Media Highlights
The Los Angeles Times featured an op-ed by PhD student Frances Corry on what happens when social platforms shut down. "In many ways, what is put on these platforms today represents a significant part of our cultural heritage, however banal it may seem in the present," she wrote.
NBC News spoke with Karen North about the heated debates on social media over pandemic restrictions. "We can now go online and not only watch someone break a rule but watch someone attack someone for breaking a rule,” she said.
KCRW-FM's Greater L.A. spoke with Christina Bellantoni about the hiring of Kevin Merida as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. “Having someone that’s going to come in and be a real newspaper person with a vision to be able to lead staffs large and small, I think is going to be really beneficial,” she said.
CalMatters spoke with Hernán Galperin on the efforts to solve California's digital divide. "Before the pandemic, there's been more attention to deployment issues," he said, "but much less attention to the affordability gap."
Wired interviewed Kate Crawford on what people don't understand about artificial intelligence. "It is presented as this ethereal and objective way of making decisions," she said. "But the name is deceptive: AI is neither artificial nor intelligent," she said.
CNN cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the lack of women composers in Hollywood.
The U.S. Master's Swimming website profiled Rook Campbell and how he works to help transgender and nonbinary swimmers feel comfortable and welcome.
Marketplace featured Allissa Richardson on how smartphones can be a powerful tool for holding police accountable for their actions. "With these kinds of videos that are done with cellphones, they have debunked how police are viewed by the public as the first arbiters of truth," she said.
KCBS-TV featued research by Hernán Galperin into how Californians view telemedicine and working from home.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured research by Hernán Galperin on the pandemic-fueled rise in telehealth and telecommuting. "We're seeing a seismic shift in the way people want to work, learn and manage health visits among those who have broadband access," he said.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Martin Kaplan on how the late Walter Mondale redefined the modern vice presidency. “Mondale insisted on these changes as conditions for him to go on the ticket, and [Jimmy] Carter kept his word,’’ said Kaplan, Mondale's former speechwriter.
The Los Angeles Times featured Taj Frazier on how the entertainment industry exploits Black trauma for profit. "There is a need and necessity to tell difficult stories, to interrogate the sickness of this infrastructure of white supremacy. But people are also asking, 'At what cost?'" he said.