Metamorphosis

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Project: Metamorphosis

www.metamorph.org
Launched on October 30, 2007
Education / Non-Profit, Technology

Blog:Read about this project on the blog

Metamorphosis is a research project of the USC Annenberg School for Communication, based in Los Angeles, CA. Metamorphosis explores how globalization, technology, and diversity effect urban population groups.

Metamorphosis had a Web site—an old one—so this project was about updating the look and feel of the project as much as it was about getting new information out there.

Metamorphosis has long been challenged to explain themselves quickly to Web site visitors, and we decided to approach the topic with an animated explanation of just what these researchers were up to. Visitors to the site can jump quickly to a topic of subject that interests them, or catch up with Metamorphosis with the What’s New blog.

Like so many research projects, Meta faculty have published a number of books, papers, and other pieces. We worked with them to create a common organizational system so that papers were sorted onto pages of the same topic, but also accessible by type of publication.

The site is being run out of a common content management system, now, and can be updated by the researchers themselves.