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  • PROJECTS
    • CULTURAL AUDITS >
      • What is a cultural audit?
      • Charitable Giving
      • Criminal Justice
      • Health Equity
      • Poverty Narratives
    • ENTERTAINMENT >
      • Abortion on TV
      • Asian Representation in Media
      • Caregiving
      • Climate Change >
        • Climate Change in Scripted TV
        • Climate Change in Unscripted TV
        • Plastic Pollution
      • Domestic Workers
      • Gun Safety
      • Ideology & Entertainment
      • Immigration Representation
      • Jewish Representation
      • Mental Health
      • Native Representation
      • Technology
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      • America Divided
      • Food, Inc.
      • The Social Dilemma
      • Waiting for Superman
    • INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH >
      • Africa Research
      • Cultural Diplomacy
      • MENA Research
    • JOURNALISM >
      • Case Studies
      • Impact Journalism
      • Science Journalism
      • Virtual Reality
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Erica Watson-Currie

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Erica joined the Norman Lear Center as a Research Associate in Summer 2017. She has contributed to projects including: exploring connections between ideological values and entertainment through different lenses; investigating podcasts and transmedia in journalism; and comparison studies on media depictions vs. reality for Africa, immigration, and the criminal justice system.

Erica previously spent 2 years as a Senior Evaluator at a private firm, whose projects included NASA and NSF grant-funded STEM education projects, and educational films. She has worked as an instructor, researcher, and experiential learning trainer at the University of Southern California. Erica holds a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, along with Masters degrees in both Communication Theory and Communication Management.

Contact Erica here.

See selected reports:

  • Are You What You Watch? Tracking the Political Divide through TV Preferences
  • KCRW's Case Study Radio Voices: How One Grant Changed a Public Radio Station
  • Define American's Immigration Nation: Exploring Immigrant Portrayals on Television
  • Color Of Change's Normalizing Injustice report
  • The African Narrative's Africa in the Media study
The Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project researches how entertainment and news influence our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and actions. We work with researchers, the film and TV industry, nonprofits, and news organizations, and share our research with the public. We are part of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.