First Journal of Week 1. Hello my name is, Pedro Madrigal and this is my Journal for the first week, In this week we got introduced to a lot of topics of Civic Engagement, In June 19, 2023 We talked about Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a federal Holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of …
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A New World
The first week of the USC AYA program was an amazing experience filled with knowledge. Though the first day was nerve-racking, the breakfast with all the students and parents helped to make me feel a lot more comfortable and ready for the day. One of the things I was immediately excited about was the guest …
Yu Peng – Journal #1 6/23
Before I came to this program I heard there would be multiple projects and activities for students. First week in the USC AYA program was an incredible experience because I never had an experience going to a college program and everything was new to me. I had the opportunity to learn from university professors and …
Media Engagement
In the first week of the 2023 Annenberg Communication’s course, we briefly and deeply went into contextualization and the role of media in today’s society. On June 19th, we went over several functions of encoding and decoding. This is intrinsically connected to how citizens engage with each other in society. In addition, we also talked …
New experiences
Stepping into the Annenberg building, room ANN 106 for the first time was compelling. However, not knowing who I was going to meet was an understatement. Not being familiar with Communications or Journalism I had some worries I was not going to fit in as well as the others. However, that was not the case, …
Words, the Wise, and a Way for the Future
How five days worth of exposure to communications has changed its entire meaning.
Propaganda + Imagination
This past week attending aya has been great, our professors and guest speakers have really inspired me and I’m sure my classmates can agree with me on this. At the beginning of the week we started with intro to communications and as the week went on we explored the different types of civics which included …
Not So Simple
By Evelyn Tsoi Privilege. It has irreparably shaped my entire upbringing from the moment I was born 16 years ago in Arcadia, CA. My entire life, I have been surrounded by opportunities and affluence. I have taken the little things for granted and overlooked the complex beauty of life and its functions. Although I am …
Propaganda, Hero’s, and Civic Imagination
Propaganda, noun, “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view” (Oxford Dictionary). In the contemporary sense propaganda is always around us and is influential to our daily lives. The things we view on social media or simply on a billboard. We dove …
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Tomorrow’s Growing Gardens
The sunrise of tomorrow is never promised. And yet, every night as we drift off to sleep, we think of our plans for the next day, maybe some of us dream up entirely different worlds. A world of tomorrow, a world fifty years into the future, a world we may not even live to see. …
Communicating Change 