In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The newly-formed Adolescence, Health, and Addiction (AHA!) Lab, led by Annenberg School assistant professor David Lydon-Staley, will investigate questions around substance use, emotion regulation, and curiosity, with a particular focus on adolescence.
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Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. and Professors Marwan M. Kraidy, Monroe Price, and Guobin Yang were four of the 31 notable scholars inducted as ICA Fellows during the 2020 Annual Conference.
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Graduating Communication major Toni Walker spent 12 days in South Africa conducting research as part of her undergraduate fellowship with the Annenberg School’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication.
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The Media, Inequality and Change (MIC) Center—a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University—along with the Media Mobilizing Project and Free Press have received a $2.6 million collaborative grant from Independence Public Media to take stock of Philadelphia’s media ecosystem and assess its strengths and weaknesses.
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The Center on Digital Culture and Society, directed by Guobin Yang, is the newest research center at the Annenberg School for Communication. It focuses on interdisciplinary scholarship that investigates all aspects of digital culture, technology, and society.
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As 2019 New America National Fellow, Jackson is looking at how contemporary black media makers and cultural workers like education journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates are challenging the mainstream ways we talk about race and inequality.
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The two-day symposium, “Confronting Inequality: Reimagining the Future of Journalism and Work” introduces the new Center, a collaboration between the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn.
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Vasudevan, who spent four years as a producer of MTV’s True Life series, plans to use her time at Annenberg to consider how data collection impacts the way that history is written and viewed, whose stories are being left out in the dominant narrative about technology and access to technology, and how to develop a more ethical approach to collecting data.
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Social scientists and psychologists have long attempted to develop strategies for intergroup conflicts, with limited success. A new paper from Boaz Hameiri offers a solution he calls paradoxical thinking, intended to shock the participants with its absurdity and cause them to reevaluate their beliefs.
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Under the instruction of Annenberg lecturer and postdoctoral fellow Samira Rajabi, undergraduate students in Memes, Media, and Meaning are diving into the world of memes to answer this question: What does this online cultural phenomenon reveal about our understanding of the world?
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