Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean of Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California talks to EDU about his vision for the school and about the role of media schools and communications Read More »
Innovate Or Die
March 20, 2010 by
EDU TECH, 2010
EDU: What changes did you bring when you joined as the new Dean?
Ernest: We started with the idea of the ‘three Is’—innovation, impact and
internationalisation. Innovation because the field of media is dynamic. An
institution which provides media training to students must be innovative. It
was Gandhi who said that we must become the change we want to see in the
world. If we want our students to be innovative, then we (professors) must
also innovate. I thought of impact as the second ‘I’, because I wanted to
ensure that the school continued its commitment to impact the society in a
positive way. The third point is internationalisation. With the world becoming
more global, our students should be able to adjust to all cultures. Read More »
Hollywood stars? I prefer a media summit any day
March 13, 2010 by
Ernest Wilson, the dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the chairman of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, flew in from New York. “It helped me understand the needs of the region, and what I can do in partnerships that I have here to contribute to the region,” he told my colleague Keach Hagey on the summit’s final day. Read More »
Demand Media assembles editorial advisory group
February 25, 2010 by
The Web site developers behind one of the most visited sites in the U.S., eHow.com, has assembled a comprehensive editorial advisory committee of educational, business and media specialists.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand Media Inc., which has an office in Austin, created the board to counsel on the ongoing development of the company’s content and programming efforts, according to a release today. Read More »
International Seminar on Network Theory: Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age
February 20, 2010 by
The international Network Theory Conference, organized by the ANN and SONIC research centers, took place on Feb 19-20 at the University of Southern California. Bruno Latour delivered the keynote speech titled “Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-network theorist.” The four panels were focused on conceptual and methodological aspects of network theory, network inclusion and exclusion, network theories of power, and the semantic web. The list of presenters includes: Noshir Contractor, Peter Monge, Paul Leonardi, Yochai Benkler, Ernest J. Wilson III, Rahul Tongia, Karine Barzilai-Nahon, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, David Grewal, and Manuel Castells. Read More »
International Seminar On Network Theory: The Inclusionary/Exclusionary Logic of Networks
February 19, 2010 by
Session 2: The Inclusionary/Exclusionary Logic of Networks
The Dark Side of Metcalfe’s Law: Multiple and Growing Costs of Network Exclusion- Presentation, Report
Ernest J. Wilson III, University of Southern California
Rahul Tongia, CSTEP (Bangalore)/Carnegie Mellon University Read More »
Google, China and U.S. Foreign Policy
February 10, 2010 by
The Pacific Council convened a teleconference with Dr. Ernest J. Wilson, Dean of the Annenberg School at USC and Pacific Council Board member and adjunct fellow. Dr. Wilson discussed the recent events surrounding Google’s presence in China and the larger implications of the company’s threat to pull out of China entirely. We considered his recent Huffington Post piece http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernest-j-wilson/google-china-and-us-forei_b_443741.html which explores the question: how will an emerging “Silicon Valley foreign policy” affect the broader U.S. foreign policy agenda?
Dr. Wilson’s current work concentrates on China-Africa relations, global sustainable innovation in high-technology industries, and the role of politics in the diffusion of information and communication technologies.
Please click here to view the presentation pdf.
Please click here to listen to a recording of the conference call. (Opens in a new window) Read More »
Google, China and U.S. Foreign Policy
January 31, 2010 by
The Huffington Post, 2010
Sitting in the lobby of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, reading the front page of the local Economic Times, I was hit with a one-two-punch: the news that Google may quit the huge Chinese market in a dispute over serious cyber attacks to its facilities in the PRC, and the feeling that I was watching the opening salvo of a new, major trend in American foreign policy that has been quietly building for several years. Read More »
Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy
January 6, 2010 by
In October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy issued its report on how our media need to evolve to serve the public interest in the digital age. The effort included some big names: Google’s Marissa Mayer, former solicitor general Ted Olson, ex-L.A. Times editor John Carroll, former FCC chairman Reed Hundt, and new media researcher danah boyd among them. Here our friend Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation explains how the report fits in a tradition of media self-examination and issues a call to action.
Ernie Wilson, dean of USC’s Annenberg School and chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, announced he is boosting innovation in public media. CPB backed NPR’s Project Argo in a partnership with Knight Foundation. Read More »
A Converging China?
December 7, 2009 by
Perspectives: China, Africa, and the African Diaspora, 2009
There are few issues more essential to long-term global stability than the integration of the People’s Republic of China into the world economic and political system. From Cold War pariah to international powerhouse, the country’s transition over the past 30 years has driven two parallel reactions among the world’s countries – admiration from the developing world and nervousness among developed countries. The developing world admires China for its economic success, a model of controlled yet entrepreneurial capitalism that provides for political stability. Coupled with the country’s closed-off domestic system, however, the behavior and intentions of the Communist Party continue to be viewed with suspicion by the world’s largest powers. In other words, we see unique and divergent evaluations of the same facts of China’s rise in the world. Read More »