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  • Julia Ticona awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study generative AI

    Ticona and Caitlin Petre of Rutgers University will explore how generative artificial intelligence tools affect those working in creative and cultural fields.

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  • Cerianne Robertson named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

    Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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  • In their own words: Charles R. Wright, Klaus Krippendorff, and Monroe Price

    Oral histories from these three distinguished Communication scholars are now available online in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives.

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  • Putting the spotlight on the gender gaps in digital spaces

    Sandra González-Bailón,the Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, co-edited a new journal issue quantifying the extent to which gender bias occurs and is perpetuated online and in digital media.

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  • State laws shape the social norms around vaccines—and get people vaccinated

    In an effort to understand what encourages people to get vaccinated, researchers from the Social Action Lab and the Annenberg Public Policy Center examined how state laws and policies affect vaccination rates.

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  • Eight ways to prevent and fight health misinformation, backed by psychological science

    A new report by Annenberg School for Communication’s Dolores Albarracín, Deen Freelon, and colleagues identifies effective ways to halt the spread of misinformation online, including debunking and “prebunking.”

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  • Pawel Popiel and David Elliot Berman named Marjorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund Fellows

    For their project, Popiel and Berman will conduct research on Philadelphia’s efforts to get its most marginalized communities online.

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  • Exploring life as a new doctoral student through film

    Doctoral student Nya Mbock and a crew of Annenberg School for Communication staff members made a short film about life as a first-year Ph.D. student.

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  • LGBTQ teens nearly twice as likely to vape marijuana as their peers

    High schoolers who identify as LGBTQ are at greater risk of vaping cannabis than their heterosexual peers, according to research from Annenberg School for Communication professor Andy Tan and colleagues.

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  • Aging on screen and on the page: Changing depictions of older people in the media

    A conference held at Annenberg took a deep dive into how gender, age, and aging are portrayed in the media, and the implications for society.

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