The Department of Computer Science invites you to

 

Surveying the Digital Future:

 

Just an Essential Part of Everyday Life

 

by

Jeffrey Cole

Director of the Center for the Digital Future

University of Southern California

http://digitalcenter.org/

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

2:30pm – 3:30pm

S401 Pappajohn Business Building

 

 

 

Drawing on longitudinal data from its long-term look at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet, “Surveying the Digital Future,” the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication recently released its fifth year findings. Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center, will break down the project’s data to look at the most important and compelling impact of the Internet over the past decade. The project, which issues a domestic and international report each year, now extends to over 23 countries around the world.

 

In July 2004 Jeffrey Cole joined the USC Annenberg School for Communication as Director of the newly formed Center for the Digital Future and as a Research Professor. Prior to joining USC, Cole was a longtime member of the UCLA faculty and served as Director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, based in the Anderson Graduate School of Management. At UCLA and now at USC Annenberg, Cole founded and directs the World Internet Project, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of computer and Internet technology on all aspects of society, which is conducted in over 20 countries. At the announcement of the project in June 1999, Vice President Al Gore praised Cole as a “true visionary providing the public with information on how to understand the impact of media.”

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