The Popular Music Project is proud to announce the National Day Laborer Organizing Network as its 2016-2017 Distinguished Artist in Residence. NDLON works to unify and strengthen its member organizations to be more strategic and effective in their efforts to develop leadership, mobilize, and organize day laborers in order to… More
Johanna Blakley, the Lear Center’s Managing Director and Director of Research, presented at the 2016 frank conference, which is considered the foremost gathering of people who use strategic communications to drive social change. Her insightful talk “Who Cares?” explores the phenomenon of “development fatigue,” where citizens of wealthy nations believe that… More
Twelve finalists who worked on TV projects with storylines featuring health topics including campus sexual assault, PTSD, autism, domestic violence and climate change will be honored at the gala awards ceremony in Hollywood on September 24, 2015. Read the full list of finalists. MORE
What is the history behind the making of some of hip hop’s greatest albums and songs? How are tracks made? How can the process of assembling a track be applied to larger social and cultural practices? Inspired by the publication of Check the Technique V.2, journalist Brian Coleman‘s second volume… More
Duncan Watts, principal researcher at Microsoft Research was awarded the 2014 Ev Rogers Award and presented his trenchant colloquium, “Social Influence in Markets and Networks (What’s So Viral About ‘Going Viral’?)” Watts described the surprising difficulty of empirically identifying social influence, which — despite the metaphor of “going viral” —… More
Mortally consequential lies by those in power can take months, years or even decades to discover, leaving the public deluded about the most important issues of the day until it’s too late to do anything meaningful about them.