JOVRNALISM™ is a student-led publication based in USC Annenberg that uses emerging tech to tell compelling, award-winning stories.
For the Spring 2022 semester, students produced a series of projects: Reflections of the 1992 L.A. Uprising and World Championship Hoop Dance Contest.
This behind-the-scenes video was made by Sam Schwartz.
As part of the Spring 2022 semester, JOVRNALISM partnered with the Arizona Republic to collaborate on a series of stories relating to the indigenous communities. While the students are still in post-production on some of the stories, we did publish an immersive documentary on the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest held annually at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
The Republic published an article with our video embedded: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/03/28/hoop-dance-world-championship-returns-heard-museum-phoenix/7187452001/
Our video here:
Or on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/693233016
JOVRNALISM was invited to attend the Doha Forum in Qatar and present its award-winning, immersive work
Six JOVRNALISM alums and Professor Hernandez were flown to Qatar as special guests of the kingdom after some government officials experienced immersive projects during a USC Center on Public Diplomacy summer workshop.
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For the new project, JOVRNALISM partners with PBS SoCal’s To Foster Change and Peace4Kids, a non-profit organization that aims to build a supportive and warm community for foster youth in South Los Angeles.
Peace4Kids has provided mentor programs, leadership programs, and family meals to teach and care for foster youth, according to its website.
“We work very intensely with transitional age youth (age 16 to high school graduation) and we thought it would be best to highlight their stories using the virtual reality platform,” said Miriam Cortez-Cáceres, the program coordinator at Peace4Kids.
The project aims to produce foster youth’s stories through emerging technologies such as virtual reality(VR) and Snapchat augmented reality(AR) lenses, according to USC professor Robert Hernandez.
Read the whole story here: http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2019/10/22/usc-jovrnalism-to-produce-immersive-stories-about-foster-care-system-in-partnership-with-peace4kids-and-kcet/
This past week, JOVRNALISM traveled to Catalina Island to visit the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. The institute, which is an extension of USC Dornsife College of Letters and Sciences, researches different ways to implement environmental sustainability into everyday life.
Our Homeless Realities project, produced by the Fall 2018 class, will be debuting at a public event held Saturday, February 16 at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles.
The event, which starts at 2PM, will not only feature the diverse and innovative experiences, but will also have a panel discussion with the students and the homeless participants that produced the stories.
The entire project will also launch across all the JOVRNALISM platforms, including on a project site: http://homelessrealities.jovrnalism.io
To learn more about the project, including the training the class offered the community, read this story by USC Annenberg.
It was our first meeting with community members from Leimert Park, Los Angeles’ historic and influential Black neighborhood just east of Crenshaw.
Sitting in a large circle inside the iconic KAOS Network, my students and I heard a variety of stories ranging from the legendary jazz musicians that lived blocks away, to revolutionaries of the Watts Riots to how a new public transit station could bring in either new opportunities or gentrification.
The Fall 2017 class wanted to experiment with new, cutting-edge technology that included augmented reality, 360 video, Unity and videogrammetry (which produces a moving hologram).
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The immersive project Turning Tides: The Story of the Salton Sea — produced in partnership between the student-led JOVRNALISM and The Desert Sun — won Online News Association’s Online Journalism Award for the student Pro-Am.
The Salton Sea project was produced by two USC Annenberg classes led by Prof. Robert Hernandez and Stuart Sender working alongside The Sun’s talented staff.
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JOVRNALISM all began with a cute typo to save characters on a class site that now produces award-winning, immersive journalism experience all led by USC students from across the university.
Here is a timeline showing some of our highlights:
We’re excited to be bringing our audience another immersive virtual reality experience from one of the most historic and charming communities in Los Angeles: San Pedro. Although the neighborhood at the end of the 110 Freeway is often times overlooked, we’ll be diving into some of its most unique and fascinating points of interest, such as its world-renowned fish market, major international seaport, movie famous Korean Bell and much more.