By Angelina Yip The mural at the Natural History Museum immediately caught my attention. It was filled with different people, places, colors, and moments that came together to tell the story of Los Angeles. The longer I looked at it, the more details I found. Each section seemed to represent a different part of the …
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A New Idea
I never thought I would find myself listening to a podcast during my free time this summer. Though, I can’t give myself all the credit. In our recent communications classes, we’ve been exploring different forms of media that effectively connect with their target audience. Our main focus has been podcasts and editing them into full-blown …
Podcasts: An opportunity to build an auditory adventure
By: Charli Padilla My second week at the Annenberg Youth Academy (AYA) was an immersive experience filled with lectures, projects, and activities that pushed us to dive deeper into our final projects. For me, the most beneficial lessons this week revolved around the art and technique of podcasting. Being allowed to explore how audio stories …
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When Silence Speaks Through COMM 101: How Sound Gives Ordinary Voices Extraordinary Power
Many people think that change only begins when someone is shown on TV, holding a microphone, or is able to attract a crowd. Yet, this week made me question that notion. It occurred to me that some of the most significant changes in history have been achieved not through images but sound. A voice, broadcasted …
Community Was Already Here
By: Amaiya Medley This week, a word that resonated with me everywhere I turned was “community.” I didn’t expect that to be my key takeaway, but by the time we left the Natural History Museum today, I could not think about anything else. In COMM 101, we recorded a podcast together as a class. Lots …
A Cause for Contentment
The days leading up to the USC program brought not only an impatient temperament but also a seemingly non-ephemeral feeling I could not properly name. I would pass the campus often — usually on my commute to various events — and ponder what my future could hold at Annenberg. On my first day, I marveled …
The Importance of Media Literacy when analyzing Graphic Designs
By: Charli Padilla Over my first week at the Annenberg Youth Academy, specifically in the Communications 101 course, I learned many beneficial strategies on how to have a heightened level of civic media literacy when it comes to analyzing a series of graphic designs. This photo shows a set of notes that student Charli Padilla …
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Learning to Read the Screen
By: Angelina Yip The first thing I noticed was the screen. It stretched across the Wallis Annenberg lobby, glowing with stories, announcements, and images that seemed to move faster than I could fully take in. Sitting there with my notebook open and my reading in front of me, I felt like I had stepped into …
Team Guava’s Voter Registration Zine
Team Guava’s civic zine, “Your Vo(te)ice Matters,” highlights the importance of using one’s voice through voting. Intended for incoming youth voters, older voters who lack support, and audiences who may not have had access to voting support before, this zine emphasizes staying educated on important topics and making an impact on one’s community, state, and …
Team Guava’s Red-Pill Podcast
Team Guava’s podcast explores the nuances of social media algorithms in contemporary society, emphasizing the ideological shifts that are primarily affecting young men. The term “red pill,” has evolved from its original usage in The Matrix, becoming an indicator of right-wing spaces using podcasts and other direct channels of communication to normalize hateful, misogynistic principles. …
Communicating Change 