Social Media

USC Annenberg releases a new study exploring the gender and race/ethnicity of hosts and guests of popular podcasts.

For participants in a study from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute, the answer was often: too hard.

A study by Luca Luceri and his team at USC’s Information Sciences Institute finds that the likelihood someone will be influenced online isn’t spread evenly across a social platform.

The program, a collaboration between USC Annenberg and the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, offered underrepresented students from L.A. schools an opportunity to improve social media’s mental health impact on young people.

With misinformation on the rise and American voters increasingly losing faith in elections, USC experts explore strategies to restore confidence in democracy.

Lerman, an expert on how people communicate in digital spaces, explains how misinformation thrives on emotional triggers — and why traditional fact-checking often misses the mark.

USC scholars explain why social media is so all-consuming — and how we can help break the habit.

The free and informed press, long considered a cornerstone of American democracy, has reached an inflection point. USC experts discuss.

It’s difficult to moderate content on real-time social media platforms. Two researchers from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are out to change that.

Luca Luceri of USC’s Information Sciences Institute is part of a team that is using science to guide social media regulations.