Mike Ananny

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.  

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Experience as a Trudeau Scholar

The Trudeau Foundation is its people, and I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate to have learned from them how and why to address important problems with humility, compassion, humour, and rigourous intellect.  The Foundation has been a kind of second home that has—especially important for a Canadian living in the United States like myself—anchored me in Canadian relationships and issues.  I’ve strengthened my connections—intellectual, personal, cultural—to the people, conversations and ideas that make Canada unique and critically important in international debates of all kinds.  My Foundation connections are life-long relationships, lenses through which I now see the world and, most fundamentally, touchstones for how smart and caring people can make differences in their communities.  It’s been an absolute privilege to have been a part of the Foundation and I’m profoundly grateful for its generosity and influence on how I understand Canada and the world.