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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
A survey by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues finds that a steady flow of misinformation about COVID-19 and its vaccinations has weakened public confidence in long-established vaccines.
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The School of Nursing and the Annenberg School for Communication have partnered with New Jersey’s Camden County to create a virtual reality training video for administering the opioid-reversing drug Narcan.
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A 2022 survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that less than half of U.S. adults could name all three branches of government.
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A study from the Annenberg School for Communication found that people primarily share information on social media that they feel is meaningful to themselves or to the people they know.
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PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth and Robert H. Vonderheide have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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In a co-written Op-Ed, Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that attention-grabbing headlines could conflate the new RSV antibody injection with anti-vaccine sentiment.
Penn In the News
In an Op-Ed, Yoel Roth of the Annenberg School for Communication says that his experience of public attacks and harassment while working at Twitter was part of a larger, targeted political campaign to erode online safety and strengthen misinformation.
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A 2022 study by Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication found that Twitter, now X, gives more visibility to those with conservative ideologies than those who tend to express more progressive views.
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PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and colleagues are studying how generative AI, particularly chatbots, can be used ethically in social sciences work.
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the Texas Tribune’s layoffs reflect broader structural problems that are facing local journalism.