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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about the Lincoln Project’s outreach to Republican voters. “They’re basically mining everything you can reasonably mine from the available news cycle and the anxieties of the moment. We’ve never seen that before.”
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Paul Farber and Ken Lum of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Philadelphia’s Monument Lab spoke about the dismantling of problematic statues and the process of democratically designing new ones. People have been taught to interpret statues “as unitary and their message as unified, rooted in consensus, as opposed to rooted in a subjective decision that is only a reflection of a segment of the community that had power,” said Lum.
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Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice helped design a pilot study on universal basic income for Stockton, California, and has been studying the results of the experiment.
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Jennifer Prah Ruger of the School of Social Policy & Practice discusses her work studying national and international public health policies through a moral lens.
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Jennifer Prah Ruger of the School of Social Policy & Practice was interviewed about health inequity in the time of the coronavirus. “We need to recognize, now more than ever, given this latest pandemic, that [science] is a major area for investment going forward,” she said.
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A new book by Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication was cited. In it, Pickard argues that the government should fund a public media system to the tune of $30 billion, which “may seem large, but relative to the scale and type of problem—a first-order need on par with public health, a standing military, and other non-negotiable expenses, it is actually a modest proposal,” he writes.
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Guobin Yang of the Annenberg School for Communication and School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the Chinese supreme court’s decision to clear eight people in Wuhan accused of spreading rumors about coronavirus. The verdict “says that you can’t punish these eight people. It also reaffirms the rule that you can’t spread rumors,” Yang said. “But what is a rumor, and what is not? That’s still up to the public-security people to decide.”
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Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine was profiled for his contributions to the field of CAR-T cellular therapy.
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The School of Arts and Sciences’ Sophia Rosenfeld was interviewed about her new book, “Democracy and Truth: A Short History.” Addressing the rise of social media, Rosenfeld said, “we don’t have many tools, most of us, for distinguishing between legitimate stories and illegitimate ones, or we don’t care that much. The end result is a world of truth and falsehood all circulating, undifferentiated, globally.”
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center was cited for her book, “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know” in an analysis of the coverage surrounding an encounter between a high school student and a Native American activist at the Indigenous Peoples March in D.C.