Johanna Blakley is a TED speaker and media scholar at the University of Southern California, where she performs research on global entertainment, entertainment education, celebrity culture, fashion, digital media and intellectual property law. Blakley developed course materials on cultural diplomacy for the Masters in Public Diplomacy program and she teaches courses on transmedia storytelling. She is an English Ph.D. with a background in the high-tech industry, including a stint at Vivendi Universal Games.
Website: https://johannablakley.wordpress.com/