Mike Ananny
Credentials: Faculty Associate
Position title: Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Email: ananny@usc.edu
Mike Ananny is an Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism and, by courtesy, an Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts, at the University of Southern California. He studies how people build the digital news infrastructures, algorithmic systems, and artificial intelligence that create public life — and he tries to intervene to make these cultures and systems better serve public interests.
He co-directs the interdisciplinary USC collective Media As SocioTechnical Systems (MASTS) and the AI for Media & Storytelling (AIMS) initiative of the USC Center on Generative AI and Society, and is an Affiliated Faculty of Science, Technology, and Public Life at USC.
He is the author of Networked Press Freedom (MIT Press), co-editor (with Laura Forlano and Molly Wright Steenson) of Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press), and publishes in various interdisciplinary venues including Journalism Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Critical Internet Studies. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Microsoft Research, and holds a PhD from Stanford University and a Masters from the MIT Media Laboratory. He has written for popular press outlets including The Atlantic, WIRED, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the National Academy of Sciences. See ananny.org for more.