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Last week I had the chance to head back to my home turf to attend the “Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents” conference at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania.  The conference was organized, hosted, and moderated by Dr. Amy Jordan, director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of APPC and Dr. Dan Romer, director of the APPC’s Adolescent Communication Institute.  The day featured informative and engaging presentations by some of…

On Friday, March 30, the Cooney Center-partner USC Annenberg Innovation Lab held its annual Innovation Summit. The day-long event brought together the sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent worlds of academia, private sector, non-profits, and artists to play hands-on with new prototypes and applications from the Lab. We had the pleasure of having JGCC Director of Research Lori Takeuchi join us for the event. Besides the Cooney Center, the Lab’s collaborators include IBM, DirectTV, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),…