elections: Final Report:
This Final Report from the Lear Center Local News Archive summarizes findings from a study of 44 television stations in 11 markets during the 2004 general election campaign. The report finds that 92% of the broadcasts studied contained no stories at all about local candidate races, including U.S. House and state senate, and eight times more coverage went to accidental injury than local races. Read the press release.
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Get Ready Survey:
The 97 percent overwhelmingly agree that it should be an annual event. Visit our Shakeout project page.
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The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York:
Presenters Elizabeth Currid (USC) and Sarah Williams (Columbia University) have captured patterns of the cultural production system by geo-coding over 6,000 events and 300,000 Getty Images photos taken in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood:
This glossy book, illustrated with rare materials from the USC Warner Bros. Archives, features essays by Leo Braudy, Steven Ross, Dana Polan, and Betty Warner Sheinbaum. Download the book here.To order a free copy, email enter@usc.edu.
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You Better Think: Why Feminist Cultural Criticism Still Matters in a "Post-Feminist," Peer-to-Peer World:
Ann Powers, Resident at the Lear Center's Popular Music Project and LA Times pop music critic, delivered this brilliant lecture at the Tenth Annual USC Women in Higher Education Luncheon.
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The Future of Television: Advertising, technology and the pursuit of audiences:
Broadcast television is in crisis. In this report, Marissa Gluck and Meritxell Roca Sales examine the explosion of media outlets and content providers that has fueled this fragmentation, as well as advertising agencies’ struggle to adapt to new technologies.
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The Life and Legacy of Walt Disney:
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination, lead this panel discussion featuring Time movie critic Richard Schickel and Disney legends Alice Davis, Harriet Burns and Blaine Gibson.
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How Healthy Is Prime Time?:
In 2008 The Kaiser Family Foundation released the study, "How Healthy Is Prime Time?: An Analysis of Health Content in Popular Prime Time Television Programs," co-sponsored by the Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society project. The report examines three seasons of top-ten-rated primetime scripted shows.
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The Economics of Attention:
The Norman Lear Center and frog design joined forces to sponsor an informal panel that took a look at how attention works with Richard A. Lanham, author of The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information, and David Merkoski, Creative Director at frog design.
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Studies on Attention: An Annotated Bibliography:
What is “attention” and how does it work? The Lear Center asked Patrick Reed to take a broad, cross-disciplinary look at how attention works and he produced this annotated bibliography.
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Between Father and Son: Music and Creativity Across the Generations:
Communication Professor Josh Kun, director of the Popular Music Project at USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center, moderates a unique father-son dialogue on music, creativity and technology between Motown legend Lamont Dozier and his son, hip hop/R&B producer Beau Dozier.
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Beyond Erin Brockovich:
Contaminants in our air and water take a toll on the health of Americans. Hollywood, Health & Society and the Writers Guild of America, West, co-hosted this discussion, with two women who faced life-changing toxic exposures, and environmental health experts who warned of growing rates of diseases.
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Toward a New Definition of Celebrity:
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler hammers out a modern understanding of celebrity and explores how the phenomenon is constructed.
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Entertainment Goes Global:
Audiences around the world are inundated with entertainment products -- developed locally, nationally, and abroad -- but no one agrees on the effects. This essay examines the implications of global entertainment and suggests directions for future research. Read more about the Lear Center's Entertainment Goes Global project.
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The Norman Lear Center Manifesto:
What is entertainment? What is entertainment studies? What does it matter? The Norman Lear Center takes on these questions through a photo essay and incisive text. View the Flash movie.
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Pocket Guide to the Norman Lear Center:
Our Pocket Guide provides an update on all Lear Center activites since publication of its Manifesto in 2000. At 65 pages, it is a comprehensive look at the ins and outs of the Center, in a slick travel book format. Download the PDF here or email us at enter@usc.edu for a free copy.
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