In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
On election night 2018, five Annenberg alumni were behind the scenes at ABC and CBS, helping to make sense of a mind-boggling quantity of precinct-level returns and exit polling.
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Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Chioma Woko has been named to its 2018 cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars for her work as a a health communication doctoral student studying health behaviors online. She is conducting research on what factors influence people in social networks to carry out health behaviors, such as physical activity, contraceptive use, and tobacco-related behaviors.
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For the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department’s pedagogy seminar, Lingel led a collaborative zine-making workshop. The final product is currently stocked at Blue Stockings, a feminist bookstore in New York City, and Wooden Shoe, an anarchist bookstore in Philadelphia.
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Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault studies how over the last several years, bots have been regularly making headlines, exposed for posing as ordinary people in an effort to meddle in elections, harass social media users, steal personal information, and influence public opinion on behalf of governments and corporations.
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Astudy from the Annenberg School for Communication, published in Human Communication Research, shows that when vaping portrayals within commercials are reminiscent of traditional cigarette smoking, viewers are likely to associate vaping with smoking.
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Humanities professor Jamal J. Elias studies the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies in a new book, a visual representation of childhood in Islamic societies.
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Annenberg faculty members Sandra González-Bailón and Diana Mutz will both serve on Social Science One advising committees. Social Science one is a research initiative that pairs researchers with data collected by companies like Facebook, while maintaining the right to use that data in publications.
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As a Gerbner Fellow, Chan will combine new research on gay and lesbian dating app users in China with his dissertation research on dating, intimacy, identity politics and dating apps for a forthcoming book manuscript.
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