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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL) today released findings from its final social media sentiment analysis of the 2011 World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL) today announced a new social media analysis project focused on Major League Baseball during the World Series. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The USC Annenberg Social Sentiment Index is being compiled by students and relies on IBM Social Analytics technology to analyze millions of tweets in order to assess public social media...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the Sentinel for Health Awards for exemplary achievements of television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives were announced at the Writers Guild of America, West in Los Angeles. The NBC drama Parenthood received first place in the primetime drama category for accurately portraying the challenges involved in raising a child who has Asperger's syndrome. An episode of ABC's...
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Outlaw Blues is a searing tale of the rock and roll and film revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s told by an insider who worked with Bob Dylan and The Band, George Harrison and Martin Scorsese to change the cultural landscape of America. The book is one of the first Enhanced E-Books with more than 100 video clips embedded throughout the story of the American counter-culture. Though much of the book is centered on a group of musicians and filmmakers...
New USC report details steps to be taken by industry, government and NGOs "The time has come to harness the power of technology to go after those using it to enslave others," California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The rapid expansion of the Internet is being used to facilitate human trafficking, yet it also can be harnessed to monitor and combat this form of modern-day slavery. This is the finding of a new report from the Center...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation are pleased to announce expanded plans for Annenberg Alchemy's 3rd Annual PEER TO PEER which includes a move to a larger venue at Club Nokia at L.A. LIVE, event programming by Academy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated producer Bruce Cohen and Los Angeles Social Venture Partners' popular nonprofit competition, Social Innovation Fast Pitch. PEER TO PEER is a vibrant mix of live presentation, mixed...
In TV Dramas' War on Drugs, Users and Dealers Are Mostly White, Rarely Arrested LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Providing a surprising portrait of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs as seen in TV dramas, a new study released by the Norman Lear Center says that 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. The Primetime War on Drugs & Terror...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hollywood, Health & Society, a program of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are announcing eight finalists for the Sentinel for Health Awards. In its twelfth year, the Sentinel for Health Awards recognize the exemplary achievements of the writers of television storylines that inform,...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism has announced the recipients of the 2011 Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life. Among many outstanding applications, nine projects were chosen to receive grants between $5,000 and $20,000. "We are very excited to support reporting on topics that include the influence of William Lane Craig, one of the leading thinkers of the Christian right;...
LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- USC Annenberg announced journalism awards totaling $53,500 to support investigative and explanatory reporting projects on topics ranging from health in America's underserved communities to the challenges for health reform and quality medical care. More than 60 journalists nationwide competed this year for 19 journalism grants from the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the National Health Journalism Fellowships - both programs...
