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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
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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“Tell Me When It’s Over,” a new book by Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine, chronicles the initial years of the COVID-19 pandemic and the mishaps of public health agencies. Recent surveys by the Annenberg Public Policy Center find that mistrust of vaccines has continued to grow through last fall.
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A study conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that the winter holiday months typically have lower daily suicide rates than the rest of the year, with December showing the lowest incidences of suicides of the year.
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A report by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center offers new evidence that winter holidays play no role in suicide.
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A survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than a third of people are concerned about either themselves or one of their family members contracting either the flu, COVID-19, or RSV.
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In a co-written Op-Ed, PIK Professor Duncan Watts argues that journalistic claims to objectivity in political news are a convenient and self-serving fiction.
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Sarah Banet-Weiser of the Annenberg School for Communication says that shows like “Call Her Daddy” can be useful for building solidarity among women and helping them understand what it means to be a sexual subject, not a sexual object.
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A study by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues suggests that public trust of a system for correcting errors in the scientific record would go a long way to building trust across ideologies.
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Doctoral candidate Sophie Maddocks in the Annenberg School for Communication says that AI fake nudes are targeting girls and women who aren’t in the public eye.
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A survey by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues finds that American trust in vaccines has fallen significantly in just a few years, even with more fact-checking and pleas from doctors in response to viral misinformation.