Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Janet Chrzan of the School of Nursing and the School of Arts & Sciences discusses people’s fear of food and the negative impact of diet culture.
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A paper by Nina Strohminger of the Wharton School explores the theory of benign masochism, or the “enjoyment of negative sensations for their own sake.”
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PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts appears on an episode of “System Error” to explain how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has impacted and disenfranchised women, particularly Black women.
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Louis Rulli of the Law School spoke about civil-forfeiture laws. “There's been enormous abuse of civil forfeiture, in part because law enforcement directly profits from civil forfeiture and boosts their budgets,” he said. “It can lead to over-charging—even where there’s not evidence to warrant it—in order to protect against challenges to civil forfeiture.”
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Randall Mason of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design commented on efforts to create a digital archive of Hong Kong’s culture. “Preservation is always a reflection of contemporary culture,” he said. “We have to get comfortable with the fact that if we want to communicate the past, it’s a creative process and not just a preservation process. It would be crazy not to use these digital tools.”
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Paul Farber of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Center for Public Art and Space visiting scholar Sue Mobley spoke about President Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes and proposed a new democratic process for creating monuments. “History doesn’t fit well in statues,” said Mobley. “Movements don’t fit well in summaries; they’re ongoing.”
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication said the rise of news networks like OANN stems from failed U.S. media policies. “We are typically at the mercy of unregulated, profit-driven media firms with only weak public alternatives,” he said. “Most of the public interest protections we once had—such as the fairness doctrine—are long gone.”
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication said the airing of marketing materials without adequate disclosure on news stations reflects the decline of quality local journalism. “Structural factors that create fertile conditions for such corporate propaganda include the loss of actual journalists, little regulatory oversight, and media ownership concentration, which tends to both intensify commercial pressures and homogenize media content,” he said.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen of the School of Arts & Sciences expressed optimism about a Biden administration’s approach to handling climate change. “There’s a world where Biden becomes president and we get a very good [coronavirus] stimulus that moves us towards a Green New Deal,” Cohen said. “You would be taking the steps where the U.S. could do its share of decarbonization to get us towards 2 degrees or even less warming.”
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Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice compared the effects of a system of universal basic income to the lives of lottery winners, who often receive their winnings in installments. “Whether in the U.S. or Sweden, most of [the winners] kind of keep doing what they were doing before but feel more comfortable. Most people keep working, take a bit more vacation, feel more financially secure, and that’s about it,” she said. “It suggests that the changes are not enormous, except for the fact of feeling more financially secure.”