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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Emily Hund, a doctoral candidate in the Annenberg School for Communication, is quoted on how Instagram serves advertisers and audiences aesthetically and ideologically.
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Research by Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences found that white, highly educated people tend to be isolated from political diversity, rarely interacting with ideological opponents.
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Richard Ingersoll of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education was cited for a study which noted an increasingly disproportionate number of women teaching K-12 in recent years due in part to social perceptions of teaching as “feminine” labor.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen of the School of Arts and Sciences said the focus on U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialism distracts from the main features of her proposed New Green Deal. “The original New Deal, when you read about it, is super practical,” he said. “The biggest mistake is to see activist government … as ideological. It’s just a super practical approach to problem-solving. If you want to solve problems on a huge scale, then let’s actually put some public institutions to work.”
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Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited for his research on the nationalization of U.S. politics, as published in his book The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized.
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Dagmawi Woubshet of the School of Arts and Sciences analyzed James Baldwin’s literary evolution. If Beale Street Could Talk “marked a crucial turn in how the author sought to characterize the most abiding theme and moral principle of his work: love.”
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The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson discussed the role of tabloids in shaping the 2016 election. “Even as we look at extreme content and say, ‘That’s ridiculous, I dismiss that,’ it changes our sense of where the middle of the distribution of the content is,” she said. “It pushes open our acceptance of extreme content.”
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The Perelman School of Medicine’s Rahul Kohli was cited for his team’s efforts to identify drugs capable of blocking the “SOS response,” which allows bacteria to mutate.
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In an article by Dick Polman, writer in residence in the School of Arts and Sciences, Brian Rosenwald of the Fox Leadership Program was cited for his political expertise. Lindsey Graham “knows that infuriating the left and the media really poses no risk, given the nature of his state,” said Rosenwald.
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The School of Arts and Sciences’ Paul Rozin joined a panel of experts on a podcast exploring the culturally-specific logic behind which species are considered food.