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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
As part of the Quattrone Center’s spring symposium at Penn Carey Law, the news veterans highlighted their work reporting on issues of mass incarceration, wrongful conviction, and criminal justice reform.
The Penn Grad Talks 2024 winner discusses the three stories everyone should be able to tell about themselves.
Despite rampant political polarization, the majority of Democrats and Republicans support democratic values and oppose political violence.
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, academic director at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at Penn Carey Law, discusses the pair of cases and the consequential ramifications of a ruling.
In his dissertation research, joint communication and political science doctoral student Nicholas Dias searches for new ways to gauge voter competency.
A new study from Annenberg School for Communication’s Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed.
In their new book, Annenberg School for Communication Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and former postdoctoral fellow Kathryn Claire Higgins explore the work victims of sexual violence go through to be believed.
The Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute, a collaboration between Penn and Penn State, looks for ways to bridge the digital divide in the state—and the rest of the nation.
Across two decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center project expanded by adding scientific fact checking, translating content into Spanish, and addressing viral social media misinformation.
In an effort to understand how to reduce smoking among LGBQT+ young women, Professor Andy Tan and colleagues tested tailored anti-smoking campaigns.
Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that there’s a greater need for public broadcasting than ever before, especially as entire sectors of the commercial news media system are crumbling.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the sense of urgency around vaccination has faded as attention on respiratory viruses wanes.
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A survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center suggests that most Americans continue to have confidence in science and scientists.
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the ad-revenue business model for journalism has collapsed and can’t be replaced with paywalls.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that AI video-creation can manipulate images in ways that make them seem more real than the original artifacts.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the capacity exists in 2024 for individuals and nation-states to generate more misleading content that is microtargeted and harder to detect.
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