Ready to Share asks whether the fashion industry offers a compelling model for other creative industries to explore and emulate. Are technological developments – digitization, cheap and easy replicability – propelling the emergence of a “creative commons” in any case, no matter what content industries prefer?
Lesser artists borrow. Great artists steal. — Igor Stravinsky
Good artists copy. Great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
Great research universities are all about creating and disseminating knowledge. And who doesn’t want to be interdisciplinary? But collaboration requires… More
One of the fascinating paradoxes of the digital revolution is that it’s unleashed such divergent ideas that we lack a… More
Everett M. Rogers was an influential communications scholar and teacher, and former associate dean and Walter H. Annenberg Professor of… More
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Grand Intervention, beginning in July 2005, worked to maximize public input into the design of a new 16-acre civic park on… More
Hollywood, Health & Society provides entertainment industry professionals with accurate and timely information for health storylines. Funded by the Centers for… More
The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) investigates conflicting images of the journalist in film, television, radio, commercials, cartoons,… More
The Media Impact Project is a hub for collecting, developing and sharing approaches for measuring the impact of media. Based… More
Media, Citizens & Democracy (MCD) examines the way news and entertainment media affect policy development and public perceptions of government. Beginning… More
The Popular Music Project (PMP) is a one-stop home for the interdisciplinary study and analysis of popular music. Bringing together faculty… More
The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism encourages and showcases substantive and innovative coverage that informs viewers… More
The connection between Hollywood and American politics became an increasingly pertinent area of inquiry after the 9/11 attacks. The marriage… More