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Hollywood, Health & Society
Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) provides entertainment industry professionals with accurate and timely information for storylines on health, safety and national security. With generous...
View ArticleHere’s what FRONTLINE learned from our study on Immersive Journalism
Virtual Reality can help bring stories to life in exciting ways. Read our new study on immersive journalism from FRONTLINE and Emblematic Studios to learn what our research reveals about new...
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Entertainment Education & Media Impact Assessment: Johanna Blakley
Lear Center Managing Director Johanna Blakley presents on the entertainment education model our Hollywood, Health & Society program uses as well as new work from our Media Impact Project at the...
View ArticleWho Has Control Over Nuclear War?
Nuclear experts Joe Cirincione, Jeffrey Lewis, Theresa Hitchens and Alex Wellerstein debate the controls—or lack thereof—the United States has in place to avoid nuclear catastrophe.This sobering panel...
View ArticleFrom the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action through...
Producers of the EPIX series America Divided conducted an innovative engagement campaign to spur action against social injustice and invited the Lear Center’s Media Impact Project to determine if their...
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Johanna Blakley: Media Impact Presentation at Science & Cocktails
A joint venture of Science and Cocktails and CPH:DOX presents a trans-disciplinary evening of science with media/entertainment researcher Johanna Blakley, the screening of the documentary INFORMATION...
View ArticleScience & Cocktails: Does Media Affect How We See the World? with Johanna...
How do media messages affect us? Can media storytelling – whether factual or fictional – affect how we see the world? Can stories change the way we lead their lives? What role does emotion play in...
View ArticleFrank 2020
Lear Center Director of Research, Erica Rosenthal, will present at this year’s frank2020 conference, an annual convening of changemakers from around the globe. This year’s conference topic on emotions...
View ArticleRemembering Sonny Fox
The Norman Lear Center mourns the loss our friend and supporter Irwin “Sonny” Fox, beloved television host and broadcaster and former president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He...
View ArticleClimate Change Playbook
In a soon-to-be-released study, we analyzed scripts from 37,453 TV episodes and films that aired in the US media market between 2016 and 2020 to see how often climate change content appeared. , finding...
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