Associate Professor Brett Robertson (left) moderates a climate panel at UNESCO’s 2024 World Press Freedom Day in Santiago, organized with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The college’s partnership with UNESCO includes research, forums and other initiatives. We track public opinion on artificial intelligence, investigate how malign actors manipulate social media and convene conversations on media freedom and viability. We take pride in the fact our work is relevant to UNESCO’s values and mission.
Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor at Northwestern University in Qatar and a USC UNESCO Fellow, documents in great depth and over many years how digital influence operations are reframing and normalizing violence and mass harm. (pdf)
The AI Public Opinion Tracker is coordinated by Dan Sultanescu, with key contributions from Linwan Yu and Randy Covington. The four reports track shifts in public trust, use and perceptions of AI. The AI Public Opinion Tracker supports UNESCO’s goal of upholding information as a public good.
The College of Information and Communications is playing a prominent role in one of UNESCO's most influential publications, the newly released World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development report.
Dan Sultanescu, visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of South Carolina, shares the result of his research on the evolution of the global conversation on misinformation, disinformation and fake news.
The 30th anniversary of UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day prompted more than 400,000 social media mentions and billions of views worldwide, according to the Social Media Insights Lab at the University of South Carolina.
UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd was mentioned in social media 273,000 times and seen many times more, according to an analysis by the Social Media Insights Lab at the University of South Carolina in the United States.
The international spotlight shone on UofSC’s Alumni Center Friday as officials from UNESCO and the United Nations’ World Food Programme discussed the importance of a global free press.